By M S Nazki
There are many stories that are very familiar to other people and have appointed values for one and each. Such as some events also happen which somehow give a consciousness or a lesson to the life. It is so correctly said that a work can hardly be identified or mentioned under the light or dark by a name, but it has generally been happened that one’s work becomes one’s name. It is true that it becomes a recognition and an identification. A name is born first. It is also a fact that if the senior officer of a department is committed and fully ready to fulfill his official duties and assignments then all the officers under him are also agile, tolerant and careful to do their duties in good atmospheric conditions . One such example was seen by the people of Pir Panjal region when the forests of Pir Panjal region were engulfed in a terrible fire in the month of May and June and even just before a week. In order to save these forests from this dangerous fire, the officers of the Department of Forest and Social Forestry and other various concerning teams along with volunteers. They were seen risking their lives to put out the fire. Among them was a brave, faithful and dignified officer the DFO Naveed Iqbal can be seen at all time. In the social media platforms, there have been several videos and images of the Divisional Forest Officer Poonch Naveed Iqbal in which it can be clearly seen that he himself has been extinguishing the terrible forest fires. This brave and handsome officer has been instructing all his officers and brave men to prevent the fire from spreading at all times. While Naveed Iqbal was trying hard to minimize the risk of the Green Gold, he was constantly worried about the lives of all his employees and the burning life of the tress,plants,herbs,shrubs , animals and lot more. According to Fire Extinguishers and other national and international experts, the speed of a forest fire is much faster than a normal or small fire and is quite dangerous and deadly. Because the source of forest fire is the forest itself, although the reasons for the forest fire may be anything. Extinguishing forest fires is not an Auntie’s Room Job.In fact, it is very deadly job. But this brave officer reached the middle of the forest without caring for his life, supervised the sophisticated fire fighting ‘Operations’ and participated in hundreds of fire fighting campaigns . The people of the region, especially, the Pir Panjal, have highly praised the bravery, courage and masculinity of this officer and termed him brave, Sympathetic and the Best Officer (SBO). Also, the people have requested the central and local i.e. Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir government, especially to LG Manoj Sinha to reward this officer with an important award for his good work. Experts say that if an officer’s work are even only his try is appreciated by giving him a reward, the work force of the officer is doubled. Indeed the DFO, Naveed Iqbal fully deserves one of the most important honours of the country as well as Union Territory-J&K.