Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, along with Higher Education and language Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra and Medical Education and Research Minister Anil Joshi, on Friday felicitated the people especially the teaching fraternity across the state on the occasion of Teacher's Day.
They called upon them to discharge their duties with utmost dedication, sincerity and honesty to impart quality and value based education to the students so as to enable them to become ideal citizens of society.
Badal, in his message, said that the Teacher’s day was observed as a befitting tribute to a great educationist, academician and the former President late Dr Sarvpalli Radha Krishnan, on his birth anniversary. Dr Radha Krishnan was a true statesman and a great philosopher whose unprecedented contribution in various fields especially in revamping the education system was still remembered by one and all, he said.
Rakhra and Joshi, in a joint message, urged the teachers to make all out efforts to infuse noble qualities of discipline, righteousness, truthfulness, sense of integrity, high character and dedication amongst the students.
Describing the teachers as “guardians of moral values and socio-economic culture”, they said that teachers could play an important role as supportive friend, philosopher and guide for the students besides imparting value based education to enable them to become ideal citizens of the society.