National Teachers Awards 2024: 50 teachers to get national awards today

National Teachers’ Awards 2024: The Department of School Education and Literacy under the Ministry of Education, has announced the winners of the National Teachers’ Awards 2024. A total of 50 teachers from across the country have been selected for the award, which will be conferred today, September 5 at 4:15 pm onwards at Vigyan Bhawan.

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These 50 awardees represent 28 states, 3 union territories, and 6 organisations. Among them, 34 are male, 16 are female, 2 are differently abled, and 1 works with children with special needs (CWSN).

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In addition to the 50 teachers, 16 teachers from the Department of Higher Education and 16 teachers from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship will also be awarded on the occasion.

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National Teacher Awards 2024

S.No.	Name	State/Union Territory
1	Avinasha Sharma	Haryana
2	Sunil Kumar	Himachal Pradesh
3	Pankaj Kumar Goyal	Punjab
4	Rajinder Singh	Punjab
5	Baljinder Singh Brar	Rajasthan
6	Hukam Chand Chaudhary	Rajasthan
7	Kusum Lata Gariya	Uttarakhand
8	Chandralekha Damodar Mestri	Goa
9	Chandresh Kumar Bolashankar Borisagar	Gujarat
10	Vinay Shashikant Patel	Gujarat
11	Madhav Prasad Patel	Madhya Pradesh
12	Sunita Godha	Madhya Pradesh
13	K. Sharda	Chhattisgarh
14	Narasimha Murthy H.K.	Karnataka
15	Dwiti Chandra Sahu	Odisha
16	Santosh Kumar Kar	Odisha
17	Ashish Kumar Roy	West Bengal
18	Prasanta Kumar Marik	West Bengal
19	Urfana Amin	Jammu and Kashmir
20	Ravi Kant Dwivedi	Uttar Pradesh
21	Shyam Prakash Maurya	Uttar Pradesh
22	Dr. Minakshi Kumari	Bihar
23	Sikendra Kumar Suman	Bihar
24	K. Suma	Andaman and Nicobar Islands
25	Sunita Gupta	Madhya Pradesh
26	Charu Sharma	Delhi
27	Ashok Sengupta	Karnataka
28	H. N. Girish	Karnataka
29	Narayanswamy R	Karnataka
30	Jyoti Panka	Arunachal Pradesh
31	Lephizo Apon	Nagaland
32	Nandita Chongtham	Manipur
33	Yankila Lama	Sikkim
34	Joseph Vanlalhruaia Sail	Mizoram
35	Everlasting Pyngrope	Meghalaya
36	Dr. Nani Gopal Debnath	Tripura
37	Dipen Khanikar	Assam
38	Dr. Asha Rani	Jharkhand
39	Jinu George	Kerala
40	K. Sivaprasad	Kerala
41	Middie Srinivas Rao	Andhra Pradesh
42	Suresh Kunati	Andhra Pradesh
43	Prabhakar Reddy Pesara	Telangana
44	Thaduri Sampath Kumar	Telangana
45	Pallavi Sharma	Delhi
46	Charu Maini	Haryana
47	Gopinath R	Tamil
48	Muralidharan Ramiya Sethuraman	Tamil
49	Mantaiah Chinni Bedke	Maharashtra
50	Sagar Chittaranjan Bagade R	Maharashtra

These selected teachers were chosen through a rigorous three-stage selection process conducted by the Department and the process included district, state, and national levels of evaluation. A total of 82 teachers will be honored at the event. The National Awards to Teachers were first instituted in 1958, the guidelines were revised in 2018.