Aiming High - Ajeesh cracks the prestigious IIT Exam

                  Born with complete blindness and knowing the hardships coming through his life, Mr. Ajeesh Rahman never stopped Aiming High in Life. With no vision also, he had a vision for his life.

                 He aims to become a (IAS) officer. And today he took his first step towards it by cracking the Entrance exam of IIT with 1st Rank and his friend Siranjivi with 2nd Rank under PWD category. Every year only 2 seats are offered by IIT under this category. He completed his schooling from St.Louis School, Adyar,Chennai. When he was in 12th he had decided to Enter IIT.

                As he was total blind he had to go through lot of hardships, he found difficult to get the Readers for the Study. He said, "Due to lack of regular readers, on an average I used to read 3-5 pages in a week, I myself with scanned pages of the book and hear with the help of text to voice conversion softwares. Technology played a very important role in my life."      
                He has applied for "Humanity & Development Studies", a 5 year Integrated MA course in IIT. He says "Technology is very important for visually impaired people. Every visually challenged should start using it as much as possible and get attached with it. The world is full of Knowledge and Technology is the only medium for them to gain it."

               He knows the hardships of the VC people and he want to bring out solutions for the same. He has his own idea and wants to be a part of Accessibility Development Team of big IT companies and share his ideas to improve the future of VC people.

              "There were many times I thought of giving up due to difficulties. But that's when you become stronger and motivated" concluded Ajeesh.

Article By - Ravikant Bellad