Four Amritsar teachers get State Award

Four teachers of the district were felicitated with State Award this Teacher’s Day. During the felicitation ceremony held at the District Administrative Complex here on Sunday, SDM Rajesh Sharma, DEO (S) Satinderbir Singh and others handed them over a certificate, a shawl and a medal each. Those awarded are: 

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Narinder Singh

A Science Master at Government High School, Kakkar village, he is teaching for the last 16 years. He is also district science mentor. It was only a year ago that he was promoted as Headmaster (direct recruitment) by the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC). He was instrumental in increasing new admission to the school by 25 per cent, indoor sports room, maths park-cum-open classroom, displaying all geometrical signs around the green board, a well-furnished and fully equipped science lab. Being a border village, a large number of children work at brick kilns. Bringing them back to school was his main aim. So, he kicked off an anti-child labour campaign with the help of his colleagues. He said the online shift of education in the wake of Covid-19 brought in unimaginable challenges.

Gurinder Kaur

She has been a teacher for the past nearly 25 years. Before joining the government school as Headmistress in 2006, she taught as science teacher at Spring Dales for 10 years. She was promoted as Principal in 2014. During the pandemic, she ensured that students coming from impoverished families at Government School, Talwandi Dasaundha Singh, got uninterrupted education. So, she arranged for transmission of two channels on education in the e-vidya lab set up at her school. All teachers pooled money to own a van, which was used to motivate parents to send their wards to school.

Adarsh Sharma

She has been teaching English for the last 27 years. “Teaching is my passion. So, whenever my school and students need me, I leave behind all other work without caring for holidays,” she said. She established an English lab with modern gadgets such as listening aid, audio-video aids, hand-made charts, models and games, funding all of these from her own pocket. The National University of Planning and Administration, New Delhi, also selected her for a programme. She has attended 21 national-level seminars organised by the NCERT, National University of Planning and Administration and Council for Cultural Research and Training. She is the nodal officer for all kinds of literary competitions being organised to mark the 400th Gurpurb of Guru Teg Bahadur and 75th Independence Day celebrations in the district.

Gurjit Kaur

A Punjabi teacher at Government High School, Putlighar, she has been in the teaching profession for the last 24 years. She developed Bhai Veer Singh Punjabi Park in the school, in which students learn grammar — that too all out of her own savings. She has also set up a Punjabi Kala Bhawan, in which she has displayed models of teaching-learning material related to her subject — Punjabi.