Arunima to set up sports facility
Arunima Sinha
Former state volleyball player Arunima Sinha, who recently scaled Mount Everest despite being an amputee, is keen on setting up a multi-sports facility for physically challenged athletes and has requested the UP government to help out in realising her dream project.
“(Uttar Pradesh) chief minister Akhilesh Yadav had in the past promised me to help in setting up of the academy. Before starting the Everest expedition I had met the CM and he promised me that once the expedition was over he would help in realising my dream of setting up an academy for physically challenged and poor children,” Arunima said in Delhi on Sunday.
“I am hopeful that the CM will fulfill his promise,” she said. In fact, Arunima has already started the groundwork for her dream project by purchasing land in Unnao district of the state and wants to set up the facility there.
Arunima had a tragic accident in 2011 when she was thrown off a train in Bareilly, UP, as a result of which her left leg had to be amputated below the knee by the doctors in an effort to save her life.
But the gritty girl has emerged stronger from that ordeal.
“I was completely shattered after the incident and people started calling me helpless. I wanted to remove that helpless word. Therefore, I thought of taking the toughest challenge in the world,” she said.
Arunima, who hails from Ambedkar Nagar district in UP, is deeply thankful to the first Indian woman to climb Everest, Bachendri Pal, who trained her to accomplish the feat.
“Bachendriji supported me at every step. She put her faith in me at the time when I was not even able to walk properly.”
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