CULTURAL TRUST KUPWARA

CULTURAL TRUST KUPWARA has been established in the year 1973 by a group of learned scholars lead by Dr Zahid Sogami who was the first academic to have been awarded the Ph.D in History in the then tehsil Kupwara. Though he did not live long but the candle of social,cultural and literary activities in the form of Cultural Trust Kupwara survived on.
Cultural Trust Kupwara is one of the oldest and registered organisation of the Kashmir Valley that has been serving the society in academic, educational and social awareness through seminars ,symposia,mushairas and other literary activities on its own and also in collaboration with the Department of Information J&K and Academy of Art, Culture & Language,Jammu and Kashmir. This literary organisation publishes two journals -one in Kashmiri language  known as IMKAAN and one in Urdu known as ANJUMAN. This organisation has almost a hundred  members. The organisation does not receive any funds for carrying it's literary activities in the district except for the membership collected annually from its basic members. The funds used to be received from the Cultural Academy previously but for last many years nothing was alloted to it for the cultural activities.
Mr Ayub Khan Dilber is presently the serving President of the Trust.
It is worth mentioning that the Cultural Trust Kupwara is now an amalgam of almost 13 local organisations whose members are included in the Cultural Trust for a time frame of 02 years and then replaced by the new members of their respective units. These include the Executive Council as well.

Other office bearers of the  Executive Council of Cultural
Trust  Kupwara are:

1. Ayub Khan Dilber
 Punzwa Villagam
 President Cultural Trust Kupwara.
 also President of the Local unit
Anjuman e Fikr o Fun Ramhal
Retired Lecturer English
M.Sc Geography;M.A English;B.E
Writer/poet /Critic and Translator.
7006832925

2. Mir Dardpuri
Dardpora Kralpora.
Patron Cultural Trust Kupwara.
B.A ;B.Ed
Retired Master
Author of 12 books[poetry and translation of some plays of Shakespeare in Kashmiri language]
9596480896

 3.Arshad Mohiuddin
Lachh Qalamabad
Vice President
Cultural Trust Kupwara. Also
Vice President  of the local unit
Joi Adab Kajinaag Handwara
Working as Master in HSS Qalamabad
Poet
9906646852

4. Hassan Ajmi
JKhunbal Handwara
B.A;B.Ed
President of the local unit
Mehboobul Alam Society Rajwar besides being the General Secretary Cultural Trust Kupwara
Working as Headmaster HS Chek Sarmarg
Poet
7006907490

5. Bashir Tahir  Retired master from,Wavoora Lolab. Post graduate in two subjects and B. Ed
Organisor Cultural Trust Kupwara
Poet
9622501688

6. Fayaz Ahmad Fayaz
Pachkoot Ramhal
Treasurer
Cultural Trust Kupwara
B.A,B Ed
Teacher in JK Education Department.
Poet
  9149678818

The following members of the Cultural Trust Kupwara are also the office bearers of their local literary units working in particular areas  
7. Safdar Yusuf
Drugmulla
M.A; B.Ed
General Secretary
Bazm e Adab Handwara
Teacher
Poet
 95962 22508

8. Zahid Jamal
Zachaldara
M.A
Contractual Lecturer
President
Anjuman Sadaie Fun Rajwar
Poet /writer
70065 60689

9. Raashid Manzoor
President
Shehjar i Adab Lolab
Krusan Lolab
M.A;B.Ed
Teacher
70065 52287

10. Farooq Shaheen
Teacher
Sahitya Academy Awardee
Poet/Teacher
President Idara Tahqeeq o Adab J&K
78899 35081

11. Ishfaq Ali Makhmoor
M.Sc;M.Phil Zoology
Poet/writer/painter
Member
Anjuman e Fikr o Fun Ramhal
70066 24652

12. Adil Tariq
Dorusa Lalpora
M.A
Poet/writer/singer
Secretary
Anjuman e Adab o Saqafat Lolab
96225 62808

13. Gulzar Jaffar

Hatmulla
M.A; B.Ed
Lecturer
Poet/Critic
Member
Cultural Trust Kupwara
88250 51881