INTERNATIONAL ANTI CORRUPTION DAY 9 DECEMBER.

INTERNATIONAL ANTI CORRUPTION DAY 9 DECEMBER.

Corruption can erode human rights and increase inequalities, while disproportionately impacting women as well as the most vulnerable.

Thursday's International Anti-Corruption Day is an opportunity for all of us to reflect on our rights and responsibilities when it comes to tackling corruption.

SAY NO TO CORRUPTION

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INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN DAY 2021.

INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN DAY 2021...!

The theme of this year's International Mountain Day (IMD) on 11 December 2021 will be sustainable mountain tourism.

Save Our Mountains Save Himalaya  !

#SustainableMountainTourism

The Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO like previous years is going to celebrate World Mountain Day on the 11th of December 2021 at Pahalgam .

All  mountain and nature lovers are cordially invited to attend the same on the due date and time !

Reporting time: 10:00 am 11 December 2021 Near at Hotel Highland Pahalgam .

VENUE: MAIN MARKET  PAHALGAM

CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION:7006684562

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#SustainableMountainTourism #IMD2021 #HWOPahalgam  #Pahalgam #pahalgami #MountainsMatter

Happy International Volunteer Day 05 December 2021.

Happy International Volunteer Day

5 December - International Volunteer Day

International Volunteer Day (IVD) is celebrated on 5 December every year. This day provides a chance for volunteers and organisations to celebrate their efforts, values and promote their work among their communities, etc.
The United Nations Volunteers Programme (UNV) coordinates International Volunteer Day on 5 December every year to recognize and promote the tireless work, not just of UN Volunteers, but of volunteers across the globe. Every day, volunteers dedicate time and effort to ensure the inclusion of those often left behind, drive climate action and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

When people are encouraged to get involved in solving problems, the solutions are more likely to be feasible and lasting. Volunteers engage communities and build a people-centric movement to help build a better and safer future for us all.

For the generations of TOMORROW, we must take responsibility for the changes needed to build a better future NOW. Encouraging, recognizing and promoting volunteerism is an important part of creating a more equal and inclusive future for communities and worldwide.

In the lead-up to #IVD2021, let us celebrate the contributions of the millions who #volunteernow.

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Happy World Soil Day 2021.

Happy World Soil Day Everyone!

 the Solution to Soil Pollution!!!

December 5,2021:The World Soil Day (WSD) campaign aims to connect people with soils and raise awareness on their critical importance in our lives.
World Soil Day celebrates every year 05 December for the importance of soil as a critical component of the natural system and as a vital contributor to the human commonwealth through its contribution to food, water and energy security and as a mitigator of biodiversity loss and climate change.

“HALT SOIL SALINIZATION, ENHANCE SOIL PRODUCTION”
#HappyWorldSoilDay

Mushtaq Pahalgami ,
Himalayan Welfare Organization, Pahalgam

Lidder Forest Division Range Pahalgam organised Plantation Drive Cum Awareness Programme on Plantation in Pahalgam today.

Lidder Forest Division Range Pahalgam organised Plantation Drive Cum Awareness Programme on Plantation in Pahalgam today in collaboration with JIM&WS, Middle School Mamal and Municipal Committee Pahalgam , the plantation drives / awareness programes were at Jawahar Institute Of Mountaineering And Winter Sports  JIM & WS at Nunwanan, MC Office at Pahalgam and Middle School At Mamal Pahalgam,  in which officers of different institutions,experts spoke about the importance of plantation for a pollution free environment and for maintaining the ecological balance. Later a Plantation drive was organized in which the students and other dignitaries planted the saplings.
Among others present on the occasion include SDM Pahalgam Syed Naseer Ahmad Shb ,Tehsildar Pahalgam Dr Mohammad Hussain Shb , Forest Range Officer Pahalgam  Syed Mahsood Shah, EO MC Pahalgam Tafveez Mir  Shb , Founder and President Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO  Mushtaq Pahalgami , BO Forest Pahalgam Ghulam Nabi Sheikh, BO Forest Chandanwari Saleem Altaf Sheikh and others.

