For 18-year-old Anoop Kumar, disability was never an excuse to not aim high or perform well. Breaking all stereotypes, the Humanities student from the Delhi Public School in RK Puram scored 93 per cent in CBSE Class XII examinations. He also scored full marks in history.
In fact, the visually challenged student was quite confident of scoring above 90 per cent. "I was sure that I'll score above 90 per cent marks in my boards, but I never thought that I will score full marks in History," he said. "I want to study law in future and want to work for the betterment of the society," said Kumar, who originally hails from Jharkhand.
On being asked about the challenges he faced, the ever-smiling Kumar, as his teachers call him, said: "I wanted to study Maths and Economics but due to an unattainability of study material in these subjects for visually challenged students, I had to drop them," he said.
Similarly, for the family of Sonia Singh, another visually challenged student from the Amity International School in Noida, who performed equally well in the board examination and scored 90 per cent, it was a "dream come true".
"We are so happy for her achievement. Never ever in my dreams had I thought that she would score so well in her boards. She is visually challenged by birth and it was really difficult for us to arrange for facilities for better education," her father Madhav Singh, a plumber, said.
Nazrul Islam, another visually impaired student of Shaheed Hemu Kalani Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya in Lajpat Nagar, scored 80 per cent marks. "I was thrilled to know my results as I was not expecting such good marks," he said.
Islam's 80 per cent score may not open doors for him to top Delhi University colleges, but he has other plans. "I want to be an activist and would like to serve the society. We don't have enough money to go to a private university. I wish I get some scholarship," he said.
