On the occasion of National Teachers’ Day, on September 5, a total of 50 educators from across the country will be given the National Teachers Award 2024. This event will be held at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi where President Draupadi Murmu will present the award to the teachers.
The purpose of the National Award to Teachers 2024 in Higher Educational Institutions is to acknowledge the distinctive contributions of some of the finest faculty members in India and honour their efforts in bringing change in the life of students impacting the overall education system. A cash prize of Rs 50,000 along with a silver medal and certificate is bestowed on winners.
Among the 50 teachers, two are from Uttar Pradesh, two teachers from Madhya Pradesh, and two teachers from Bihar. Let’s take a look at the list of teachers who have been selected for the National Teachers Award 2024:
Himachal Pradesh — Sunil Kumar
Punjab — Pankaj Kumar Goyal, Rajinder Singh
Rajasthan — Baljinder Singh Barrar, Hukumchand Chaudhary
Uttarakhand — Kusum Lata Garia
Goa — Chandralekha Damodar Mistry
Madhya Pradesh — Madhav Prasad Patel, Sunita Godha
Gujarat — Chandresh Kumar Bholashankar Borisagar, Vinay Shashikant Patel
Chhattisgarh — Sharda
Odisha — Dviti Chandra Sahu, Santosh Kumar Kar
West Bengal — Ashish Kumar Roy, Prashant Kumar Marik
Jammu and Kashmir — Urfana Amin
Uttar Pradesh — Ravikant Dwivedi, Shyam Prakash Maurya
Bihar — Dr. Meenakshi Kumari, Sikandar Kumar Suman Suma
Andaman & Nicobar Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya — Sunita Gupta
Kendriya Vidyalaya — Charu Sharma, Ashok Sengupta
Every year, eligible and interested candidates submit the application forms for the National Teacher’s Award 2024. The award is open to all the faculty members of colleges, universities, higher educational institutions as well as polytechnics across the country. The selection procedure for the National Teachers Award 2024 is a two-step process. It includes a preliminary search cum screening committee for initial shortlisting of candidates followed by forming a committee of ‘jury’ which selects the final section of awardees from the shortlisted candidates.