December 02,2021:An important meeting was held today at Dak Banglow Anantnag with the officers/ officials of Sales Tax Department ,Incom Tax and Finance Department.DDC Anantnag was also present in the meeting and many people across the district associated with trade bodies were participated in the meeting even many raised their issues , problems and grievances before the officers of concerned departments .We trade union bodies under the leadership of Mushtaq Pahalgami trade union leader President Pahalgam Hotel And Guest House Owners Society have raised and demanded that in future the sales tax department and incom tax department should set up facilitation centres at sub divisional levels, tehsil headquarters ,so that the masses can find solutions to their problems only at thier native places insted of the district headquarters, In order to make it easier for the people especially those who residing far-off and rural areas ... In addition, the trade union bodies of pahalgam also demand that in this year's budget, PMDP ,Village Development, Health Sector, Education and Power Sector should provide extra funds especially for the pahalgam region ,so that better progress and development can take place in the region, we also demanded that in the forthcoming budget,the government should provide financial support to the people affiliated with the tourism sector so that the people concerned with tourism sector can get due benefit.With Best Regards Trade Union Bodies Of Pahalgam.

December 02,2021:An important meeting was held today at Dak Banglow Anantnag  with the officers/ officials of Sales Tax Department ,Incom Tax and Finance Department.
DDC Anantnag was also present in the meeting and many people across the district associated with trade bodies were participated  in the meeting even many raised their issues , problems and grievances  before the officers of concerned departments .
We trade union bodies  under the leadership of  Mushtaq Pahalgami  trade union leader President Pahalgam Hotel And Guest House Owners Society  have raised and demanded that in future the sales tax department and incom tax department should set up facilitation centres at sub divisional levels, tehsil headquarters ,so that the masses can find solutions to their problems only at thier native places insted of the district headquarters, In order to make it easier for the people especially those who residing far-off and rural areas  ... In addition, the trade union bodies of pahalgam also demand that in this year's budget, PMDP ,Village Development, Health Sector, Education and Power Sector should provide extra  funds especially for the pahalgam region ,so that better progress and development can take place in the region, we also demanded that in the forthcoming budget,the government should provide  financial support to the people affiliated with the tourism sector so that the people concerned  with tourism sector can get due benefit.

With Best Regards
Trade Union Bodies Of Pahalgam.

World AIDS Day, December 01 is a day to raise awareness of and mourn the more than 32 million people who've lost their lives to the virus.

World AIDS Day,  December 01  is a day to raise awareness of and mourn the more than 32 million people who've lost their lives to the virus.
This year's World AIDS day theme is "End inequalities. End AIDS" which highlights the urgent need to end the inequalities that drive AIDS and other pandemics around the world.

The world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who lost their lives to AIDS.

This World AIDS Day, UNAIDS is highlighting the urgent need to end the inequalities that drive AIDS and other pandemics around the world.

Without bold action against inequalities, the world risks missing the targets to end AIDS by 2030, as well as a prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and a spiralling social and economic crisis.

Forty years since the first AIDS cases were reported, HIV still threatens the world. Today, the world is off track from delivering on the shared commitment to end AIDS by 2030 not because of a lack of knowledge or tools to beat AIDS, but because of structural inequalities that obstruct proven solutions to HIV prevention and treatment.
Economic, social, cultural and legal inequalities must be ended as a matter of urgency if we are to end AIDS by 2030.

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE,ESPECIALLY  WHEN SOMETHING HAS NO CURE

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Today on 12th November 2021 an important meeting was held at the Darul Uloom Jamia Zain Ul Islam Sarbal Pahalgam

