Really super, I want such opportunities here in Delhi also, I request many NGOs in delhi to take initiative, here in delhi also there are very brilliant blinds, in this regard Score Foundation George sir can take initiative.
On 2/18/15, Vishnu Ramchandani <[email protected]> wrote: > CHENNAI: In the relatively quiet 'news monitoring' corner of the 3-month old > Tamil TV channel, News 7, sits a young man absorbed in the screen before > him. Ears enclosed by a pair of stereo Sennheiser earphones, 22-year-old > Arun Bose monitors Sun TV, marking an hourly update of the channel's > newscast on an Excel sheet. Ask him what's trending today and he says Sri > Lankan's president Maithripala Sirisena's Delhi visit and the fuel price > rise. Four other young men sit around Bose, monitoring the news, but while > they have their eyes glued to their screens, Bose has his ears tuned in, for > he is partially blind. > > About two months ago, Bose was recommended for the job of news monitor by > Karna Vidhya Technology Centre (KVTC), a training-cum placement institute at > Guindy that teaches visually challenged persons to work with computers and > internet technology to improve their career prospects. Having mastered > office automation there, he interviewed with News 7 and copped the job, > working an 8-hour shift there. > > Bose, a graduate of Malayalam Literature, from Kerala, has lived in Chennai > for a year is pleased with this, his first career break. At the News 7 > office, amid the high-decibel whirr of TV cameras and crackling airwaves > Bose and his four colleagues are tasked with monitoring three Tamil news > channels outside their own: Sun TV, Thanthi TV and Puthiya Thalaimurai. "I > have to check for breaking news, frequency of repeats, number of exclusives > and special stories," says Bose, who relies on the screen reading software > JAWS to file his reports. > > His boss, editor-in-chief Rajesh Sundaram, says Bose stands for the kind of > inclusive workspace the young News 7 wishes to build. "Bose is on par with > his colleagues, and we've made no special concessions for him," says > Sundaram, who plans to continue hiring persons with disabilities. > > Once he clocks out, Bose, who lives in a mansion at Choolaimedu, says he > usually returns to his room to surf the internet and listen to music. Only > two months into the job he says he hasn't yet decided if he wants to make > his future in media. "Perhaps banking because it's secure," says Bose, > drawing attention to the narrow expectations both the visually impaired and > recruiters have come to form about career choices. > > K Raghuraman, professor of English Literature at Government Arts and > Science College, Nandanam, and coordinator at KVTC says he isn't aware of > another visually challenged person hired at a TV channel in Tamil Nadu. "We > want to prove that almost every sector can accommodate the visually impaired > provided their workspaces are accessible," he says, "We want to step beyond > the traditional sectors of employment for the blind, like teaching and > banking, and want to break new ground in IT and the media." Surrounded by > breaking news in the newsroom and helping track it, Bose, knowingly or not, > is doing just that. > > Source: > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Partially-blind-youngster-breaks-new-ground/articleshow/46280474.cms > > regards, > Vishnu > Information transmitted by this e-mail is proprietary to Mphasis, its > associated companies and/ or its customers and is intended > for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may > contain information that is privileged, confidential or > exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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