Teacher wheels TV set to students’ homes near Sirkazhi
The Hindu
He enables children to access government-run Kalvi TV
A middle school teacher here has bought a flat-screen television set and fastened it to a wheelchair to take it around the streets to give children access to Kalvi TV, the government’s educational channel.
The teacher found that at least 50% of the students of the Panchayat Union Middle School, Nimmelineppathur in Sirkazhi, did not have access to any educational material and decided to take matters into his own hands.
A majority of the residents of Nimmelineppathur are migrant labourers who travel to other States for work. The remaining are farmworkers. Their children are left with their relatives when the parents go to work. In many houses, there is no television set, and the families that have one do not have the money to recharge or pay electricity bills.