Rajasthan

• 06 Sep 2022

Two Teachers from Rajasthan Honoured with 'National Teachers Award'

Why in News?

On the occasion of Teacher's Day on September 5, 2022, President Draupadi Murmu honoured two teachers of Rajasthan with National Teacher Award-2022 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

Key Points

• It is worth noting that this year 46 teachers from across the country were selected for the National Teacher Award, including two teachers from Rajasthan, Durgaram Muwal and Sunita Gulati.
• As a mark of respect to the teachers, a check of prize money of Rs 50,000 each, a silver medal, and a certificate were presented by the President.
• Durgaram Muwal, a teacher of Pargiyapada School, a government upper primary school of Falasiya Panchayat Samiti of Udaipur district, started teaching children in the tribal school and went to the families of the children and made them aware to send them to school. Launched an awareness campaign against child labor in the village and went to many homes and instilled the spirit of education among the children. By collecting information about trafficking, he also did a commendable job of rescuing children from the clutches of traffickers.
• Sunita Gulati, a teacher of the Government School for Deaf and Deaf in Bikaner district, was appointed in the school as a general teacher in the year 2017, after which she started working for the deaf and deaf children. She took training as a special teacher while living with the children and then got registered with the Rehabilitation Council of India. Prepared the deaf and deaf children for all kinds of difficulties, after which the children also won three awards in the National Level Science Competition.
• It is worth noting that on Teacher's Day, the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education organizes a national function every year on 5th September, in which national awards are given to the best teachers of the country.
• Teachers are selected for the awards in a transparent manner through an online three-tier selection process.
• The objective of conferring the National Award to Teachers is to underline the unique contribution of the teachers of the country and to honour such teachers, who have not only improved the quality of school education but also enriched the lives of their students with their commitment and hard work.

State Level Teacher Award-2022

Why in News?

On the occasion of National Teacher's Day on September 5, 2022, during the State Level Teacher Award Ceremony organized at Birla Auditorium, Education Minister Dr. B. D. Kalla honoured 98 teachers in different categories with the State Level Teacher Award-2022 for doing better work in the field of education.

Key Points

• Along with this, the Education Minister also honoured 6 education officers of the state for their best performance in the district ranking.
• Dr. Kalla also released an honour book for the introduction of respected teachers. Along with RKSMBK App was also launched. This app will be very useful for the students of class 3 to 8.
• Additional Chief Secretary, Education Pawan Kumar Goel described the teachers as a source of inspiration and suggested judicious use of resources in education. In order to compensate for the learning loss during the Corona period in education, the Rajasthan Government's innovations have been described as an ambitious plan of the department.

Education Minister launches 'Mission Buniyaad'

Why in News?

On September 5, 2022, Education Minister Dr. B-D-Kalla launched 'Mission Buniyaad' for the school children of the state at Shiksha Sankul.

Key Points

• Mission Buniyaad is a digital learning program. In this program, based on the understanding ability of each student, individual reading material is provided to him/her by the software, so that the children can make their own assessment.
• The objective of this program is to enhance the learning capacity of the students, reduce the gender gap, reduce the drop out rate by strengthening the digital infrastructure.
• Through this, about 20 lakh students of the state will be able to get high quality digital education.
• Mission Buniyaad has been launched by the Government of Rajasthan in association with Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Kaivalya Education Foundation (Piramal Foundation), GDI Partners and Convenience. According to the Kaivalya Education Foundation, this program is India's largest Personalized Adaptive Learning (P.A.L) programme.
• The program was launched in December 2020 as a pilot project in 6 districts- Udaipur, Sirohi, Bhilwara, Sikar, Dholpur and Karauli. 24,360 students of classes 8 to 12 from these districts participated in the project and their learning ability increased by an average of 16 per cent.