Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu presented the wards to these teachers at a function organised to mark the Teachers' Day here on Tuesday. The award carried a Silver Medal, Certificate and a cheque of Rs 50, 000. Picture courtesy Twitter
School teachers from Karnataka won as many as 16 national awards for their outstanding contribution to the field of teaching in the State.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu presented the wards to these teachers at a function organised to mark the Teachers' Day here on Tuesday. The award carried a Silver Medal, Certificate and a cheque of Rs 50, 000.
Assistant teacher Rathnamma BM got the national award from the Vice President for her contribution to increasing the enrollment in her school and checking the drop rate of the students. She is an assistant teacher at the Government Model Primary School Mayasandra, Bangalore.
“She is intelligent, hardworking, honest, dutiful and a sincere teacher,” a citation about Rathnamma read.
V Ashok Kumar, who teaches at the Government Lower Primary School Cinnenahalli, Srirangapatnam, in Madya district, won the national award for “excellent teaching” and “working hard” to increase the enrollment in his school.
Assistant teacher SR Achutharao from the Government Lower Primary School, Kadur, in Chikmagalur district, and M Krishnappa, head master of the Government Primary School Pulagurkote, Srinivasapur, in Kollar district also got a national award.
Other award winners from the State were Kumara HC, assistant master at the Government Lower Primary School Soppugudde, Thirthahalli, Shimoga; Diwakar Parmeshwar Hegde, assistant teacher Government Higher Primary School Neelemav, Siddapur, Uttara Kannada.
H Govindappa, a graduate assistant teacher at the Government Deaf School, Cantonment Bellary, won the national award under a special category for making an exemplary contribution to the field of teaching.
Under the secondary school category, the national awards went to Purandaranarayana Bhat K from Vidyabodhini High School, Balila, in Dakshina Kannada district; Pandit K Balure from PV High School, Ghal Borol, Hummnabad, in Bidar district; and GM Manjunatha, who is a senior teacher at Government Pre-University College High School, Srinivasapura, in Kolar district.
Sanskrit teachers Gangadhar R Bode of Kendriya Vidyalaya, 18th Cross Malleswaram, Bangalore, and Shridhar N Hegde from Kendriya Vidyalaya Rajnagar, Hubballi also received the award.
Other awardees from the State were Ramachandra G Deshpande from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Hanagal, Haveri; Murlidhar Shingri from Government High School, Karkihalli, Koppal; Gulzar I Dambal from Government High School, Thyamagondlu, Bangalore; cluster resource person Prashantha G, Kanakapura, Ramanagara district.
Vice President also launched a new web-portal, 'Diksha,' which seeks to empower teachers with teacher training resources, classroom resources. It will also share information on “teacher practice, observation, assessment and evaluation tools,” besides maintaining a profile of the teachers. President Ram Nath Kovind later met the awardees at Rashtrapati Bhavan.