46 school teachers receive National Awards for innovations

New Delhi: Maths rangoli to teach shapes, algebraic tiling on floors, elements of periodic table as role numbers, introducing “bag less days” and “no punishment to students” are among innovative teaching-learning practices adopted by 46 teachers who have bagged National Teachers Award this year. Kavita Sanghvi, principal of Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School in Mumbai, introduced life skills in the school curriculum where children are taught soap and shoe making. “Bag less day initiative that she had implemented helped the students to try and experiment with different fields including arts and culture,” read her citation.

President Droupadi Murmu presented the National Awards to Teachers, 2022, on Monday to 46 select awardees to honour their unique contribution to school education. The Ministry of Education (MoE) has been organizing a function at Vigyan Bhawan on Teachers’ Day (September 05) every year to confer the awards to best teachers of the country, selected through a rigorous transparent and online three-stage selection process.

Among the awarded teachers, three each are from Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra and Telangana. Yudhveer, Virender Kumar and Amit Kumar (Himachal Pradesh); Harpreet Singh, Arun Kumar Garg and Vandana Shahi (Punjab); Shashikant Sambhajirao Kulthe, Somnath Waman Walke and Kavita Sanghvi (Maharashtra); Kandala Ramaiah, TN Sridhar and Sunitha Rao (Telangana), are the awardees from these four states. Pradeep Negi and Kaustubh Chandra Joshi (Uttarakhand), Sunita and Durga Ram Muwal (Rajasthan), Neeraj Saxena and Om Prakash Patidar (Madhya Pradesh), Saurabh Suman and Nishi Kumari (Bihar), G Ponsankari and Umesh TP (Karnataka), Mala Jigdal Dorjee and Sidharth Yonzone (Sikkim) are among the selected teachers.