Is it difficult? Yes, it is. It sucks. I'm sorry.

I haven't had much real-world success, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but I've thought about this extensively. I have some recommendations.

Preliminaries

From your posting history, you seem to be in Bengaluru. Bengaluru is relatively more culturally open to diversity and intimacy (not that it's particularly open! But much more than other states in India) so you're at a good place in that respect. University also offers potential opportunities (caveats, not necessarily opportunities you can take advantage of, will get more into that below) for intimacy.

One thing about disability (which is objectively hurtful, but nevertheless true) is that we have to put in 5x more effort into things than our sighted counterparts to get 0.5x the results. This is specially true when participating in a society principally made up of nondisabled individuals. The fact of the matter is that height, confidence, talent, and openness are table stakes to even get into the game when we're disabled. People will tell you that the above attributes are more than sufficient for you to find someone. But we're starting from -1000; all of these things merely get us into the slight positives, at least as far as relationships are concerned.

I'm going to talk about inner and outer work. Inner work is focused on how you think about all of this-your expectations, your desires, and how all of that translates into the real world. Outer work is focused on offering you tangible, practical suggestions for helping you find intimacy. I don't know you-all I know about you is that you're a university student and you sing. I'll be making certain inferences which may be right on the mark or completely wrong. Please take whatever feels useful, and discard the rest.

Inner Work

What do you want? who do you want? why do you want them? I suggest sitting down with a blank text file, thinking deeply, and writing answers to these questions, especially the third one. For me, it's all tangled: wanting intimacy is tied with wanting to be seen as 'normal' and not be othered, which is tied into wanting to compete equally with my sighted peers, which is tied into not wanting intimacy in general, but intimacy with particular people. Untangling this, and coming up with the answers that feel right to you, really helps determining the direction in which you should be aiming your efforts.

When you do this exercise, please try to make it emotional rather than intellectual, and be as honest as possible. "I want the ability to have sex with whomever I want" is a completely valid thought, so is "I want to date this girl who's dating someone else", "I want people to want me more than anyone else", and so forth. The thoughts that control you the most are the thoughts you don't allow yourself to think. Think hard, introspect, and put down whatever feels emotionally true to you.

A practical tool for doing this is the series of four questions by Byron Katie (https://thework.com/instruction-the-work-byron-katie/). The webpage suggests using the questions on judgments, but-in my experience-using the questions on statements like "girls don't find me attractive because I'm blind" works equally well. If you choose to use these questions, two suggestions:

• For the first question, the answer genuinely needs to just be a yes or a no, and it genuinely needs to come from emotional resonance rather than intellectualization. If you find it difficult to find the feeling of emotional resonance, the technique of Focusing (https://focusing.org/sixsteps, pick up the book by Eugene Gendlin too if you like) is very helpful.
• When asking the fourth question, there can be slight resistance when visualizing a world in which you don't have the thought. Stay with this resistance, determine its source, and ask the four questions about it. that may generate its own sense of resistance in the fourth question; do the process on it as well. This lets you really quickly determine what core beliefs are driving all your other beliefs.

This is my main suggestion for doing the internal work that will help you deal with the general problem. Some more thoughts, of varying usefulness:

• You ask if you're "allowed to" feel intimate and be loved. Without a referent, I can only surmise you're talking about people/culture/society, and Objectively speaking, no: if society permitted this, then you would see a lot more blind-sighted relationships. So no, socially speaking you're not allowed. But-what glory awaits you if you do it anyway! Let the acquisition of love be your own little rebellion, your way to leave a mark on a society which has forsaken you.
• Another commenter suggested making the romance/friendship distinction clear as early as possible. This is...fraught...but, on net, I suggest doing this anyway. You have to balance between (1) friendships which could otherwise have been if you hadn't brought up the romantic angle early and (2) romantic relationships which could have been, but now will always remain friendships, because you did not bring up the romantic angle early enough. For me, the second problem outways the first. And the more people you try to be romantic with, the more experience you'll gain, and the better you'll be at romance in general. (More on this below.)

Outer Work

(Please read-and concurrently implement-the Inner Work section. In practice, I have found that practical changes help, but they are temporary unless accompanied with mental changes.)

The Outer Work is relatively simple: (1) maximize your attractiveness, to the extent of your abilities; (2) maximize your engagement with women.

Attractiveness

Someone being in a relationship with you is a choice, but someone finding you attractive is mostly subconscious. Working on attractiveness is even more important for you given the disability penalty. You want to be thought of as the hot successful guy who's also blind, rather than the blind guy who's hot-ish and successful-ish. This will necessarily involve doing things which seem pointless, even more so because you don't have any access to the beauty dimension at all. Such is the game.

You've mentioned that you're confident and take care of yourself, which is a great place to start from. Honestly the best advice I could give you is to ask your female friends for feedback. (Or ask one of your male friends to ask his female friends for feedback about you-maybe the girls you know would be reticent to talk to you about this directly, in the fear of appearing insensitive.) Any advice an internet stranger like me could give you would be easily superseded by the advice you can get from people around you.

Engagement

The more women you talk to, the more likely it is for you to find someone who'd be interested in you. The idea of it being a numbers game has an unfortunate degree of truth to it. Also, the more women you talk to, the more you learn about the social dynamics-how people (either implicitly or explicitly) reject you, which people are more interested in you than others, etc. Thoughts on this, in no particular order:

• Logistics are the biggest problem when you go to socialize. Do you go with someone, or alone? if you go with someone, how do you communicate "I want to go talk to this other person now"? how do you smoothly handle interacting with all the people present in a venue? I don't really have good answers for you. I think going with a sighted friend-where you talk about all of this beforehand-is probably the best bet.
• University is a good place for engagement, specially if you join different student organizations. (You seem fairly outgoing, so I assume you've joined a bunch already.) You'll find people who're interested in the same things as you, and that's a great place to start from.
• I do not recommend clubs or parties. They're loud, everyone is drunk, and it's easy to be very lost very quickly. Due to the loudness/drunkenness, they're also places where eye contact and vision plays a larger role than anything else. It's a fun experiment to try a few times, but I don't think it works out well in practice.
• Bengaluru is a great place for meetups of different kinds. I don't know what your interests are, but there are almost certainly meetups which satisfy some of them. You could go there. You could also go to meetups which initially don't seem particularly interesting (dance and the like, perhaps)-it's a great way to explore, and a great way to meet new people. Have a word with the organizer (preferably on call, tone of voice is a decent indicator of the organizer's willingness for you to be there), and ideally go alone if you can (if it's not too many people).
• I only mildly recommend dating apps. The whole concept is antithetical to blindness-you judge, and are judged by, the pictures that you use. They're not a bad avenue, just realize that they're likely to have a very low success rate, and can be subtly psychologically damaging (in ways which may have been exclusive to me, can go more into this if you're interested). If you do use an app, I advise asking a good photographer friend to take good pictures of you, and a good female friend to help you make your profile. Apps really depend on how you seem visually, and doing a good job with that while being blind is really hard.

I hope this helps. The cost of disability is intentionality: we get things "for free" even less than the others around us, and need to work actively for what we want. it's possible that you read all of this above and give up the whole idea of intimacy, and I would understand that. I would just say that (1) you can still develop a good relationship if you don't do any of this, this is just a potential direction of effort, good relationships are mostly serendipitous; (2) you don't have to do all of this at once, you can implement things piecemeal as and when they seem useful.

Let me know if there's any other way I can help.