Three IIT professors chosen for National Awards to Teachers 2024
NAT 2024 list also includes one each from IISER and BHU. Awardees will get Rs 50,000 and silver medals.
Vagisha Kaushik | August 29, 2024 | 01:49 PM IST
NEW DELHI: A total of 16 professors and researchers have been selected for the National Awards to Teachers 2024 for higher education. The Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education has released the list of selected teachers who will be awarded on the occasion of Teachers’ Day 2024 on September 5. President Droupadi Murmu will present the awards.
Among the NAT 2024 awardees, three are from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) including IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, and IIT Indore, and one is from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune. Two professors have been selected from polytechnic institutes. One professor from the Banaras Hindu University is also on the list of selected teachers.
“The selection is based on the performance of the teacher as adjudged against the parameters such as Teaching Learning Effectiveness, Outreach activities, Research and Innovation, Sponsored Research/ Faculty Development Programs/ Consultancy Teaching. Of the above, Learning Effectiveness & Outreach activities has the preponderant weightage,” said an official statement from MoE.
Last year, the education ministry decided to divide the awards into two categories by introducing a new one for teachers of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and polytechnic institutes. The major categories – category 1 for HEIs and category 2 for polytechnic institutions – are further divided into subcategories.
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NAT 2024: List of awardees
The list of teachers selected for the national award is given below:
Name | College | State |
Dr Gandhimathi A | Thiagarajar Polytechnic College | Salem, Tamil Nadu |
Professor Parmar Ranjitkumar Khimjibhai | Government Polytechnic Khadiya | Junagadh, Gujarat |
Professor Nidhi Jain | IIT Delhi | Hauz Khas, New Delhi |
Dr Smiline Girija | Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Saveetha University | Chennai, Tamil Nadu |
Professor Birinchi Kumar Sarma | Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, | Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh |
Professor Srinivas Hotha | IISER, Pune | Maharashtra |
Dr S R Keshava | Department of Economics, Bangalore University, Jnana Bharathi Campus, | Karnataka |
Professor Shilpagauri Prasad | Pune District Education Association's Professor Ramkrishna More Arts, Commerce and Science College | Maharashtra |
Dr Chayapuram Jaya Sankar Babu | Pondicherry University | Puducherry |
Professor Nilabh Tiwari | Central Sanskrit University, Bhopal Campus | Madhya Pradesh |
Professor Vinay Sharma | IIT Roorkee | Uttarakhand |
Dr Nandavaram Mrudula | Govt. Degree College for Women, Mayur Marg, Begumpet, | Hyderabad, Telangana |
Dr Shimi S L | Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), | Chandigarh |
Professor Kapil Ahuja | IIT Indore | Madhya Pradesh |
Dr Anitha Suseelan | School of Architecture, Kengeri Campus, CHRIST Deemed to be University, | Karnataka |
Professor Shahanaz Ayub | Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology | Uttar Pradesh |
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