Karnataka teachers win 16 national awards

DHNS
September 6, 2017

New Delhi, Sept 6: Schoolteachers from Karnataka have won as many as 16 national awards for their outstanding contribution to education.

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu gave away the awards at a Teachers’ Day function here on Tuesday. The award carries a silver medal, a certificate and a cheque for Rs 50,000.

Rathnamma B M got the national award for her contribution to increasing the enrollment in her school and checking the dropout rate. She is an assistant teacher at the Government Model Primary School at Mayasandra in Bengaluru.

“She is intelligent, hardworking, honest, dutiful and a sincere teacher,” the citation says of Rathnamma.

V Ashok Kumar, who teaches at the Government Lower Primary School at Cinnenahalli in Srirangapatna taluk of Madya district, won the national award for “excellent teaching” and “working hard” to increase the enrollment in his school.

Assistant teacher S R Achutharao from the Government Lower Primary School, Kadur, in Chikkamagaluru district, and M Krishnappa, headmaster at the Government Primary School at Pulagurkote in Srinivasapur taluk of in Kolar district, also got the national awards.

Other winners from the state are Kumara H C, assistant master at the Government Lower Primary School at Soppugudde, Thirthahalli, Shivamogga, and Diwakar Parmeshwar Hegde, assistant teacher at Government Higher Primary School at Neelemav, Siddapur, Uttara Kannada

H Govindappa, a graduate assistant teacher at the Government Deaf School, Ballari Cantonment, won the national award under the special category for making an exemplary contribution to the field of teaching.

In the secondary school category, the national awards went to Purandaranarayana Bhat K from Vidyabodhini High School, Balila, Dakshina Kannada district; Pandit K Balure from PV High School, Ghal Borol, Humnabad, Bidar district, and G M Manjunatha, senior teacher at the Government Pre-University College High School, Srinivasapur, Kolar district.

Sanskrit teachers Gangadhar R Bode of Kendriya Vidyalaya, 18th Cross Malleswaram, Bengaluru, and Shridhar N Hegde from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Rajnagar, Hubballi, also received the award.

Other awardees from Karnataka are Ramachandra G Deshpande from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Hangal, Haveri; Murlidhar Shingri from Government High School, Karkihalli, Koppal; Gulzar I Dambal from Government High School, Thyamagondlu, Bengaluru, and cluster resource person Prashantha G, Kanakapura, Ramanagaram district.

Naidu launched a web portal, Diksha, that seeks to empower teachers with training and classroom resources. It will also share information on ‘teacher practice, observation, assessment and evaluation tools.’

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June 11,2020

Mangaluru: ‘Team B-Human’, a city based charity organisation, has donated Rs 1 lakh for the treatment of the a three-year-old child from Kinya on the outskirts of the city, who had sustained severe burn injuries.

According to the reports, a cleric at the Kodaje Badriya Juma Masjid, was living in hardship with his wife and two kids and had to recently avail loan to repair his house which was severely damaged due to storm.

To add to his woes, his three-year old son sustained 80% burn injuries after hot water fell on him accidentally. The child is currently receiving treatment at a private hospital in Derlakatte. The child’s brother is battling kidney related ailment.

A fundraising campaign was recently run on local social media platforms to help the cleric in sustaining in the hardship and to raise fund for the treatment of his son.

Taking note of the viral messages on social media, ‘Team B-Human’ came to the rescue of cleric and donated Rs 1 lakh.

‘Team B-Human’ has also arranged Rs. 70 thousand from its well-wishers which will also be deposited to cleric’s account soon. ‘Team B-Human’ in a release added that it will take care of Batish until he is discharged from the hospital post-treatment. 

Founder of ‘Team B-Human’, Asif Deals, members Basha, Althaf, Sadiq, Shameem and others were present when the cheque of Rs. one lakh was handed over to the cleric.

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May 5,2020

Mangaluru, May 5: Covid-19 pandemic has caused widespread economic devastation in the country. Many people have lost their livelihood. All sectors of the economy are in distress. Providing relief to the needy is the need of the hour.  Responding to this humanitarian crisis, Dakshina Kannada Automobile & Tyre Dealers Association has contributed a sum of Rs. One Lakh towards Covid-19 relief.

Association President Sri Kasturi Prabhakar Pai along with Vice President Sri Harsha Kumar Kedige, Secretary Sri K. Vilas Kumar and Treasurer Sri Maroor Shashidhar Pai handed over two cheques for Rs. 50,000/- each favouring ‘PM Cares’ – the Prime Minister’s Covid-l9 Relief Fund and ‘Chief Minister Relief Fund Covid-l9’ of Karnataka respectively to Smt. Sindhu B. Rupesh, IAS, Deputy Commissioner of D. K. District at her office in Mangalore on Monday, May 4, 2020.

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June 20,2020

Tumakuru, Jun 20: An SSLC student of Siddaganga Mutt here was admitted to the isolation ward of the district hospital on Saturday after he showed Covid-19 symptoms.

Health officials said that the student, a native of the Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh, had returned to the Mutt via Raichur on June 15 for writing the SSLC examination scheduled to begin on June 25.

After he was admitted to the hospital the Health Department Officials kept three of his roommates under quarantine. Throat swab sample of the student has also been sent for testing.

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