In a developing country like India, building government hospitals is not enough to improve the level of eye healthcare required in rural and slum population and to eliminate avoidable blindness. The present status of primary eye care can be improved by identifying ocular problems at the community level, early referral to the primary and secondary eye care centers, and physically transporting the needy patients to such centers. National rural health mission (NRHM) was launched by the Government of India to cater to the health needs of the villages and underprivileged populations. To form a bridge between the underprivileged and health resources, a new brand of the community-based worker, named ASHA (accredited social health activist) has been appointed. They are selected from the village and slum area itself and are trained to serve as an important interface between the community and the public health system.[123]The ASHA workers played an important role in the success of NRHM schemes like Janani Suraksha Yojana by identifying, referring, and physically accompanying pregnant women from their area to PHC or CHC for safe childbirth. They play a significant role in improving hospital delivery in India. Moreover, ASHA workers get incentives for their community services.[3]The health department of India in collaboration with WHO and various NGO'S have started numerous schemes to reduce the burden of avoidable blindness. But somehow the targets are far from reach. The ASHA workers can play an important part in providing better eye healthcare to the largely rural and underprivileged population of India. At present, more than 9 lakh ASHA workers are working in 33 states of India. Thus, by developing an apt induction training module for them approximately 90 crores, people can be benefitted. And the best one module which can be used in India is the Kirkpatrick module which is mainly based on four primary components, namely, reaction, learning, behavior, and result.[123]ASHA workers serve as a bridge between poor and primary eye care services and many NGOs like Sightsavers. By acquiring proper training and providing few basic types of equipment, the ASHA workers can identify patients with vision less than 6/60 then these can be referred to primary eye care centers for the provisional diagnosis and further management.[12]Incentive schemes like paying 400 INR for every cataract surgery done and 100 INR for every spectacle made to ASHA workers motivate them and they happily walk the extra mile for the success of various eye care projects for the needy and ignorant people.[2]The eye care centers taking help of ASHA workers have observed a growth in the OPD as well as the surgical workload. Looking at the success of this model, CEO, Sightsavers Shri RN Mohanty said, “ Observing the overwhelming response, we would like to continue to work with ASHA workers so that we can reach to a maximum number of needy people.”[123]The main causes of vision impairment in India are still cataract and refractive errors, both of which are a preventable cause of blindness. So better coordination of health services combined with the ASHA project can pave the way in decreasing the prevalence of avoidable blindness in our country on a large scale. The major hurdle observed are lack of monetary benefits for ASHA workers and less interest by the local females to opt as ASHA worker. The health system by developing suitable training modules and paying satisfactory incentives to ASHA workers can do wonders to improve the overall reach of healthcare facilities available to the rural and slum population. In Hindi literature, ASHA means hope so these workers need to keep bringing the light of HOPE in the form of better vision among the rural and underprivileged population in a developing country like India.