Deaf & Dumb students excel

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 8: The School for Speech and Hearing Impaired, Jammu has got cent percent result in Board’s Middle class examination, the result of which was declared by J&K Board of Secondary Education yesterday.
All the 21 deaf and dumb students who appeared this year’s examination were declared successful.
A well-known NGO- J&K Samaj Kalyan Kendra, Jammu is running the school imparting formal and vocational education free of cost. This is the only such school in the State.
Three students have got ‘A’ grade securing 81 per cent marks (162 marks out of 200). The top position in the School has been shared by Pardeep Kumar, Mehak  Mehra and Utsav Gupta.
Ten other students got B1 grade securing marks in the range of 71 % to 80 %. One of them, Sneh Verma missed ‘A’ grade by just two marks while two others –Munisha Devi and Arti Devi missed it by three marks.
The President of the Samaj Kalyan Kendra, KB Jandial has commended the impressive result of these Specially Abed children whose cent percent result can proudly be compared with any other more fortune students studying in  Govt. and Public Schools which have much better infrastructure and high salaried teachers. He and the Management Committee of the NGO have announced a cash award of Rs. 2000 to all the students who shared the top positions. They also lauded the effort of the Principal Roshan Bhan and all teachers for better results.