allahabad rakshabandhan changed saritas life she lost three limbs both hands and a leg in an accident involving a power cable at her mamas maternal uncle residence on rakhi festival a few years ago but she has not let disability deter her determination and today she inspires others with numerous awards in her kittysarita dwivedi is a 17yearold girl presently studying in class nine in kendriya vidyalaya at old kent here inspite of her disability she has no hands and only one leg with a mutilated foot she makes beautiful paintings using her sole limb she has been awarded by then president of india a p j abdul kalam with bal shree samman in 2005 and won the national award of best creative child girl awarded by vicepresident hamid ansari in december last she has even won a silver medal from the ministry of culture egypt for her talent an incredible girl sarita uses her foot to perform all the daily activities like brush her teeth eat food write and even paint she even ties rakhi to her brother with her foot her zeal and enthusiasm is amazing she is raring to go recounting the terrible incident she told toi it was a rakshabandan day on august 10 1995 when i went to my maternal uncles house in auraiya along with my mother i was only four years old and as i was playing with my cousins after tying rakhi on their wrist someone told us that there was a monkey on the roof we all rushed to the roof to see the monkey there on the roof a 11000 volt electric cable was hanging loose which suddenly engulfed me she was pulled away from the wire and immediately taken to the auraiya hospital and then shifted to kanpur where her three limbs were amputated in order to save her life later she was taken to artificial limb centre pune where her mutilated foot was operated as saritas father vijay kant dwivedi is in the army she kept moving in accordance with his transfersi began my primary education at home i studied at mohan das karamchand gandhi school in kanpur followed by kendriya vidyalaya in pulgaon maharastra there i developed interest in painting she saysthen her father was transferred to allahabad here she joined painting classes at jawahar bal bhavan the teachers here recognised her talent and advised her to participate in kanpur zonal painting competition from there she was selected for national painting competition at delhi and then chosen for bal shree sammani was awarded bal shree samman by then president of india abdul kalam at rashtrapati bhawan it was the most memorable day of my life she gushes sarita aspires to be a famous painter in future i do not want to be dependent on my parents when i grow up she adds in fact she has plans for them when i start earning i will send them for a religious trip to all the pilgrimages