KOLKATA: Ballygunge resident Jeeja Ghosh has broken many ceilings and has had many firsts. The 48-year-old added one more to the list ultimate week, turning into the primary particular person born with cerebral palsy in Kolkata — and most likely India — to change into an adoptive mother.
Motherhood was a dream that Ghosh, born with the situation, nursed since she tied the knot in 2013. But little did she know concerning the hurdles she must face sooner than being thought to be are compatible for adopting a five-month-old girl. Last Thursday, after an epic struggle, Ghosh welcomed home a girl child — lovingly known as Bhujungu and Sonai at home — to her ninth-floor flat at the Saptaparni complex on Ballygunge Circular Road.
Ghosh, a Presidency College graduate and Delhi University postgraduate, and her husband, Bappaditya Nag, a law officer of Syndicate Bank, implemented for adoption in 2016. Madhusmita Nayak, programme manager for the specialized adoption agency venture at Keonjhar’s Self-Realisation Mission (SRM), from the place the child was adopted, mentioned the infant was born in January 2018 and was abandoned at a Keonjhar clinic. “We don’t find out about her organic folks,” Nayak mentioned.
It was love in the beginning sight for the couple when they noticed the yet-unnamed child at SRM. But it needed a couple of journeys to Keonjhar to persuade the adoption committee that Ghosh could be a accountable care-giver. “We submitted a are compatible certificates from a gynaecologist but even after that the committee advised us this certificates was not acceptable because it needed to be issued through a ‘scientific practitioner’,” Nag mentioned.
It was an uphill struggle since then and, after numerous mails and reminders, the couple in any case escalated the matter to Dr Sadaf Nazneen, consultant (japanese region), Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).
Parents in finding queries intrusive, officers say no intent to hurt
On Tuesday, Dr Sadaf Nazneen, of CARA advised TOI, “It must be checked whether or not the couple is emotionally, physically and financially appropriate to undertake a kid. This was the primary case the place a mother or father with cerebral palsy was fascinated about adoption. It will remain as a reference level for different such applications in long term. Some questions may have appeared uncomfortable but they were perhaps requested to judge the suitability of the family adopting the infant.”
Jeeja Ghosh and her husband, then again, don't buy this argument. “I felt so humiliated with the questions they requested. The district child protection officer described cerebral palsy as a ‘mental disease’ and expressed apprehensions about my conversation skills. I fail to know how anyone in that place could have such concepts,” Ghosh alleged.
TOI spoke to the officer, Debangana Barik, who mentioned she “did not want to harm” Ghosh at all. “My language issue may have created an issue. I am very impressed along with her character and he or she is completely are compatible to take care of the infant. Her adoption case is a success story for all of us here,” Barik added. But the new folks’ criminal work continues to be not over. Bhujungu is, legally, in Ghosh’s and Nag’s foster care presently. “We are going to record a courtroom software in Keonjhar quickly and, inside 60 days of that, we think to get the order that may make us her criminal folks,” Ghosh mentioned.
The Saptaparni flat has passed through a sea change, with nappies, oil fabric and feeding bottles strewn far and wide the drawing room. Both folks are on depart now. Bhujungu has a twinkle in her eyes when Ghosh rocks the pram. She tilts her head after which lazily rests her little toes at the pram take care of. Friends and relatives are shedding through steadily with cartloads of items for the toddler. Nag, too, is an entire hands-on father, from feeding Bhujungu to cleansing her when she soils herself. Ghosh’s octogenarian mother, a dementia patient, is overjoyed. Seated in a wheelchair on the subject of the pram, she intermittently utters the infant’s title aloud. On rare occasions, when reminiscence serves her right, seeing Ghosh and her daughter is a reminder for the previous woman of her personal motherhood tales of combating against odds to bring up a daughter.
Motherhood was a dream that Ghosh, born with the situation, nursed since she tied the knot in 2013. But little did she know concerning the hurdles she must face sooner than being thought to be are compatible for adopting a five-month-old girl. Last Thursday, after an epic struggle, Ghosh welcomed home a girl child — lovingly known as Bhujungu and Sonai at home — to her ninth-floor flat at the Saptaparni complex on Ballygunge Circular Road.
Ghosh, a Presidency College graduate and Delhi University postgraduate, and her husband, Bappaditya Nag, a law officer of Syndicate Bank, implemented for adoption in 2016. Madhusmita Nayak, programme manager for the specialized adoption agency venture at Keonjhar’s Self-Realisation Mission (SRM), from the place the child was adopted, mentioned the infant was born in January 2018 and was abandoned at a Keonjhar clinic. “We don’t find out about her organic folks,” Nayak mentioned.
It was love in the beginning sight for the couple when they noticed the yet-unnamed child at SRM. But it needed a couple of journeys to Keonjhar to persuade the adoption committee that Ghosh could be a accountable care-giver. “We submitted a are compatible certificates from a gynaecologist but even after that the committee advised us this certificates was not acceptable because it needed to be issued through a ‘scientific practitioner’,” Nag mentioned.
It was an uphill struggle since then and, after numerous mails and reminders, the couple in any case escalated the matter to Dr Sadaf Nazneen, consultant (japanese region), Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).
Parents in finding queries intrusive, officers say no intent to hurt
On Tuesday, Dr Sadaf Nazneen, of CARA advised TOI, “It must be checked whether or not the couple is emotionally, physically and financially appropriate to undertake a kid. This was the primary case the place a mother or father with cerebral palsy was fascinated about adoption. It will remain as a reference level for different such applications in long term. Some questions may have appeared uncomfortable but they were perhaps requested to judge the suitability of the family adopting the infant.”
Jeeja Ghosh and her husband, then again, don't buy this argument. “I felt so humiliated with the questions they requested. The district child protection officer described cerebral palsy as a ‘mental disease’ and expressed apprehensions about my conversation skills. I fail to know how anyone in that place could have such concepts,” Ghosh alleged.
TOI spoke to the officer, Debangana Barik, who mentioned she “did not want to harm” Ghosh at all. “My language issue may have created an issue. I am very impressed along with her character and he or she is completely are compatible to take care of the infant. Her adoption case is a success story for all of us here,” Barik added. But the new folks’ criminal work continues to be not over. Bhujungu is, legally, in Ghosh’s and Nag’s foster care presently. “We are going to record a courtroom software in Keonjhar quickly and, inside 60 days of that, we think to get the order that may make us her criminal folks,” Ghosh mentioned.
The Saptaparni flat has passed through a sea change, with nappies, oil fabric and feeding bottles strewn far and wide the drawing room. Both folks are on depart now. Bhujungu has a twinkle in her eyes when Ghosh rocks the pram. She tilts her head after which lazily rests her little toes at the pram take care of. Friends and relatives are shedding through steadily with cartloads of items for the toddler. Nag, too, is an entire hands-on father, from feeding Bhujungu to cleansing her when she soils herself. Ghosh’s octogenarian mother, a dementia patient, is overjoyed. Seated in a wheelchair on the subject of the pram, she intermittently utters the infant’s title aloud. On rare occasions, when reminiscence serves her right, seeing Ghosh and her daughter is a reminder for the previous woman of her personal motherhood tales of combating against odds to bring up a daughter.
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