With the adaptation of the western lifestyle there is a continuous increase in diabetes mellitus cases in India. The complications of diabetes mellitus can be broadly classified as microvascular and macrovascular complications. Diabetic retinopathy is one of the microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus and a major causes of preventable blindness among the working age group. And diabetic nephropathy is one that has a causes of preventable renal dysfunction among the working age group.there is evidence that that longer diabetes duration, hyperglycaemia ,elevated blood pressure are risk factors for diabetic retinopathy in view of the above said we did a study to evaluate the incidence of diabetic retinopathy in cases with renal dysfunction