An asteroid hunter. A Maths wizard. A trailblazer in a coal mining neighborhood. A Particular Olympics hockey coach. These are among the many 82 educators from throughout the nation who will obtain the Nationwide Lecturers’ Awards on September 5, 2026. The President of India Droupadi Murmu will confer the awards.
Among the many awardees are 48 faculty lecturers, 21 college members in increased schooling, and 13 trainers from the Union Ministry of Talent Growth and Entrepreneurship. Among the many college in increased schooling are proponents of Indian Data Programs, together with Vaastu Shastra, the Bhagavad Gita, and the combination of Sanskrit with AI.
One of many awardees, Haryana-based Anil Kaushik, often called the ‘Math Wizard’, constructed a state-of-the-art bodily Maths lab containing over 40 unique studying fashions, alongside a 12-section digital arithmetic lab with 30 ‘Harbans puzzles’. He has co-authored textbooks on Vedic Arithmetic and printed 22 educating modules on the nationwide DIKSHA portal.
Divyendu Sen from Rajasthan, one other recipient of the award, is a trainer in a authorities faculty who bridged rural lecture rooms with deep-space science by coaching native college students to trace and hunt asteroids. He has pioneered low-cost options, together with an AI-enabled Biology schooling mannequin, a Digital Biology Laboratory, and ‘Tree Speak’, a QR-based botanical studying system.
Rajasthan-based trainer Vartika Gulati is an awardee who teaches on the Authorities Ladies Higher Major Faculty in Jaipur. She turns summary ideas into on a regular basis experiences — educating Algebra with groundnuts and geometry with kites. Her initiative, ‘Prashno Se Vigyan’ (Science by questions), replaces rote studying with student-led inquiry.
Odisha-based trainer Padaraj Nayak, based mostly on the Authorities Excessive Faculty, Alipingal, is receiving the award for guiding college students to construct over 50 prototypes, together with a low-cost computerized plate-washing machine that earned a Authorities of India patent.
One other awardee, Jharkhand-based Munmun Bhattacherjee, working on the Authorities Center Faculty in Barmasia, Dhanbad, Bihar, has spearheaded an institutional turnaround in a susceptible coal mining neighborhood. Aligning with the NEP 2020 and NIPUN Bharat objectives, she launched low-cost Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) instruments; built-in Kids with Particular Wants (CwSN); prevented dropouts by house visits; and guided college students towards State arts awards, NEET prep, and vocational independence.
Equally, Maharashtra-based Kavita Gitte, head trainer on the Sane Guruji Nivasi Vidyalaya in Beed, is being felicitated for spending almost three many years integrating kids of migrant sugarcane staff into mainstream education by way of initiatives like ‘Balrakshak’ and ‘Shikshan Aaplya Dari’. As a nationwide softball and baseball coach, she has additionally guided almost 210 college students to State and nationwide achievements.
One other awardee, Gujarat-based Nitinkumar, transformed a resource-constrained tribal main faculty in Vansda, Navsari, right into a nationwide hub for digital studying. He constructed a 45-computer IT lab, a 7D VR/AR lab, an offline ‘Rangpur Server’, and a pupil journalism studio known as ‘R NEWS’. His ‘QR Code E book’ challenge and ‘Touchable PDFs’ reached over 112,000 college students throughout Gujarat through the pandemic.
Goa-based Mahadev Shinde, who’s among the many nationwide awardees, is a pioneer in adaptive sports activities on the Gujarati Samaj Particular Faculty, South Goa. Mr. Shinde coached the Indian ground hockey group to 4 Gold Medals and one Bronze on the 2017 Particular Olympics World Winter Video games. He served as a Bocce Sports activities Presenter on the 2023 World Video games and has mentored 14 international-level athletes who secured 13 medals for India.
Among the many increased schooling college members receiving awards is Kirti Chandra Sahu from the Indian Institute of Expertise Hyderabad, whose pioneering analysis on the form and measurement distributions of raindrops at completely different altitudes contributes to extra correct rainfall prediction. “He has developed a singular experimental facility from scratch that simulates atmospheric circumstances skilled by raindrops as they descend from clouds to the bottom, with potential functions in climate forecasting and local weather modelling,” a spokesperson from the Union Ministry of Schooling stated.
One other awardee, Avlokita Agrawal of IIT Roorkee, is a proponent of Vaastu Shastraand ‘Indian Data System in Structure’ by rational and scientific research.
Vinay Chamola on the Birla Institute of Expertise, Pilani, is receiving the award for the programs he has developed within the Web of Issues (IoT) and drone expertise, and for establishing a hands-on IoT Tinkering Lab, translating cutting-edge analysis into project-based studying. “He additionally leads an interdisciplinary Shrimad Bhagavad Gita course that has demonstrably enhanced pupil well-being, mixing technical excellence with compassion, values and function,” the spokesperson stated.
Ankuran Dutta, Head of the Division of Communications, Gauhati College, who has based Northeast India’s first neighborhood and internet radio stations, is being awarded for his contribution to participatory communication and cultural outreach.
One other awardee, Shivani V., a school member on the Karnataka Sanskrit College, Bengaluru is being felicitated for her work in bridging conventional Sanskrit scholarship with Computational Linguistics, Synthetic Intelligence, Digital Humanities, and Indian Data Programs.
“Her analysis on a computational mannequin for the linguistic examine of Sanskrit displays her pioneering efforts to attach Paninian grammar with fashionable language expertise. She has contributed to main tutorial and technological initiatives, together with Mahakosha, Nationwide Language Translation Mission, Shastrakosha, Pythonskrit, and Educational GPS, advancing the digitisation and computational examine of Sanskrit data,” the Schooling Ministry spokesperson acknowledged.
Revealed – September 04, 2026 10:54 pm IST
