“Amin Academy Bunjwah, An asset of Bunjwah that gives unsung heroes across Jammu and Kashmir”
Across the erstwhile district Doda, Bunjwah is having its own status and figure in various fields, where reowned spritural, religious preacher, KAS and KPS Administrators across Jammu and Kashmir. Having too much natural beauties, evergreen forests, springs, tourist spot, lofty mountains, fertile brains and many more. Among all this, Bunjwah is having an asset in the education sector under the name of “Amin Academy Bunjwah” established in the year 1998 and recognised by Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education upto 8th class and having enrolled of students more than 400 that have given unsung heroes across Jammu and Kashmir. The institution from its establishment have progressed best at the best in providing better education, physical activities, social and moral character to the students hailing from poor and middle-class families on a very low fee structure.
The institution is being run by a bold lady Mrs Zahida Shabir, despite of strong family resistance, when she was married two decades back to a distant village Jawalapur in Bunjwah, a place nestled in between lofty and snow-capped mountains and had to reach her house by walking more than 06 km on feet on a hill lock from Kewapull @Glody. No roads, No Communication, No means of entertainment, and full of fears whether a girl brought up in an urban atmosphere could ever adjust in simple and rural society that too was one of the remotest and backward regions of the then district Doda.
Zahida Shabir married to Shabir Ahmed Butt than Patwari in Revenue Department and now Lecturer in Urdu posted at Government Higher Secondary School Binoon began her journey with a scratch and rose to the zenith of success. Zahida Shabir, after being denied and cheated by Officers, Political Nexus, She couldn't get her RET job thrice despite having merit and she didn't give up and started her own journey.
Starting her own school in two rooms of the deserted structure made of mud and wooden logs. By leaps, bounds and herculian efforts, the school today is one of the best institutions in the entire Jammu division with two more branches in the adjoining villages. The best part is that the school has hundreds of orphans and poor students who are given free education and all other facilities. The institution is having its own building of 16classrooms, 01 Office, 02 Examination Halls, 04 Toilets, 60X80 feet playground, 22 staff members including teaching, non-teaching, sweepers and peon among which all the expenses are beared upon the low collection of fees.
The institution has been getting top positions in board exams with a continuous trail of Number One for over a decade now. I am proud of being a student of Amin Academy and salute the journey, intelligence, dedication and belief in Mrs Zahida Shabir. It would be an injustice not to mention her ever-loving, caring husband Lecturer Shabir Bhat who stood like a rock beside her since this hard-working couple are the real-life heroes who are having dedication toward the welfare of society. While addressing in morning assembly prayers the principal of institution Mr. Ghansara Singh laid stress upon students that your competition is on National and International level and you have to achieve the goal.
The institution is now a day became an asset for Bunjwah that provides basic education to students of entire Bunjwah and had created a historic example of serving the society.
{ The author is Freelance Journalist, Columnist and Human Right Activist from Kishtwar Jammu and Kashmir and can be reached at freelancershafqat@gmail.com , 09419974577 }
