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Visually handicapped is considered as a low prevalence handicapping condition existing in approximately one in every 1000 school children population. But as per the National Sample Survey Organization the visually handicapped in India are nearly 4.005 million in chronological age of 0-14 which constitutes 0.3 percent of school children. In India, not more than 5 percent visually handicapped children receive education. A much smaller fraction of our blind adults achieve economic independence. Most of the institutions for visually handicapped are largely urban based. It is found that more than 80 percent of our blind people live in rural areas, where practically no rural services exist for them. There is urgent need to devote large resources for the development of services to the blinds in the rural areas. When vision of a person is so handicapped or impaired that to see the “E‟ clearly he has to come within 20ft. of it or nearer, he is then considered legally blind. His vision is assessed as 20/200 in the better eye. It simply means a legally blind person sees something at 20 ft. distance which can be seen by a normal at 200 ft. easily. Present study is carried out in 6districts of Andhra Pradesh.