Defying visual impairment, they do brilliant results

Two visually impaired students of Saptibari High School in Aditmari upazila under the district have set laudable examples by obtaining brilliant results in this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations.

Mokhlesur Rahman, son of late Anwar Hossain of Dhalai village of Hatibandha upazila, obtained golden GPA-5, while Mokaddes Hossain, son of Alamgir Hossain of Bangram village of Sadar upazila of Lalmonirhat district, obtained GPA-5 from humanities group under Dinjapur Education Board.

“I want to be a professor of English. I study regularly in my room with proper supervision of our resource teacher. We the visually impaired students get the opportunity to read our textbooks as these are written in Braille system. But we also need sufficient books on general knowledge and a variety of subjects written in the system,” said Mokhlesur.

He had also obtained talent-pool scholarship in the Junior School Certificate (JSC) examinations.

Mokaddes Hossain said he wants to be a lawyer.

Both of them are residents at a 10-seated shelter home for visually impaired students, set up at Saptibari village of Aditmari upazila in 1996 under the Comprehensive Blind Education Programme of Social Welfare Department.

The beneficiaries of the shelter have been doing good results in PSC (Primary School Certificate), JSC and SSC examinations every year, sources said.

"Despite visual impairment and poor family background, Mokhlesur Rahman and Mokaddes Hossain have achieved brilliant results. Now they need proper help and assistance for continuation of their higher studies," said Ershad Ali, resource teacher of the programme.

"Mokhlesur and Mokaddes always did well in classes and school examinations. We feel proud of their brilliant success in the SSC," said Tayez Uddin, headmaster of Saptibari High School.