Hope you all remember Geeta - sign name.
You may know about the Salman Khan starrer movie Bajrangi Bhaijaan,
in which the girl comes to India by mistake and wants to return to Pakistan.
In the heartwarming movie, Salman Khan manages to drop her back to Pakistan.
Geeta's story is very similar.
She spent 15 years at the Edhi Foundation in Pakistan.
In 2015, the then Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj brought Geeta back to India from Pakistan.
so that she can be reunited with her parents.
However Geeta has not found her parents or life partner as yet.
In India Geeta lived in Indore, Madhya Pradesh with a Deaf School named MBS.
She stayed there for 5 years and learnt many things.
As per her wish, she was shifted to Anand Service Society.
A video became viral which showed an emotional Geeta leaving MBS after 5 years. Have a look at it.
The video showed a man asking Geeta through an interpreter, how she felt learning computers?
To which she replied, she felt good learning.
When she goes to ASS she will not sit idle and will try to use what she has learnt and develop herself.
Geeta was very emotional while meeting everyone at MBS.
She says, “I love all of them, I am worried, I will keep coming to meet everyone.”
She also tells them not to cry and not to worry.
She also thanks her teachers.
MBS was founded in 1974 and has been running ever since.
Founder and Management Representative of IDBA is Dr. Usha Punjabi - sign name -
She said, “Geeta is shifting to ASS from MBS.
I don’t want people to have any doubts. I will tell you clearly what happened.”
Dr Punjabi said, "Geeta came to MBS in October 2015. She will soon complete 5 years with MBS in October 2020.
She was interested in studying, cooking, dancing, jokes etc.
She stayed in the hostel with other girls, joked with them but also did her work.
Now that Geeta is leaving, everyone became emotional on seeing her cry.
We can never forget her.
Dr Punjabi also said that, since the last 4 months the coronavirus has spread across the country.
There were quiet a few students staying in the hostel during the month of April & May.
But slowly the students started going back to their parents houses.
Geeta too began missing her parents.
She would keep asking Dr Punjabi about her parents.
She was adamant on meeting PM Modi, actor Amitabh Bachchan and would constantly ask about it.
They then sent emails to PM Modi and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister.
However, there was no response.
Geeta felt very bad because the number of girls in the hostel has reduced to only 3.
She became very worried.
Dr Punjabi said, “We did not know what to do so we wrote to the Social Justice Department
and asked them to solve Geeta’s problem.
After a long wait, they finally called Geeta along with their President and another teacher.
The department then helped them.
Dr Punjabi said, "Mr. Purohit was called there and after the discussions,
Geeta was shifted to his centre Anand Service Society.
Mr. Purohit said he will help her find her parents.
MBS was responsible for her studies, development, etc.
It was the government’s responsibility of searching for her parents.
Whatever the government told us to do, we did.
Now the Social Justice dept. agreed to move her to Anand Service Society.
On 20th July a car came for her from the Social Justice Department
but we sent her in our school car along with all her belongings to the dept.
and from there she was sent to Mr. Purohit’s place.”
MBS is only following government orders.
If Geeta is happy there, we are happy.
We from MBS pray that she finds her parents and lives a happy life."
In her message Dr Usha also mentioned that,
there were lots of doubts among the deaf about Geeta being shifted due to her being unhappy.
She said that this was not the case. It was Geeta's wish to move and now she is happy.
Helping out fellow deaf individuals is of most importance.
She said that we all must pray that Geeta’s parents are found.