Suman Ranjit. Picture by Ashok Sinha

His legs and a hand are dysfunctional but his eyes are fixed to a goal.

After climbing down the 29m high Golghar twice, Suman Ranjit (41), a polio-affected person would make an attempt for a world record of climbing down the 76m-high (250ft) Biscomaun Bhavan using two ropes on August 31.

Ranjit has already climbed down the Golghar in a similar act in 1994 and 2006. He said no differently abled person in the world has done a rope-climbing act on such a high structure before. “I would be sending a formal application about the act down the Biscomaun tower to Guinness Book of World Records and Limca Book of Records. This would be a first that a disabled person would climb down such a high structure using ropes,” said Ranjit.

Purnima Shekhar Singh, the wife of chief secretary Anjani Kumar Singh, was all praise for Ranjit’s courageous act.

“It is amazing and inspiring to see a differently abled person performing such an adventurous act. Youths should learn from his motivation and inculcate similar level of determination in their lives,” said Purnima.

A wheelchair-ridden adventure enthusiast, Ranjit said: “The act would be divided into two parts. First, I would climb down from Pind Baluchi floating restaurant on the 18th floor to the terrace on the eighth floor. Thereafter, I would complete the second part of my act and climb down to the floor. I would complete the entire exercise in 30 minutes. This act would be comparatively difficult than my earlier acts of climbing down the Golghar using ropes.”