The 16-year-old, however, did not allow the adversity to become his weakness, and went on to pass the Class 10 exams with flying colours. Suhaib scored 72 per cent marks in his Class10 exams held in November last year, despite facing odds.
Life has come a full circle for Suhaib Nazir, who suffered vision impairment in one of his eyes when security forces fired pellets to quell a violent mob in Pulwama district of south Kashmir in July last year.
The 16-year-old, however, did not allow the adversity to become his weakness, and went on to pass the Class 10 exams with flying colours. Suhaib scored 72 per cent marks in his Class10 exams held in November last year, despite facing odds.
"I lost my eyesight but I did not let the flame of knowledge to stifle. I kept the flame of education aglow at all costs," said Suhaib.
Suhaib has undergone three surgeries in his left eye yet he has not regained his vision fully. Such was the determination of the teenager that he decided to postpone his surgery and write his papers to save the academic year despite facing difficulties in November last.
For Suhaib, education is the only means to achieve big in life and that is why he decided to give it a try by appearing for it, despite not been able to concentrate fully, given his vision impairment. He did not opt for a writing assistant and wrote his papers on his own.
Suhaib gives absolute credit to his parents for the support which ultimately helped him in pursuing his dreams. "My parents told me to write the papers and not worry about the results. It is a big morale booster for me," he said.
Hospital figures reveal that over 1,100 people, mostly teenagers, have suffered injuries in their eyes when security forces fired pellet munitions to quell the violent mobs across Kashmir during the last five months of the separatist sponsored unrest.
"Three pellet victims had appeared for the Class X exams in Pulwama district. We had provided them helpers (writing assistants). One of the victims however had not opted for helper," said Syed Rouf Ahmad, joint secretary of Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education.
Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, Professor Zahoor Ahmad Chatt said, the facility of providing helpers to pellet victims would continue in future too.
The summer unrest had dealt a crushing blow to the education system in the strife-torn Kashmir Valley in 2016. The Economic Survey Report of Jammu and Kashmir government has revealed that normal schooling could be conducted only for a period of four months in the Kashmir valley last year due to the unrest. Colleges remained closed after July 8 resulting in loss of study for 130 days and more.
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