Allahabad :

Award-winning teachers will be in for a special treat this Teachers’ Day (September 5) as they have been invited to have an interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on the September 4. The teachers, who have either been felicitated with National Award or the national incentive award by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), would be invited by the government to interact with the PM.

A notice, mentioning an invite from the government, has been sent to the principals of all the KVS’ of the country by their respective regional office (RO). The Varanasi RO has sent the letter to all the principals of the KVS” in Allahabad for the information of the awarded teachers.

The letter, by KVS’ headquarter, dated August 11 and singed by assistant commissioner KVS’, D K Dwivedi, mentions that all the teachers who have been given the national award in the last five years and principals or teachers who have won KVS’ national incentive award during the last three years (2012-14) would be invited on September 4 to interact with the PM. The letter instructs the principal to furnish the information in a prescribed format.

The invite for interacting with the PM bears special significance for the city as there are two teachers and a principal who have been awarded with national incentive award in the last three years. Principal, KV New Cantt, Shalini Dikshit, was selected for the coveted national incentive award last year.

Remarkably, Dikshit’s name features along with three other principals of the country among 1,100 odd KVS’ in 29 regions. Likewise, Pallavi Sharma, principal KV number 3, Jhansi, who was awarded the national award in the year 2014 by President Pranab Mukerjee, would also be among the invitees.

“The award in itself was an honour and recognition of our work and now an invitation to interact with the PM gives us an added sense of responsibility that our efforts are not only being recognized but the PM too wants to share his idea of grooming the next generation of the country”, said Shalini Dikshit, principal KV New Cantt.

Along with Dikshit, two primary teachers, Purnima Pandey of KV Manauri and Archana Jaiswal of KV IIIT-A Jhalwa were also awarded with national incentive award. In all, there are around a dozen teachers who have been selected for the national incentive award and will be going to New Delhi to interact with the PM.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Allahabad / by Rajeev Mani, TNN / August 13th, 2015