Qandeel school starts admissions

First-ever educational institute for visually impaired opens in Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI:

The first educational institute for visually impaired children in Rawalpindi region has opened admissions for completely and partially blind children where almost all facilities are free with a monthly stipend for the students.

The Government Qandeel Secondary School has been established in the largest Kalyan Das Hindu temple of the garrison city that offers many facilities for free with quality education, Pervaiz Akhter Principal Qandeel Secondary School Pervaiz Akhtar told the media while announcing that admissions were open for visually impaired children.

Akhter said the people bearing visually impaired wards were requested and encouraged to send their children to Qandeel School to get an education. He added the school was for boys as a separate school for girls was established in Shamsabad.

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The principal said that the school offered free education, books, uniform, school transport, hostel, food, vocational training, low vision facility with magnifying glasses for partially blind children, recreational tours, sports facilities along with mobility and orientation facility.

There was a modern scientific method of teaching, computer labs, highly qualified teaching staff in the school, he said, adding, the students were also paid a monthly stipend of Rs800.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 29^th, 2021.