P. Ravichandran became the first visually challenged teacher in the School Education Department to win the Best Teacher award on Wednesday.

A congenitally blind person, he began his career in 1993 as a PG assistant and in 2012 was posted as headmaster in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Pallikonda, Vellore district, where he hadV served for 27 years.

The history teacher finished class X from St. Louis Institute for the Deaf and the Blind in Adyar, Chennai, and class XII from Don Bosco, in Katpadi.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Chennai / by Special Correspondent / Chennai – September 06th, 2018