Nominations invited to confer state awards for teachers

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)

CHANDIGARH, AUG 9

The Haryana Government has invited nominations to confer State Awards to the teachers for the year 2011.

While stating this here today, Haryana Education Minister Mrs. Geeta Bhukkal said that State Awards were awarded by the Government to teachers in recognition of their significant performance on September 5, every year. She said that all District Education Officers (DEOs) and District Elementary Education Officers (DEEOs) have been directed to recommend the cases for the State Award-2011 by August 15, 2012.

Detailing about the eligibility, Mrs. Bhukkal said that teachers with atleast 15 years of regular class teaching experience and Headmasters or Principals with 20 years of regular teaching experiences as on December 31, 2011 would be eligible for sending nominations. She made it clear that the Educational Administrators including Director and staff of SCERT/DEO/DEEOs/ Principal DIETs and staff of DIETs/Deputy DEOs/ Block Education Officers (BEOs)/AEOs would not be eligible to apply for these awards. The Minister said that the categories of teachers eligible for nominations would be primary teachers who were teaching upto class V and secondary teachers who were teaching classes VI to XII.

Mrs. Bhukkal said that District Level Committee would examine the cases of various categories as per criteria and if there are cases scoring more than 70 per cent, then their names may be recommended by the committee to the State Level Committee. The District level Committee would be headed by District Education Officer concerned. Other members included Principal DIET, Principal of a Senior Secondary School and Principal of Navodaya Vidyalaya. The recommendations of the District Level Committees would be scrutinized by the State Level Committee chaired by Director, Secondary Education. The State Level Committee shall finalise the names for the award.

The Minister said that main consideration for awards would be academic efficiency, personal achievements, involvement in social life of community and academic and co-curricular achievement of the children. The scheme envisages that those teachers who show exceptional academic efficiency, quality of teaching and professional competence, good conduct and team spirit, engagement with the local community, utilize innovative teaching methods and command respect in the community would be recommended for the awards. The selection process would be completely transparent, she further added.