taken from the hindu/thamil nadu.
It was more than a dream come true for 10-year-old visually impaired
schoolgoer T. Sriramanujam to don the role of a news presenter on
television. At 5pm
on Friday, the boy became probably the first visually impaired
newsreader in a satellite television channel based at Coimbatore. "I was
trembling with
fear when I read the first news. But, on reading it, I gained confidence
and read the remaining 30 news items in my half-hour slot covering
topics such
as national, sports and entertainment news," he said. The news team of
the channel extended support to the boy to help him learn the art of
reading news
over the last three days, before the news was finally recorded on
Friday. The boy from Paraipatti village in Palani is the son of a couple
who are farmers.
He started listening to news from the time he turned nine-years-old. The
boy, who is now staying in a hostel at Thondamuthur, studies with 22
students
in the government school for visually impaired students. Overjoyed by
the opportunity he said he would read news for the channel at 5pm on
Fridays. G.K.S.
Selvakumar, Chairman of Lotus News Channel, said that the channel became
the first to introduce a transgender as a news reader. "The transgender
reader
Padmini Prakash (40) reads news at the 7pm slot everyday. Following
successful outcome of the earlier attempt, we made an attempt to involve
a visually
impaired news reader," he told The Hindu. It was then the idea of
involving a school student struck him. "We have seen many families where
visually impaired
children are not sent to school. Those boys and girls, denied education,
were left to depend on others for a living," he said and expressed
confidence
that such parents would be motivated by Sriramanujam. The news team had
to play a very important role in making this effort successful. While a
team was
preparing Braille scripts for the boy, the other trained him to face the
camera though he could not see the cameras, lights and the recording
process —
and it was quite a challenge for them too.
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