Prathmik Shikshako ne Shikshan sivay ni kamgiri na sopva babat Banaskantha Jilla Prathmik shikshak sangh ni Rajuaat

Prathmik Shikshako ne Shikshan sivay ni kamgiri na sopva babat Banaskantha Jilla Prathmik shikshak sangh ni Rajuaat I was admitted to AIIMS, Delhi, on the intervention of the PM. The union government would bear the entire cost of my treatment. Soon AIIMS began issuing daily medical bulletin on my status. I was told that young people, auto drivers and road side vendors were carrying out candle march to galvanize support for me and to pray for my recovery. With the help of the best and the latest technology, gradually. I started responding to the treatment. One morning my brother-in-law (my sister Laxmi's husband), Sahib suddenly asked me, "Everest chadogi ?" He had just read an interesting piece of information in the news paper: 'No female amputee had ever scaled Everest.' I wasn't amused. "I have lost a leg and you are talking ofMt. Everest?" I started talking to myself: Ifi could take a shot at Everest and succeed, I would become the first female amputee to hold that

record ..... I thought about it for some time and then I conveyed to Sahib my willingness to take up the challenge. "Theek hai, hum karengey. "I said. I now had something to look forward to: a mission, a goal, areason to dream. It was not going to be easy. But, throughout my life nothing had come easy.

I felt like I was born again.Then I started waiting for my artificial limb to arrive. When it finally arrived, I was overjoyed. The artificial leg felt almost like my real leg. I could hardly feel the difference. I had started falling in love with this 'stranger' whom I was wedded for life. I had set my eyes on a mountain and I needed to prepare myself with the help of this 'stranger'.On 28th February, 2012, almost a year after I was pushed out of the train, I set out for the training institute set up by Bachendri Pal near Uttarkashi. I called up Bachendri Pal to tell her that we had reached Uttarkashi.

She was surprised at how quickly I had reached. After this, my confidence skyrocketed. Bachendri Pal always pumped fresh confidence in me," Arunima, you are far better than others. These people seem to be suffering from a handicap, not you; I am proud of you. But before Everest expedition you will have to prove yourself. If you climb 21,798 feet high Chamsar Kangdi mountain in Ladakh, you will be on your way to Everest." I successfully completed that expedition. By the time we reached the base camp, situated at 18000 feet, sixteen of the nineteen members of the team had retired. Bachendri Pal greeted me at the base camp, "meri sherni !" She said and took me in her warm embrace. In the evening Bachendri Pal announced that I was finally ready for Everest. She also assured me that she would talk to the officials at Tata Steel for sponsoring my Everest dream.