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A visually impaired teen from Kozhikode who had to wantonness her higher secondary acquisition past world twelvemonth due to the fact that of missing survey immunodeficiency has requested Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan and Education Minister N. Samsudheen to guarantee that Braille textbooks are distributed successful clip this year.
In a Facebook station connected Wednesday (May 20), 16-year-old Aysha Sameeha urged the caller authorities to guarantee the timely organisation of Braille textbooks truthful that she could proceed her education. She had to driblet retired past twelvemonth erstwhile her Braille textbooks failed to arrive, adjacent arsenic the Plus One last exams were approaching successful March.
Last year, she was a Plus One pupil successful the humanities watercourse astatine the Calicut Higher Secondary School for the Handicapped, Kolathur. As Braille textbooks were lone disposable up to people 10, she and her household had approached the authorities to procure the indispensable books.
Her father, V.P. Siddique, told The Hindu that they had e-mailed erstwhile Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty and others, too formally applying done the schoolhouse for the textbooks. The Minister had promised to put Braille textbooks for higher secondary students successful the State.
Ms. Sameeha yet received 4 Braille textbooks, with the exams conscionable astir the corner, and her begetter was told that the hold was owed to printing backlogs. Of the four, she could not usage 2 due to the fact that they were from an older syllabus, making the household question whether they had been sourced from aged surplus stock. “As a parent, it was disheartening to spot however demotivated she felt aft that,” said Mr. Siddique.
He added that Ms. Sameeha had utilized audio survey materials, screen-reader programmes, and people notes to survey until the last exams but recovered it hard to header without speechmaking material, which she prefers to different mediums.
Braille textbooks successful the State are printed by the Braille property tally by the Kerala Federation of the Blind, which lone prints textbooks up to Class X. The property functions based connected grants and orders issued by the Department of General Education. An authoritative said that if the authorities raised their grant, which was past updated successful 2015, it would person the capableness to people higher acquisition Braille textbooks arsenic well.
When Ms. Sameeha initially requested the textbooks, she was told that Braille books were not printed past Class X due to the fact that determination were not capable takers. However, Mr. Siddique knew of 3 different students who had applied on with her daughter.
Ms. Sameeha and her household person spoken to the section schoolhouse authorities successful Ramanattukara and are awaiting the opening of single-window applications to enrol her. “Aysha truly likes speechmaking and aspires to go an English lecturer erstwhile she grows up,” said Mr. Siddique.
