The Governor of Uttarakhand, Krishan Kant Paul, honoured 28 teachers with Governor’s Teacher’s Award on the occasion of Teachers’ day on Tuesday. Paying tributes to former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the Governor said he was a great philosopher and statesman.
“After Swami Vivekananda, he was the second Indian to have spread Indian culture and philosophy effectively in the world” he said. Greeting teachers on the occasion of Teachers day, the Governor said that every teacher should make the effort to become a ‘Guru’ who would impart not just education but true knowledge and wisdom. Students would then respect the teachers greatly and remain obliged to them all their lives, he added.
The Governor said that teachers had an important role to play in nation building as by the year 2030, India will have 40 crore youth and they can be given the right direction only by teachers. Teachers should encourage a scientific temperament among students. Expressing concern on effect of games like Blue Whale, he said that teachers must have a regular interaction with students so that students do not feel alone.
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat was also present on the occasion. Teachers who were awarded were Vinita Khati (assistant teacher from the Government school, Tadikhet, Almora), Shankar Dutt Bhatt from Hawalbagh, Suresh Chandra Sati of Bageshwar, Daya Rawat, Sarla Chauhan (from Chamoli), Gajendra Singh Bisht from Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya Vidyalaya(Gairsain), Khadak Singh Bora of Gagar, Champawat, Samashrawa Arya, Preeti Sharma and Anita Negi of Dehradun, Shiva Aggarwal of Haridwar, Anil Kumar Pandey, Mahendra Singh Saini, Trilochan Upadhyaya, Neelam Joshi, Akhilesh Chandra Chamola, Chandrashekhar Sharma, Rajendri Kanyal, Shyam lal Bharti, Asha Bangwal, Uttam Singh Rana, Usha Mehra, Madan lal, Parvati Joshi and Tajammul Hasan.
Besides them, Rakesh Kumar of Government Sanskrit College (Chamba,Tehri) and Prakash Chandra Joshi of Shri Ramanuj Shri Vaishnav Sanskrit College, Bhupatwal, Haridwar, were also awarded.
The teachers were selected on the basis of their contribution to innovation, better exam results, environment conservation in the school and cleanliness. The teachers were given `10,000 each. Four books, compilations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann ki Baat, Mahatma Gandhi’s “My Experiments with Truth”, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s “Discovery of India” and S Radhakrishnan’s “living with a Purpose”.
These awards were instituted by Governor KK Paul in the year 2015.
with the objective of publicly recognising the excellent performance of teachers and encouraging all teachers to work better.