Two teachers from Maharashtra have won the National Awards to Teacher 2021.
Khurshid Kutubuddin Sheikh, Z.P. Upper Primary School, Asaralli, Sironcha, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra along with Umesh Raghunath Khose, Teacher, Z.P.P.S. Jagdambanagar, Kaddora, Omerga, Osmanabad will be conferred with the award by the President on September 5, Teachers’ Day.
The Ministry of Education on Wednesday announced a list of 44 teachers who have been selected for this year’s National Awards to Teachers, 2021. These teachers will be conferred with their awards by the President on September 5, Teachers’ Day.
This year’s winners are from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Sikkim, Mizoram, Tripura, Assam, Jharkhand, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Puducherry.
This year nine of the awardees this year are women.
The Central Ministry of Education had invited applications for the National Teacher Awards 2021 from June 1 to July 10. The government announced that these awards are given to honour teachers who are striving to raise quality standards in school education.