Indomitable Azam sits for university admission test

Born without legs, Mostahid Azam sat for the honours admission test at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) in Dinajpur on Monday.

Defying the challenge, he has continued study with an aim to be a teacher.

“Seeing Azam’s eagerness to study, we enrolled him with a local primary school. Despite his physical problem, he attended classes regularly,” said his father Md Abdul Momin, a farmer of Boyra village in Dinajpur’s Nawabganj upazila.

Azam passed his SSC in 2016 with GPA 4.69 and HSC from Birampur Degree College last year with GPA-3.87.

He is third among four siblings.

His eldest brother Monjurul Islam is a schoolteacher while another brother Monirul Islam runs a drugstore in the upazila.

Talking with this correspondent on Tuesday, Azam said he does his daily chores himself.

“I came to HSTU, around 90 kilometres from home, alone for attending the admission test on Monday. As I can’t travel by bus due to my physical problem, I went there on a battery-run three-wheeler,” said Azam, who uses his hands for movement.

After his examination was over, a team of HSTU unit of Bangladesh Red Crescent brought him out of the campus on a stretcher and helped him to get on a battery-run three-wheeler for going home. 

Expressing hope that he would get chance to study at HSTU, Azam said, “I have come all this way with the support of my family members and neighbours. I want to become a schoolteacher.”