31-03-2016
Case Study: laltu pal
Personal Information
Name: LALTU PAL
Gender: MALE
Date of Birth: 15 November 1977
Nature of vision loss:
Lost vision in childhood and became 100% Blind.
Address: Village & PO Benipur, PS
Magrahat, Dist South 24 Parganas PIN 743355
Contact No: 91 9830712858
Education
Passed Xth WB Board Examination from Blind
Boys’ Academy, Ramakrishna Mission Narendrapur, Kolkata 700103.
Passed HS XI-XII WB HS Council Examination
from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata 700103.
Passed BA with Bengali Hons, MA in Bengali
and BEd from Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Present occupation
Employed since 2008
as Assistant Teacher, Mathurapur Arya Bidyapith H S School, after qualifying in
the School Service Examination conducted by the Government of West Bengal,
Kolkata.
Family life
Laltu’s father
late Gobindo Pal had a poultry business. His mother Ruby Pal is a housewife.
Laltu married Bandana Pal aged 32 years a sighted graduate who chose to remain
a housewife. Laltu has one son Abhigyan, 2 ½ years old with normal vision whom
Laltu teaches with the help of his laptop.
Contribution of SVH
In the words of Laltu, “From my BA studies in 1999 I took
support from SVH till I completed my MA course of studies 2004. If I hadn’t
received the audio books in cassettes at that time I would have had to spend a
lot of money and waste time to achieve my educational goal.”
SVH’s assessment
Laltu first came in contact with SVH during our annual
Mountaineering Training program at Himalayan Mountaineering Institutte,
Darjeeling, under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, in 1997 when he along with three of his Blind
classmates were deputed by the Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys’ Academy,
Narendrapur, Kolkata.
Completing his HS he reported to us for education support
and he was given resource-support to our utmost capacity.
After a long gap, toward the beginning of this year 2016
Laltu came to place requisition for digital books and Braille books. He was
informed that the material is ready and on 28 March 2016 Laltu came to SVH
Library to collect his reading material and with a special request. He needed a
computer program with visuals and sound to enable him to teach his sighted son
through his laptop.
With The Hans Foundation
support it was possible to supply Laltu
the digital books, Braille books and the software “Bengali Rhymes” applying which he will be able to teach his
sighted son Bengali alphabets.
From SVH collection of tactile books gifted by Clearvision, UK we handed him a children’s inkprint book with
Braille adaptation.
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| Laltu Pal on right. Left is Ambarish Sen (Blind and a beneficiary of SVH) , Lecturer in English, | Barasat Government College. |
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