Mangaluru, Aug 22: As many as 47 teachers from across the country including three from Karnataka will be conferred the National Teachers Award for the year 2020 with the Union Education Ministry releasing the names of Friday.
The three teachers from Karnataka in the list are Yaqoob S, a teacher at Nada government high school at Beltangady in Dakshina Kannada, Surekha Jagannath, a teacher at Afzalpura government high school in Kalaburagi district, and Chemmalar Shanmugham, head teacher of Kendriya Vidyalaya at Jalahalli of Bengaluru.
According to an order issued by the ministry, the Department of School Education and Literacy, constituted an Independent Jury at National Level to select the award recipients for the year 2020.
“The Independent Jury at National Level reviewed the list of 153 teachers as shortlisted by all the 36 State and UT Selection Committees and 7 Organisation Selection Committees through Video Conferencing,” the order said.
The Jury considered the applications and presentations made by all shortlisted teachers and after detailed deliberations recommended the names which were approved by Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, the order said.
Who is Yaqoob
Yaqoob is the only teacher from the coastal Karnataka to be chosen for the award. He had drawn the attention of the education department when he established a mathematics laboratory in the government school where he teaches. He started this with the help of the locals. The lab helped in teaching maths in an easy manner to the students of the school.
Yaqoob's achievement had caught the attention of the education faculty throughout Karnataka and he was awarded the state-level best teacher award too. He started his teaching career in 1996 and since then has contributed immensely to the overall development of the government school where he is teaching. More than 300 of Yaqoob's videos of simple maths teaching are available on YouTube.
Yaqoob is the son of Isubu Byari and Alimamma, natives of Koyyuru Unnalu. He completed his primary education in his native place. He then pursued his education from Government Teachers' Educational Institute in Mangaluru and started his career as teacher in Nada government high school. He has also served as the assistant director of Akshara Dasoha programme from 2007 to 2012.
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