On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema on Saturday honoured 38 teachers with prstigious State Award, 14 teachers and 5 Education Officers with commendation letters at a State level function at CGC landran.
The teachers winning State Awards were given `10000, medal, a shawl and a commendation letter. As a bonanza for their meritorious services, the teachers were also given one year extension in service.
The other 14 teachers and 5 Education Officers were honoured with a shawl and commendation letters. On this occasion, the 6 National Awardee teachers of previous year were also honoured. A book penned by Dr. Kuldeep Singh Banur on previous year’s awarded teachers titled ‘UDDMI ADHIYAPAK’ was also released.
The State level function commenced with Saraswati Vandana. After this, Chief Guest Daljit Singh Cheema paid homage to Former Presidents Dr S Radhakrishnan and Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Addressing the teachers, Cheema made an announcement of increasing the prize amount given to the State Awardees by two and half percent. He also said that the amount of prize money would be increased from `10000 to `25000 from next year. He also said that the number of teachers is large in some cadres but due to the fixed quota of the awards many teachers miss out on these.
Keeping in view this situation, the number of awards would be increased in accordance with the cadre. He said that due to this only, 14 teachers have been given commendation letters who lost out on the awards due to their limited number but their services rendered are no less than that of the State award winners.