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Civil Services exam
topper, an ardent RTI activist
Sunday, May 09, 2010 08:20:01 PM,
Aamir Nowshahri, IANS |
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New Delhi:
For Shah Faisal, the first Kashmiri to top the civil services
examination, joining the country's most elite service may have been
his biggest dream, but there is another subject very close to his
heart - the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
"The RTI act is a harbinger of change. We can make a difference if
we know how to use it," said Faisal, a doctor from the remote
district of Kupwara.
An RTI activist since his college days, he has been associated with
the Jammu and Kashmir RTI Movement, an NGO started in Kashmir by two
doctors-- Muzaffar Bhat and Sheikh Ghulam Rasool.
The NGO works at the ground level to make people aware about how
they can use the RTI act for their benefit.
Faisal is keen at getting a posting in his home state so that he can
make his contribution towards popularising the RTI act.
During his college days, Faisal also started contributing write-ups
to local English newspapers in Srinagar. He mostly wrote on social
issues and RTI.
When asked about Faesal's writings, Majid Maqbool, who worked with
Srinagar-based English daily Greater Kashmir as sub-editor, told
IANS: "The most exceptional thing about Faesal's write-ups was that
they needed no editing. He always knew what he wanted to say and how
to say it."
He has come up with inspirational achievements throughout his life.
Faisal was the first student ever from Government Higher Secondary
School, Sogam -- his alma mater -- to score a distinction in the
matriculation exam. He took the exam in 1998.
"I was the first student from my village to score more than eighty
percent marks in class tenth," Faisal told IANS.
Commitment to a task assigned has been Faesal's hallmark form an
early age. "He actually went out during exam hours to get a
logarithmic table from the market when the invigilating authorities
failed to provide one for the mathematics paper in the matriculation
exam," added Muneeb, a childhood friend.
Faisal appeared for the state medical entrance exam three days after
his father's killing in 2002. He qualified with flying colours, much
to the surprise of many around him.
"It was unbelievable that he could secure a good rank in the exam on
the day of the Rasm-e-Charum of his slain father," Mohammad Yahya, a
high school friend of Faisal told IANS.
"I decided to put the loss behind me and move ahead in life," is
what Faisal had to say about the tragedy that struck him at a
crucial point in his academic career.
At the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) too,
Faisal was an exceptional student, who also took an active part in
extra-curricular activities. His all-round capabilities saw him
being elected to the post of general secretary of the college
students' union.
"He was good at whatever he did. Anybody who knew him from close
circles would not be surprised at his success," said Shumail Bashir,
Faesal's senior in college.
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