Visually impaired defies all odds to score high in class X board exams

Chennai: Being visually challenged did not stop her from scoring top marks in class 10 examination this year. B.Nandini Devi, who studied at the Little Flower Convent Higher Secondary School for the Blind, has scored 483 out of 500 marks. She aspires to become a lawyer. Nandini Devi scored centum in social science, 99 in Mathematics, 97 in English, 95 in Science and 92 in Tamil.

Dedicating her success to parents and her teachers, Nandini Devi said the teachers helped her a lot by paying special attention to her in mathematics, which made her score top marks. “The school prints and provides us special books in Braille. I used to study till midnight and start my day at 6 in the morning. This hard work ensured my success. My parents used to sit with me always and help me in studies,” she said.

Aspiring to become a lawyer, she plans to take history with computer science in Plus-2. The student’s father R. Baskaran, who works as an electrician, said his daughter had been visually challenged from birth. Her mother B. Gajalakshmi, a beautician, says even though Nandi wanted to study science group she could not do, as the school did not provide science stream. “The stream is available in some other government school but as she cannot travel to that school we are joining class 11 in this school itself. ”

Asked about it, Sister Margret Sulojamabai, principal of the school, said as their school functions as a government aided one the government appointed teachers for new streams if started. “We will urge the government to appoint teachers so that we can start new branches,” she said.