Sarvendriyanaam Nayanam Pradhaanam, goes the adage meaning that the eye is the most important of all organs in the body. India with its nearly 1.2 billion population needs a lot of eye care and hence there is an unmet need for eye donation. India is largely rural nation with innumerable health hazards, one of them being the ailments of the eye encompassing all ages of people: children, young and old. Objective: The study aims to assess the knowledge and attitude of the undergraduate medical students of Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati regarding issues concerning eye donation. Materials and Methods: Cross sectional study, Study Population: Undergraduate medical students of Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati. Study Period: May and June, 2013. Sample Size: Prevalence of 50% is considered, for which, the sample size comes to 384, considering an allowable error of 5 %. This shall be rounded up to 400. Predesigned, pretested, semi-structured questionnaire developed for the purpose, containing questions about demographic details, awareness of eye-donation, sources of information and their reasons for donating and not donating eyes. Majority (53 %) of the students were in the age group of 19-21years. (25.25%) were in the age group of 22-24years, (21.75%) in 16-18years.The mean age of all students was 20.7 years 1.76. Of the total respondents, 39% were men. Conclusion: The limited knowledge of medical students about eye donation is likely a result of a paucity of teaching on the subject of eye donation in the undergraduate medical curriculum.