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

Today on 12th November 2021 an important meeting was held at the Darul Uloom Jamia Zain Ul Islam Sarbal Pahalgam  where many important issues were discussed and some important decisions wheere  taken unanimously by the body of this institution...1.The tution fees for the coming academic session will be reduced upto  30% .
2. there will be no admission fees for new admissions .
3 .In addition the poor and deserving school students who come here for modern and Islamic education they are provided free education by the institution with  better capacity or quota has already been set for them and it will continue in future times too.
We all are aware  that Darul Uloom Jamia Zain Ul Islam Sarbal Pahalgam  is owned/belongs to entire community and we all should work together to help and support this beautiful and fruitful institution which has been established for a better purpose .Today the institution working upto middle level, tomorrow the said institution could reach upto high next higher secondary and near future the institution would be an college mean this institution will be beneficial/fruitful for generations of pahalgam region .
It is better that we all should continue to support this institution in every way and in the future this institution will prove to be the identity and proud  of this community, especially the pahalgam region  ... Insha'Allah

Mushtaq Pahalgami,
Darul Uloom Jamia Zain Ul Islam Sarbal Pahalgam

#community #education #school #students

Pahalgam: Designated as permissible in revised master plan, ecologically fragile area around golf course falls to land mafia.

Pahalgam: Designated as permissible in revised master plan, ecologically fragile area around golf course falls to land mafia 

ESS AHMAD  

Anantnag, Sep 9: Authorities might have framed new master plan for the world famous tourist resort, Pahalgam, after the old master plan which led to vandalisation andg concretization of the famed spot was rejected by the high court but the designation of the ecologically fragile area around the golf course in the later have not only left the local residents fuming but environmentalists shocked as well. The environmentally sensitive and most scenic area around the international golf course having been designated as permissible zone for constructions came to fore after the land mafia shifted its focus on the area selling and purchasing precious land for last several months. A local social activist is mulling to move the court against the wrong doing by the authorities. 

Older master plan in which the town planning organization had designated most of the scenic areas of Pahalgam as permissible areas leading to mushrooming of hotels and huts at the tourist spot was completely rejected by the high court in 2010 in response to the litigation filed by some locals. High court while declaring the master plan as full of flaws had asked the authorities to frame the new master plan for the famed spot and banned all kinds of constructions in the area. It took the authorities at least five years to come up with revised master plan. The master was finally approved by the cabinet led by the then chief minister Mufti Syed in 2015. 

Though in the revised master plan, authorities designated almost entire Pahalgam as non-permissible but the area around the golf course, which was non-permissible even in the previous master plan was designated as permissible much to the surprise of locals and environmental activists.

"Since most of the Pahalgam was concretised and vandalised in the years when previous master plan was in place , golf course and its surroundings was the only area which stood preserved to a great extent. But one wonders how the authorities in the new master plan which was framed with the purpose to save the spot from further concretization designated such a scenic area as permissible," a local social activist ,Mushtaq Pahalgami said.

He said that the designation of the ecologically fragile area as permissible for commercial constructions seems to be a deliberate move to benefit some well connected riches. 

Pahalgami also came up with a video message and sought the attention of those working on the preservation of nature towards the issue.

"We are well aware of this conspiracy and won't allow this beautiful area to turn into another concrete commercial colony," Pahalgami said.  "We appeal the honorable high court which is keeping a close watch on Pahalgam for last ten years to save this ecologically fragile area in Pahalgam from vendalisation before the land mafia defaces it," Pahalgami further said. 

Many other locals who spoke to Kashmir Times said that the sale and purchase of the precious and beautiful land in the area has picked up pace in last one year.

"Since this was the only area which was untouched for its being non-permissible in previous master plan with the blessings of the authorities it too seems to have fallen to land mafia and will soon be like other places of Pahalgam which stand completely vandalised," said another local, Shabir Ahmad. 

Sources in the PDA and town planning revealed to Kashmir Times that the area in the last hours of the finalisation of master plan was designated as permissible due to the political intervention.

"Since court was monitoring it closely people who framed the master plan were very careful and cautious in framing the new master plan but the then chief minister at the eleventh hour intervened and got the area designated as non-permissible," said a source. 

Dr Raja Muzafar Bhat an RTI and environmental activist expressed shock over the designation of such ecologically fragile area around the golf course as permissible.

"Pahalgam has already been turned into a concrete jungle. It ceases to be a hill station now. It now resembles a city due to huge concretization and all this has happened due to the poor policies of the people at helm," Muzaffar said.

