AMRITSAR: The Annual Teacher of the Year Award-2023 ceremony was held at Khalsa College of Education in collaboration with Khalsa Global Reach Foundation here today. Dr. Rajinder Kumar, an ETT teacher from Government Primary Smart School, Bathinda bagged the Teacher of the Year award, winning Rs. One lakh cash and citation.
The second position was bagged by Rumani Ahuja, Lecturer in Mathematics, Government Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana who got Rs.25, 000 cash award and citation while Deepak Kumar, Lecturer in Physics, Government Senior Secondary School, Daroli Bhai, Moga was awarded with third position, wirth Rs.15000 cash prize.
The award, constituted with the financial help from Khalsa Global Reach Foundation (US) aims to identify and encourage the teaching community to provide value based education to the society. Khalsa University VC Dr.Mehal Singh, who was the chief guest, said that teachers lay the foundation of any society and the award had been set up to encourage them in performing their duties as teachers.
KU Registrar Dr.Khushwinder Kumar said the education scenario has changed with the implementation of the New Education Policy and the role of the teacher has become more challenging. He said there were numerous entries received for the award and the judges had tough times to identify the best teachers. The panel of judges finally decided on the best teachers.
KU Dean Dr.Surinder Kaur, Sarbjit Singh from Khalsa Global Reach also played a pivotal role in organizing the event. Master Karamjit Singh Grewal from Government Middle School, Jhameri, Ludhiana was also given special award of Rs.10, 000 for promoting Punjabi language and other special prizes were also given to Ajay Kumar, Rupinderjit Kaur, Kiran Bala, Gurnam Singh, Gopal Singh, Pankaj Kumar Goyal, Narinder Singh, Palwinder Kaur and Surinder Singh.