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Title First Name Last Name

Mrs. Dilafrose Qazi

Fathers Name Date of Birth

Gh. Mohi ud Bhat 21-06-1962

Gender Mobile Number State

Female 9419009881 Jammu & Kashmir

District Address Profession

Srinagar UmerabadZainakote Social Worker

Srinagar
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Brief Write-up on the Work Done by the Nominee *

Mrs. Dilafrose Qazi, Noble Peace Prize nominee of 2006, having a track record of
33 years in Techno-social upliftment of the society in general and down trodden
women in particular is running technical institutes, namely SSM Polytechnic,
SSM College of Engineering .Besides this for the benefit of violence affected
children and orphans in the Valley of Kashmir , J& K State she is running a
number of free / charitable schools. She is fascinating, highly innovative, brave
and energetic with wide vision and deep perception to accept any challenge to
stand like a rock for carrying on her mission of serving the down trodden,
destitute and neglected people.

Since her youth, Dilafrose has been passionate about driving education across
Kashmir and eradicating illiteracy.

She braved the bullets of militants and survived many attempts on her life. To
choke her voice and subdue her dreams, her husband and brother were
kidnapped many times during abnormal and militancy period in J & K.

She has travelled many places across the world to attend many National and
International Seminars and Conferences. She is a member of several International
NGOS like PUGWASH WISCOMP and CDR (Centre of Dialogue for
Reconciliation). She is also the Secretary for Kashmir Affairs of J& K Forum for
Peace and Reconciliation.

Mrs. Dilafroze Qazi has been awarded the famous Peace Star Award by the
Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA)- a prestigious institution
of USA for her efforts in building communal harmony in February 2015.

The then Advisor to the Hon’ ble Governor J&K State (Former VC University of
Jammu) and internationally renowned academician Dr. Amitabh Mattoo in an
official statement said, ‘‘Dilafrose is an extra-ordinary woman who has against
all odds not just survived but succeeded. She has the courage and conviction to
go against tide and to be a great entrepreneur as well.’’

Her remarkable contribution is that she promoted technical and professional

education in Kashmir region by virtue of which running a prestigious Institutes
which produces number of engineers, technocrats, administrators, managers and
other professionals annually for meeting the growing manpower requirements.

Area/Field/Sector/Domain of Work Done *

She supported, encouraged and motivated the women folk to run their own
business thereby enabling them to live respectful life. She financed many
destitute women for purchasing small assets in order to start home based
business and cottage industries.

Number of Years Working in the Field*

33

Impact/ Outcome/ Contribution of the Work Done *

From the beginning her mission was to empower women to develop an

empowered society. Reaching far-flung and border areas of Northern Kashmir
she trained hundreds of downtrodden women in different vocational trades to
empower them for earning their livelihood with honour and dignity.

She supported, encouraged and motivated the women folk to run their own
business thereby enabling them to live respectful life.

In early 2000 she distributed high breed cows amongst women who had been the
victims of violence in district Kupwara besides she also donates rice, other
eatable items, clothes etc among the needy people during their annual festivals.

Her endeavor has always been to assign priority to the women for their
education and employment after acquiring requisite educational qualifications.

There is almost 100 percent recruitment of women folk in all her organization
working at class 4th level who are today holding confident position and
command good respect in the society of their locality.
Details of Any Awards or Honors Received by the Nominee*

S.No Award Year of Type of Field Awarding

Name Award Award Authority
1 ACHA 2010 National Communal Association for
PEACE Harmony & Communal
STAR Welfare of Harmony in Asia
AWARD Women (ACHA)
2 BABA 2016 National Women Dr. B.R.
SAHEB Empowerment Ambedkar
NATIONAL & Education International
AWARD Foundation
3 Astitwa 2017 National Contribution to Archana
Awards literacy Foundation

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Dilafrose Qazi was born in a poorly literate family-no one had, in fact, been to
school. Dilafrose’s father made leather garments, and her mother wove shawls.
With her mother determined to educate her two sons and two daughters,
Dilafrose studied at a local Government school where education was imparted
free she had keen interest in education therefore continued her studies against all
financial and social constraints till she acquired Masters degree in education and
Degree in law from Kashmir University. Not preferring for any Government job
which was easily available those days, she started a small venture in rented
premises in 1988 wherein she started classes for girls and housewives in the
vocations of cutting, tailoring , cooking, and typing and shorthand. That was also
the year she was married. Her venture picked up, but the beginning of the armed
separatist struggle in the Kashmir Valley a year later became a hurdle for further
growth. Since Dilafrose had no other source of income, she had to shell out
ransom to keep her classes going, and her husband was kidnapped for a while.
In 1994, Dilafrose procured land in the backward Baramulla district, inhabited
mainly by the Shia community, to help them get an education. That small
institution is now a grand Engineering College imparting Technical and
Professional Education at Undergraduate & Post graduate level. Dilafrose also
started a free primary school in 1996 in the village Divar Parihaspora in
Baramulla district. In 1998, she opened another school in the village Sumbal in
Dangarpora. In 2001, Dilafrose started a free primary school at Kunan Poshpora
in the Kupwara. She organized self-help groups for the traumatized women,
giving each a highbred cow helping them run a dairy farm.

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