He said that the concretization around golf course will not only ravage the ecology of the area bit will also deface the most scenic golf course on which crores of rupees are being spent every year. High court should take a note of it," Muzaffar said. 

Town planner, Kashmir , Gulzar Ahmad admitted that the area was designated as permissible on the directions of the then chief minister Mufti Syed."We had not designated the area as permissible but it was done on the directions of the then chief minister even after the same had been submitted to the government for approval. God knows better weather it was his vision or compulsion,"

He said that they have mentioned about the directions of the then chief minister even in the preface of the master plan 2032. 

Chief executive officer, Pahalgam development authority (PDA) , Masrat Hashim said that the matter is not his jurisdiction.

"It is the town planning authorities who can redesignate this scenic area as non-permissible," CEO said.

http://www.kashmirtimes.com/newsdet.aspx?q=112736

Finally the construction work of Modern Sub District Hospital of pahalgam has started from today.

GOOD NEWS FOR NATIVE PAHALGAMIES.

September 30,2021:Finally the construction work of Modern Sub District Hospital of pahalgam has started from today.

The establishment of this modern hospital of pahalgam was a long-pending demand of the entire pahalgam region and thousands of population could get directly benefit in health sector  ,the demand  is going to come true today for which we would like to thank the government from the bottom of our hearts. 

On said occasion, a large number of government officers  from various goverment  departments and people belonging to civil society of the region  have participated in the event, including the Hon'ble Advisor Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar Shb, Director health services kahamir Mushtaq Ahmad Rather Sahib ,CMO Anantnag Dr Mukhtar Ahmad ,BMO Sallar and Mattan ,AEE PWD Gh Hassan Najar Sahib ,JE Firdous Ahmad Mir Shb ,MO Pahalgam Dr Zahoor Shb , Mushtaq Pahalgami  Social Environmental Activist and others was present said occasion.

Civil society of pahalgam  demand/hope that the project will be completed on time ,so that the people of this region don't face many more difficulties .

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*August 28,2021: Pahalgam*Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO Pahalgam donated two wheelchairs to goverment sub district hospital pahalgam on Saturday.

*August 28,2021: Pahalgam*
Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO Pahalgam  donated two wheelchairs to goverment sub district hospital pahalgam on Saturday.
On this occasion, Tehsildar Pahalgam Dr Mohammad Hussain  Sahib was the chief guest of the occasion who has appreciated the efforts and work of Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO especially efforts of his President Mushtaq Pahalgami and he tehsildar sh expressed hope that this spirit will continue in the future times too which will make the prosperity and development of this far-flung region in better and possible way .
Speaking on the occasion, Mushtaq Pahalgami prominent Social, Environmental Activist, Founder and President of the orgnization said, that Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO is  committed to the overall  development of the region and will continue thier struggle for the betterment of society ."
A lot of work in the filed of health , education community development  has been done by HWO  ,in the future times we  will continue our efforts and work.
Medical Officer Government Hospital Pahalgam Dr Sofi Zahoor  Shb  also thanked Himalayan Welfare Organization and its leadership ,he MO  hope that  this kind of charity would continue in other hospitals too by HWO  .
Others present were on the occasion Mohd Ibrahim Raina  Sahib President Adventure Tour Operators Association Pahalgam, Jagjit Singh  Sahib Social Worker Bird Conservationist,  Fayaz Magray Pahalgam  Abdul Majeed , Moin Magray  and others .

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Happy World Forest Day 2021

Happy World Forest Day 2021 😍 😍 😍 

We should plant trees to save ourselves!

Planting trees is very beneficial to the society because trees provide a foundation to life.

Trees contribute to the environment by providing oxygen, improving air quality, conserving water, preserving soil, supporting wildlife and reduces global warming.

We should plant trees in vacant areas in our places and towns, also we should advise all to do so.

I request one and all esp people of my native area  pahalgam you  must plant a tree in your area, since today we celebrate world forest day... This will be a great tribute and  best opportunity to plant tress for the greener and sustainable tomorrow 😍 😍 😍

Mushtaq Pahalgami, 

Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO