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Our Auditorium : Geeta Girdhar Sabhagar

 

Highlights

 

This is a state of the art auditorium which can accommodate 286 persons, and is equipped with:

  • Ergonomically designed pushback seats

  • Centrally air conditioned

  • A world class light and sound system

  • Audio visual projection facility

  • Boosts itself with a seating capacity of 286 members

  • Separate green rooms for male and female

  • Ample and safe parking facility for over 70 cars and an equal number of two wheelers

  • Well-furnished pantry with cooking and refrigeration facility

  • Clean and safe drinking water

  • A well maintained lawn with arrangements for snack / meal breaks

 

The auditorium is environment friendly in as much as it is equipped with a solar power generation system which not only caters to the needs of the entire Sansthan campus but also feeds surplus power back to national power grid.

This proud possession of the Sansthan caters not only to the needs of the institution but is also made available to others who use it and make a donation.

 

History

 

The Geeta Girdhar Sabhagar has a history of its own. Long back the founder of the institution Late Geeta Bajaj had a dream -that her Bal Mandir should have its own proper Sabhagar or Auditorium. Once she was done providing sufficient infrastructure for all classrooms, laboratories, library etc., she concentrated her energies and resources on fulfilling this dream. She collected funds from wherever she could, including donating her own salary (which she was paid from the school, being a teacher) surviving only on her government Freedom Fighter’s pension.

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Finally the construction of the auditorium commenced sometime in 1993-94 and it was ready towards the first quarter of 1995. The then President of India Late Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, whom she knew from her student days at the Benares Hindu University, readily agrees to inaugurate the auditorium. However destiny had something else in store for Geeta ji : even as finishing touches were being given to the Sabhagar, disaster struck - a small act of carelessness on part of a worker who seems to have been smoking a cigarette and left a burning match stick under one of the curtains, led to a huge fire, and the entire insides of the auditorium were burnt and reduced to ashes.

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The shock was too much for Geeta ji, who suffered a massive brain hemorrhage a few weeks later and went into a coma. After fighting for her life for almost three weeks, she left this world.

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The years kept ticking by,  and eventually, it fell to the third generation of Geeta ji to revive its fortunes. Her grandson Gurdev Singh, under the able guidance and support of Justice N. K. Jain (retd.) as President, and other members of the management team, was able to gather together the financial resources and technical expertise to undertake this massive and complex assignment of rebuilding the auditorium. The final product is a state-of-the-art, world class theatre, which Late Geeta ji would be proud of.

 

Eventually, the completed auditorium was inaugurated on 6th April’2018, by the well known and popular stage and music artist Padma Shri Shekhar Sen, also the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Academy, in a glamorous function. It was christened the “Geeta Girdhar Sabhagar” in line with the wishes of the family of Mrs. Geeta Bajaj –  Late Girdhari Lal Bajaj was Geeta ji’s husband, whose sad and untimely demise at the young age of 21 years put the brave lady on a different track and shaped her future life in the decades that followed this tragedy.

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