Six Government school teachers including four female teachers of Uttarakhand will be awarded the prestigious National Award for Teachers-2012 on the occasion of Teacher’s Day.
The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee will present National Awards to meritorious teachers from across the country at a function in Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Thursday. Moreover, two teachers of Uttarakhand will also be awarded the National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) awards for the effective implementation of ICT in their schools. When the nation celebrates Teacher’s Day on Thursday, six teachers of Uttarakhand will be among those receiving the national award for teachers, which are presented annually by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.
The recipients for National Award for Teachers-2012 are Government Junior High School, Gwally, Pithoragarh assistant teacher Vijay lakshmi Shah; GJH Madap, Pithoragarh assistant teacher Santosh Joshi; Government Primary School Khatta, Dehradun head teacher Jagdeshwari Bhandari; Government Inter College, Sumari, Pauri assistant teacher Niraj Kumar Naithani; Government Inter College lohaghat, Champawat assistant teacher Naresh Singh Deo and PB Municipal Inter College Haridwar lecturer Vinita Kural. It may be mentioned here that seven teachers including three female teachers of the State in the year 2011, eight teachers including four female teachers in 2010, nine teachers including four female teachers in 2009 and eight teachers including four female teachers in 2008 were awarded national awards for teachers by the President of India.
Assistant teacher Neeraj Kumar Naithani said,” Though, I am an English lecturer in GIC Sumari, I work for promoting Hindi literature in school and the society. I won several awards including Shailesh Matiyani State teachers’ award for extraordinary work in creative teaching methods and in the field of Hindi literature.” He wrote five books on Hindi literature and creative writing. One of his books was published by HNB Garhwal Central University, Srinagar. He led school students to attend workshop on children’s literature organised at different places across the State. His students secured cent per cent results in English in their class X and class XII board examination in the last 10 years.
The two recipients for National ICT awards are Government Inter College Dudhli lecturer Jagdamba Prasad Dobhal and Government High School, Anand Chowk, Tehri lecturer Ramesh Kumar Badoni.
While talking to The Pioneer, Badoni said that before becoming a teacher in Government school, he worked as a reservoir engineer in ONGC for three and half years. He has been working as a mathematics teacher in GHS, Anand Chowk, Tehri for the last seven years. He has been developing teachers training module at SCERT for the last three years. He had developed activity book being taught for Classes I-VIII in the State.
According to him, teachers should use technology in their class room which makes it easy to understand for the students. Around 87 per cent students had passed in Mathematics in their board examination this year. In the year 2010, two teachers from Uttarakhand were awarded the National ICT awards.
It should be mentioned here that every year, on the occasion of Teachers’ Day (on September 5, the birth anniversary of former Indian President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the National Awards are presented to meritorious teachers. The Awards were instituted in 1958 to give public recognition to meritorious teachers working in primary, middle and secondary schools.