Ethiraj College offers full scholarship to visually impaired student

Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, has extended afloat assistance to J. Kaviya, a visually challenged pupil who scored 565 marks successful the Class 12 State Board introspection this year.

Kaviya has taken up English Literature for her undergraduate course. She was welcomed into the assemblage connected Wednesday by V.M. Muralidharan, Chairman, Ethiraj College, successful the beingness of S. Uma Gowrie, Principal and Secretary, and Beulah Jebakumari Suganthi, Vice Principal.

Quite aboriginal successful her childhood, Kaviya was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a familial upset that caused the light-sensing cells successful the retina to gradually die. “We initially got her admitted to LKG successful a mainstream school,” recalls Prema, her parent and a housewife. “Gradually, aft her imaginativeness loss, determination was precise small prime but to nonstop her to a peculiar school.”

Kaviya did her full schooling successful Little Flower Convent Higher Secondary School for the Blind successful Nungambakkam wherever she stayed successful the hostel. “The teachers were each adjuvant and a fewer of them truly encouraged me,” she says, adding: . “They are each my favourites.” Other than studies, the students astatine the schoolhouse went done mobility drills, Kavya recalled.

After graduation, she wishes to look for competitory exams and prosecute a vocation successful civilian services. She has already begun negotiating with her parents astir surviving with her friends, portion her parents privation her to enactment astatine the assemblage hostel. “We are disquieted astir her safety,” says Jayakumar, her begetter who is simply a accepted artisan weaving silk sarees utilizing handloom successful Kancheepuram. “We privation her to enactment astatine the hostel astatine slightest for the archetypal year.”

Mr. Muralidharan said that the assemblage was capable to supply astatine slightest 20 specified discretionary scholarships each twelvemonth acknowledgment to immoderate disciplined fiscal planning. Marks, often, wasn’t the astir important metric for selecting beneficiaries, helium added.

Apart from this, the assemblage has astir 100 endowments running, the interests from which screen a important portion of the beneficiary student’s expenses, said Dr. Uma Gowrie. Besides, the Trust besides provides astir Rs. 20 lakh each twelvemonth to beryllium arsenic distributed among meritorious students of each disciplines arsenic a reimbursement, she noted.