Jalandhar teachers feted for going above & beyond teaching

Aparna Banerji

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 5

Six Jalandhar teachers were awarded with the State Award in a virtual-cum-online state-level Teachers Award distribution ceremony in which 80 state teachers were honoured by Education Minster Vijay Inder Singla. The six Jalandhar teachers include three senior secondary/upper primary teachers and three primary teachers.

The teachers awarded from Senior Secondary Schools include — Kulwinder Singh Gakhal, a science teacher at Government Senior Secondary Smart School, Gakhal Dhaliwal; Chandrashekhar, an English teacher at Government Senior Secondary School, Ladowali Road.

Those from the primary schools include Gurvinder Kaur from Government Primary School, Mustfapur; Kewal Singh from Government Primary School, Ida.

Admnistrative State Awards were awarded to Principal Bhupinder Singh of Government Senior Secondary School, Mand, and Gagandeep Singh Government Primary School, Basti Mithu.

DEOs Secondary (Harinder Pal Singh) and elementary (Rampal Singh) were president to award teachrs who were honoured at the DC office today during the ongoing online ceremony.

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While Chandrashekhar has been awarded for developing the Educare App, Kulwinder Singh Gakhal has been felicitated for the service rendered to his school. The school’s strength during the pandemic increased from 479 two years ago to 600 at present. Gakhal has also been credited with trying to rope in the NRIs to give a fillip to his school. It was only due to his efforts that NRIs’ aid could be used to introduce basic amenities in the school, including printers, computers, labs, pumps and five smart rooms. The school has 24 to 25 rooms currently.

Bhupinder Pal Singh, Principal of Government Senior Secondary School, Mand came in to join as the principal at a school in February 2010 which has 350 students and rooms with no basic amenities. The school had no proper toilets, water arrangements, grounds, labs etc. Bhupinder Pal with the help of NRIs changed the school’s scenario — it now being a state-of-the-art school with latest equipment.

The school now has 735 students while 20 rooms were added during his tenure and several new vocational subjects were also started. The medical and non-medical groups which just had 12 students now have 64. The commerce stream was started in the school this year. The school students have also won laurels in national tourneys. The principal is also instrumental in raising the enrolments in 22 schools under him by 15 per cent this year alone.