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Blind since six, Tamil Nadu man repairs mixies by touch
COIMBATORE: Sureshkumar, 32, picks up a mixie that a man brought to his
repair shop in Coimbatore, identifies the problem and has it running
again, all in 15 minutes. What's the big deal? Suresh is completely blind.
He runs a service centre for mixer-grinders, washing
machines, refrigerators and LPG stoves all by himself on
the Kavundampalayam-TVS Nagar road. When TOI visited his shop
on Tuesday, Suresh was busy repairing two mixies. He deftly took the
appliances apart, identifying the wires and moving parts by touch
unfazed that the power was on. He listened to the appliances running to
diagnose the problem.
Suresh said, "Initially people hesitated to give me their
appliance for repairs, but once they saw the quality of my work
they started to trust me. Now I service double-door
refrigerators .. washing machines, mixer grinders, ceiling fans and gas
stoves.
Suresh lost his vision after a bout of brain fever when he was barely
six years old. He attended a government school for the visually
impaired till Class V but dropped out after that. "I lost hope
initially. Then my elder sister Revathy approached an electrical goods
service at Saravanampatti in Coimbatore city more than a decade ago
and requested them to allow me to learn the trade," Suresh said. That
was the turning point.
Krishnamurthy, the man who owned the service centre, was patient with
Suresh. He would give the youth the different parts of mixer grinders,
washing machines and refrigerators and explain what they were. Over time
Suresh learned to tell them apart by touch. He also proved a dab hand at
coil winding.
The first appliance Suresh repaired on his own was a mixer grinder. "A
pushplate was damaged and I replaced it. I can't describe what I felt
when the appliance ran smoothly. It gave me a new confidence that I
could live my life independently," he said. Six months ago, Suresh
picked up the confidence to branch out on his own and opened ' Mari
Electrical'.
A big local electrical appliances store gives him a lot of gadgets to
service and repair. Suresh said he asks people to use UPI to pay him
as he cannot identify the value of currency notes. He's planning to
learn braille to overcome this. He now aspires to set up an institute
to train visually challenged people.
"I can teach visually impaired people to repair electrical goods so
that they don't have to travel on trains and buses begging for alms,"
he said. Suresh said he makes enough to put food on the table and pay
the rent for his shop and the house he shares with his mother K Maheswari.
Source:
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