Teachers Day 2024: National teachers awards winners announced

The Ministry of Education has announced the names of the 50 National Teachers' Award 2024 winners. The awardees include 34 men and 16 women who will be honoured at Vigyan Bhavan on September 5th.

Teachers Day 2024, National Teachers Awards 2024:  The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, has announced the winners of the National Teachers’ Awards 2024. This time, a total of 50 teachers have been selected for the award, who will be honored at Vigyan Bhavan on September 5 at 4:15 pm. Teachers have been selected from across the country for the National Teachers Award. These 50 awardees represent 28 states, 3 union territories and 6 organizations. These include 34 men, 16 women, 2 differently-abled and 1 teacher working with special needs children.

Teachers Day 2024: Other Awards:

Apart from these 50 teachers, 16-16 teachers from the Department of Higher Education and the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship will also be awarded.

List of National Teachers Award Winners 2024

1. Avinasha Sharma - Haryana
2. Sunil Kumar - Himachal Pradesh
3. Pankaj Kumar Goyal - Punjab
4. Rajinder Singh - Punjab
5. Baljinder Singh Brar - Rajasthan
6. Hukum Chand Choudhary - Rajasthan
7. Kusum Lata Garia - Uttarakhand
8. Chandralekha Damodar Meshti - Goa
9. Chandresh Kumar Bolashankar Borisagar - Gujarat
10. Vinay Shashikant Patel - Gujarat
11. Madhav Prasad Patel - Madhya Pradesh
12. Sunita Godha - Madhya Pradesh
13. K. Sharda - Chhattisgarh
14. Narasimha Murthy H.K. - Karnataka
15. Dwiti Chandra Sahu - Odisha
16. Santosh Kumar Kar - Odisha
17. Ashish Kumar Roy - West Bengal
18. Prasant Kumar Marick - West Bengal
19. Urfana Amin - Jammu and Kashmir
20. Ravi Kant Dwivedi - Uttar Pradesh
21. Shyam Prakash Maurya - Uttar Pradesh
22. Dr. Minakshi Kumari - Bihar
23. Sikendra Kumar Suman - Bihar
24. K. Suma - Andaman and Nicobar Islands
25. Sunita Gupta - Madhya Pradesh
26. Charu Sharma - Delhi
27. Ashok Sengupta - Karnataka
28. H. N. Girish - Karnataka
29. Narayanaswamy R - Karnataka
30. Jyoti Panka - Arunachal Pradesh
31. Lefizo Apon - Nagaland
32. Nandita Chongtham - Manipur
33. Yankila Lama - Sikkim
34. Joseph Vanlalhruaia Sailo - Mizoram
35. Everlasting Pinegrove - Meghalaya
36. Dr. Nani Gopal Debnath - Tripura
37. Dipen Khanikar - Assam
38. Dr. Asha Rani - Jharkhand
39. Jinu George - Kerala
40. K. Sivaprasad - Kerala
41. Middi Srinivas Rao - Andhra Pradesh
42. Suresh Kunati - Andhra Pradesh
43. Prabhakar Reddy Pesara - Telangana
44. Thaduri Sampath Kumar - Telangana
45. Pallavi Sharma - Delhi
46. Charu Mani - Haryana
47. Gopinath R - Tamil Nadu
48. Muraleedharan Ramya Sethuraman - Tamil Nadu
49. Mantaiya Chinni Bedke - Maharashtra
50. Sagar Chittaranjan Bagde - Maharashtra

How are teachers selected for the National Teachers Award?

 Teachers for the National Teachers Award are selected through a three-tier selection process, which included evaluation at the district, state and national levels. A total of 82 teachers will be honored in this program. The National Teachers Award was instituted in 1958 and its guidelines were modified in 2018.

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