President Murmu confers National Teachers Award 2023 to 75 educators

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: For Archana Nooguri, it was not straightforward to encourage tribal kids in Telangana to return and research. Not solely was she in a position to persuade them, however she additionally organized furnishings, water, LED projectors, further lessons, and even computer systems – collected by way of donations – for her college.

As the college was a long way away for the poor college students within the age group of 5 years to 10 years, she organized together with her personal cash an auto-rickshaw to choose and drop them. 

The kids not solely discovered to learn and write, however she motivated them to even write of their language the tales of their forefathers. “The children’s stories would soon come out in a book form,” Nooguri, a head instructor within the main college, instructed The New Indian Express. 

Nooguri is among the many 75 academics awarded the distinguished National Teachers Award by President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday throughout Teachers Day. Feeling happy with receiving the nationwide award for the 12 months 2023, Nooguri stated that the honour would encourage her additional to make younger kids from poor backgrounds discover ways to learn and write.

The 75 academics embrace 50 college academics, 13 academics from greater training and 12 academics from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. Of the entire awards, 18 went to academics from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. It was the primary time that greater training and talent class academics had been additionally awarded together with college academics. The award carries a certificates of benefit, a money award of Rs. 50,000 and a silver medal.

Among the awardees are Dr S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna, a professor from IIT Dharwad, Karnataka; Murahara Rao Uma Gandhi, a yoga teacher who teaches free to underprivileged folks from Andhra; Shiyad S, a senior teacher who teaches welding in ITI, Palakkad, Kerala and is thought for his innovation of coconut dehusking tools; and Dr T Godwin Vedanayagam Rajkumar, a bodily training instructor from Tamil Nadu.

Wheel-chair sure, Mekala Bhaskar Rao, instructed The New Indian Express that he by no means let his bodily limitations cease him from working for his college students and faculty. Andhra Pradesh-based Rao was solely liable for offering college infrastructure value Rs. 20 lakhs. The cash helped construct bathrooms, further lecture rooms, a compound wall, a consuming water facility, and many others. 

As he was on wheel-chair, the president, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and different dignitaries got here down from the dais to honour him.

Describing academics who “build the future of the nation,” Murmu stated that high quality training is taken into account the elemental proper of each little one and the function of academics is a very powerful in reaching these objectives. She added that the significance of academics as nation-builders has additionally been clearly acknowledged within the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

Rao stated he’s feeling fortunate to have obtained the highest nationwide award from the president. “I feel lucky today. In my journey, I have received the support of authorities, students, teachers and the community which enabled me to work to tackle various problems, including the problem of dropouts.”

Using theatre to encourage highschool college students, Narayan Parameshwar Bhagwat, 55, from Karnataka, stated he feels “very happy” that he was chosen for the highest nationwide awards for academics. 

“I used theatre to teach children from science to literature to social science. Not only does this create an interest in them towards learning, but it also helps them to concentrate and motivate them further. I feel proud that all my students did well in their board exams,” stated Bhagwat, who teaches college students from class 8 to 10, specialising in kids’s theatre.

A Kannada instructor at Shri Marikamba Government PUC High School, Sirsi, proudly stated he teaches in a faculty that homes 1529 college students – the best variety of college students in Karnataka. Believing that educating ought to be enjoyable, he has taught college students within the night and has additionally, to his credit score, a number of dramas that he has directed.

A main college instructor, Murahara Rao Uma Gandhi from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, can be a yoga practitioner. She teaches yoga and meditation freed from price with a deal with underprivileged folks. “I am feeling proud of receiving the award.” She has curated educating modules and written a number of poems for college students.

“I have translated four books from English to Telugu, with the help of an online website FROOTS,” stated Gandhi. She has additionally organised on-line classes throughout the summer season trip to relate tales and rhymes and to conduct varied different actions.

NEW DELHI: For Archana Nooguri, it was not straightforward to encourage tribal kids in Telangana to return and research. Not solely was she in a position to persuade them, however she additionally organized furnishings, water, LED projectors, further lessons, and even computer systems – collected by way of donations – for her college.

As the college was a long way away for the poor college students within the age group of 5 years to 10 years, she organized together with her personal cash an auto-rickshaw to choose and drop them. 

The kids not solely discovered to learn and write, however she motivated them to even write of their language the tales of their forefathers. “The children’s stories would soon come out in a book form,” Nooguri, a head instructor within the main college, instructed The New Indian Express. googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Nooguri is among the many 75 academics awarded the distinguished National Teachers Award by President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday throughout Teachers Day. Feeling happy with receiving the nationwide award for the 12 months 2023, Nooguri stated that the honour would encourage her additional to make younger kids from poor backgrounds discover ways to learn and write.

The 75 academics embrace 50 college academics, 13 academics from greater training and 12 academics from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. Of the entire awards, 18 went to academics from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. It was the primary time that greater training and talent class academics had been additionally awarded together with college academics. The award carries a certificates of benefit, a money award of Rs. 50,000 and a silver medal.

Among the awardees are Dr S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna, a professor from IIT Dharwad, Karnataka; Murahara Rao Uma Gandhi, a yoga teacher who teaches free to underprivileged folks from Andhra; Shiyad S, a senior teacher who teaches welding in ITI, Palakkad, Kerala and is thought for his innovation of coconut dehusking tools; and Dr T Godwin Vedanayagam Rajkumar, a bodily training instructor from Tamil Nadu.

Wheel-chair sure, Mekala Bhaskar Rao, instructed The New Indian Express that he by no means let his bodily limitations cease him from working for his college students and faculty. Andhra Pradesh-based Rao was solely liable for offering college infrastructure value Rs. 20 lakhs. The cash helped construct bathrooms, further lecture rooms, a compound wall, a consuming water facility, and many others. 

As he was on wheel-chair, the president, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and different dignitaries got here down from the dais to honour him.

Describing academics who “build the future of the nation,” Murmu stated that high quality training is taken into account the elemental proper of each little one and the function of academics is a very powerful in reaching these objectives. She added that the significance of academics as nation-builders has additionally been clearly acknowledged within the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

Rao stated he’s feeling fortunate to have obtained the highest nationwide award from the president. “I feel lucky today. In my journey, I have received the support of authorities, students, teachers and the community which enabled me to work to tackle various problems, including the problem of dropouts.”

Using theatre to encourage highschool college students, Narayan Parameshwar Bhagwat, 55, from Karnataka, stated he feels “very happy” that he was chosen for the highest nationwide awards for academics. 

“I used theatre to teach children from science to literature to social science. Not only does this create an interest in them towards learning, but it also helps them to concentrate and motivate them further. I feel proud that all my students did well in their board exams,” stated Bhagwat, who teaches college students from class 8 to 10, specialising in kids’s theatre.

A Kannada instructor at Shri Marikamba Government PUC High School, Sirsi, proudly stated he teaches in a faculty that homes 1529 college students – the best variety of college students in Karnataka. Believing that educating ought to be enjoyable, he has taught college students within the night and has additionally, to his credit score, a number of dramas that he has directed.

A main college instructor, Murahara Rao Uma Gandhi from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, can be a yoga practitioner. She teaches yoga and meditation freed from price with a deal with underprivileged folks. “I am feeling proud of receiving the award.” She has curated educating modules and written a number of poems for college students.

“I have translated four books from English to Telugu, with the help of an online website FROOTS,” stated Gandhi. She has additionally organised on-line classes throughout the summer season trip to relate tales and rhymes and to conduct varied different actions.