We thought some people need encouragement ,esp those who want to do something to improve the society!!!
March 20,2018: We feel proud to have identified 6 recipients for the first edition of the Himalayan Green Awards, 2018, for the six categories, Environment, Education, Education and community development, Social work and community development Print media and Electronic media. The awards would be presented to the recipients in an event shortly.
1. Environment: Lidder Forest Division , for played an indispensable role in fencing of Pahalgam Forest Ranges various compartments and thus preventing their misappropriation by the land mafia in the name of 60C gazette .
2. Education: Dr Simin Akhter Naqvi, Assistant Professor, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi, for helping us through unwavering academic and intellectual collaboration to further the cause of education for local children, especially girls' education in the region.
3. Social work and community development: Abdul Khaliq Rather @ Khala Peer, for dedicatedly and tirelessly working to make the teaching of Arabic and now of modern education, available to local children, especially children in far flung areas of the region.
4. Education and community development: Principal,Mohmmad Afroz Baba Shb, Principal, Govt. Higher Secondary, Pahalgam, for his steadfast efforts and resolve to successfully turn around the fate of Pahalgam's higher secondary by bringing many positive changes in the curriculum, pedagogy and administration of the school, in his capacity as the principal.
5. Electronic media: Mudasir Qadri, Journalist, for his very creative, thoughtful and much-needed efforts to promote region's local tourism and culture and thus help revive and sustain the tourism industry which is the mainstay and source of bread for a vast majority of people here.
6. Print media: Saahil Suhail, Journalist, for his fearless defense of the truth and his honest writings especially on the subject of illegal state and forest land grab and land-encroachment in the region, despite persistent threat by local politicians , for which he didn't only have to face the wrath of the local land mafia but also had to face false allegations and successfully fight a battle in the courts of law.
Apart form this, more than 60 teachers are also being presented with certificates of honour for their extraordinary role in spreading the importance of environmental activism in school, and for helping students and the school administrations maintain clean and green environments. A number of social workers, community leaders and trade union leaders are also being presented with certificates of honour, in recognition of the general role and significance of societal service to wider social development and upliftment. We once again congratulate each one of the recipients, thank them for their efforts and wish them all the very best ahead. Finally, there were also a number of other people who were deserving of felicitation and honour, and their not getting the awards this year doesn't mean we do not appreciate their efforts. We do hope they continue to serve the society in the times to come so we can duly include them next time. Looking forward to a sustained and meaningful engagement in all future endeavors.
Press and Publicity,
Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO
