Via cricket, Dr Rouf ur Rafiq takes rural environmentalism to new top

Pulwama, Jan 11: It used to be in November 2022 when Dr Rouf ur Rafiq walked away with an award at Kashmir World Convention Centre in Srinagar for his leading edge practices to advertise rural environmentalism. The award used to be passed to him by way of Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha all the way through Kashmir Younger Management Summit.

Concurrently, Pulwama Gymkhana, a cricket membership based by way of Dr Rouf, used to be honoured as the most efficient crew of Jammu and Kashmir all the way through the summit.

Pulwama Gymkhana which used to be floated by way of Dr Rouf on December 25, 2016 has grow to be a family title amongst cricket fans. 

It’s recognition soared top after 9 gamers from the membership went to play home firstclass tournaments or secured contracts by way of nationwide and world cricket academies.

“The only goal of floating Pulwama Gymkhana used to be to unfastened the proficient formative years of Kashmir from clutches of exploitation and create a platform for them the place they may be able to display their skilled abilities in true festival,” Dr Rouf stated, including that it’s the best crew in Kashmir which is professionally controlled. 

He stated that Gymkhana gave a brand new impetus to the fervour of cricket in Kashmir by way of offering perfect publicity to proficient formative years. 

He added that it used to be a pattern that cricketers needed to pay from their wallet to play in tournaments they usually had been getting peanuts in go back. It had been organisers who would take pleasure in the tournaments, he stated.

“We modified that pattern, we offer a prestigious platform to our younger ability freed from value they usually earn a tight quantity, one of the crucial gamers are incomes rupees 60 to 80 thousand per thirty days,” Dr Rouf stated, including that Pulwama Gymkhana supplied a platform for greater than 100 gamers from all portions of Kashmir.

But even so selling cricket Dr Rouf combined environmentalism with the sport. He organised saffron cricket league in Pulwama in 2016. “The purpose of this event used to be to glue folks with heritage, cricket and surroundings,” he stated, including that saffron is a heritage crop of Kashmir with 16000 households deriving their livelihood from it. 

“Every time I talk over with a playfield I pressure on keeping up cleanliness at the pitch, the usage of dustbins and planting timber,” he stated, including that he needs to make playfeilds as smoking unfastened zones.

Dr Rouf has a doctorate in environmental science and is recently serving as assistant professor at Cluster College of Kashmir.