Governor Baby Rani Maurya conferred “Governor’s Teacher Award” on 31 teachers for their exceptional services at a programme organised at Raj Bhawan to mark the Teachers’ Day on Wednesday.
Addressing the programme, the Governor emphasised on the need to boost education of the girls and said that they should be encouraged to take up science and technology.
She said that the teachers must help students nurture their dreams and also help them in fulfilling them. Ascribing her success to her teachers, Maurya said that they had taught her the lessons of self-discipline, inculcated virtues (sanskaras) and spirit of social service. She urged the teachers to devote more time and attention to the children so that they do not go for tuitions. She said that the teachers have the power to take India to the status of the world leader (Vishwaguru) again.
The State Education Minister Arvind Pandey congratulated the teachers for the better board examination results this year.
The State education secretary, Bhupendra Kaur Aulakh said that the department has started a process in which monthly tests on last Monday of the month are taken and every Saturday is being observed as ‘doubt clearing day’. Similarly ‘Teacher of the month’ scheme had also been launched, she said. The secretary added that 2000 schools in the state now have the facility of biometric attendance system.
On the initiative of the Governor, the teachers were given Shawls (angvastrams) instead of floral bouquets this year. Among others present on the occasion were the director general ( DG), Education Capt Alok Shekhar Tiwari, the award winning teachers and their families.
The Awardees
The awards were given to R S Bisht and Deepa Arya of Almora, Alok Pandey and Kamla Parihar of Bageshwar, Pushpa Kanwasi and Vikram Singh Jhinkwan of Chamoli, R K Gadkoti and Rekha Bora of Champawat, Madhu Kukshal and Arvind Singh Solanki of Dehradun, Poonam Sharma and Amrish Chauhan of Haridwar, Mahesh Chandra Joshi and Mamta Dhami of Nainital, Navin Singh Aswal and Kumud Rawat of Pauri, Rajiv Kumar Kashyap and Girish Chandra Joshi of Pithoragarh, Darshan Singh Rawat and Rekha Pujari of Rudraprayag, Sashi Negi and Usha Trivedi of Tehri, Sovindra Singh and Chandrakala Shah of Uttarkashi and Dharmendra Singh and Kiran Sharma of Udham Singh Nagar. A cash prize of Rs 10000 and a certificate was handed over to the teachers.
The Governor also presented a book on the life of Swami Vivekananda and a collection of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’.