Srinagar: Amir Rafiq Peerzada, a Kashmiri boy, hailing from Pangigam Bandipora was bestowed with prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award 2015 for On Spot reporting category.
Rafiq is reporter and producer with Delhi-based NDTV.
Amir covered Nepal when it was hit by 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, 2015—the day when he was on the ground to shoot for his documentary Operation Everest: Summiteers To Saviours. The multi avalanche triggered by tremors at Everest base camp left nearly 9,000 people dead and nearly 22,000 injured.
“When I was shooting the quake,” Amir told, “I thought I will die. I kept thinking about my mother, which gave me strength to go on.” To honour the same strength, he was awarded on Wednesday in the ceremony held in Delhi.
Amir finished his Bachelors in Science at Government Degree College Sopore, he had his Masters in Broadcast journalism from Punjab University. After Masters, Amir joined NDTV on January 2013 as intern and within a month, he was hired.
His documentary Operation Everest: Summiteers to Saviours received couple of awards, including Red Ink Award by Mumbai Press club, Excellence Journalism in Sports category, excellent documentary award in Canada Film Festival in environment documentary category, best documentary jury award in Dada Sahib Phalke film festival. (KL)