National Award To Teachers 2023: 13 professors to be awarded on September 5; four from IITs

NEW DELHI: A total of 13 college professors have been selected for the National Award to Teachers 2023 for higher education. The Ministry of Education has released the list of selected lecturers who will be awarded on the occasion of Teachers’ Day 2023 on September 5.

Among the selected teachers, four are from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) including IIT Dharwad, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, and IIT Gandhinagar and one is from International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore. Two professors including one head of department have been selected from polytechnic institutes. One professor from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) and one assistant professor from AKTU has been chosen for the award.

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The awardees will get Rs 50,000 cash and a silver medal and the ceremony will be held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. MoE informed that the boarding and lodging arrangements of the awardees have been made at The Ashok Hotel from September 3 to September 5. The teachers will be briefed on September 3. The education ministry urged the lecturers to plan their arrival. Moreover, awardees will get to and fro air travel for themselves and one partner.

This year, MoE introduced a new category of awards for teachers of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and polytechnic institutes. The award has been divided into two major categories and several sub-categories.

List of awardees is given below: