45 school, 21 HEI teachers get National Teachers' Award 2025; President speaks up for girls' education
Suviral Shukla | September 5, 2025 | 03:29 PM IST | 3 mins read
“Building the character of students is the primary duty of a teacher. I urged teachers to pay special attention to all students, including girls, who are relatively shy or come from less privileged backgrounds,” President Murmu said.
A total of 45 teachers from schools and 21 from Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) were honoured with the National Teachers Awards 2025 for their impeccable contribution to teaching and learning by President Droupadi Murmu on the occasion of Teacher’s Day in New Delhi. The awardees were selected for their innovative pedagogy to inspire students and to shape young minds across the country.
The National Teachers Award winners include awardees from central boards, state schools, and institutions such as Atomic Energy Education Society, Sainik Schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas, and Navodaya Vidyalayas.
The ministry of education has also honoured 21 teachers from higher educational institutions (HEIs) and polytechnics across the country for the National Awards to Teachers (NAT 2025). For the first time, NAT has been extended to cover exemplary faculty members in universities, institutes, and polytechnics, after being earlier restricted to school teachers.
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Of the 21 awardees, three are from IITs, one from IIM Bangalore, five from central universities, and the remaining from IISER, IIST, BITS, deemed universities, state universities, colleges, and a government polytechnic.
Urging the teachers to pay special attention to all students, the President said: “Building the character of students is the primary duty of a teacher. I urged teachers to pay special attention to all students, including girls, who are relatively shy or come from less privileged backgrounds.”
She emphasised on giving importance to girls’ education and investing in the education of daughters. “We must make an invaluable investment in the development of our families, society, and nation,” the President added.
Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan also took to his X account and congratulated all the National Teachers Award recipients.
“On the occasion of ‘Guru Diwas’, heartfelt congratulations to Basant Kumar Rana and Tarun Kumar Dash from Odisha, who have been honored with the prestigious ‘National Teacher Award-2025’ by the Honorable President. The dedication and efforts of teachers like you in providing innovative education to students in remote areas like Malkangiri and Koraput are truly commendable. Your work will always inspire the education community,” the education minister wrote on his X account.
National Teachers’ Award 2025: List of awardees
Here is the list of all awardees along with their respective states, organisations, and schools.
Name | State, UT, Organisation | School Name |
Kandhan Kumaresan | Andaman & Nicobar | Govt. Model Senior Secondary School Aberdeen |
Madabathula Thirumala Sridevi | Andhra Pradesh | Pandit Nehru MPL HS 17Ward |
Nang Ekthani Mounglang | Arunachal Pradesh | Govt. Sec. School Pachin |
Debajit Ghosh | Assam | Namsang TE Model School |
Sonia Vikas Kapoor | Atomic Energy Education Society (DAE) | Atomic Energy Central School No.2 |
Kumari Nidhi | Bihar | Primary School Suhagi |
Dilip Kumar | Bihar | Lalit Narayan Laxmi Narayan Project Girls High School |
Revathy Parameswaran | CBSE | P S Senior Secondary School |
Parveen Kumari | Chandigarh | Government Girls Model Senior Secondary School |
Dr Pragya Singh | Chhattisgarh | Govt Middle School Hanoda Durg |
Madhurima Acharya | CISCE | Delhi Public School Newtown |
Bhaviniben Dineshbhai Desai | Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu | GUPS Bhensroad |
Awadhesh Kumar Jha | Delhi | Sarvodaya Co-Ed Vidyalaya Sector-8 Rohini |
Vilas Ramnath Satarkar | Goa | Dr. K.B. Hedgewar High School Cujira Bambolim Goa |
Hirenkumar Hasmukhbhai Sharma | Gujarat | Primary School Vavdi |
Hitesh Kumar Pravinchandra Bhundiya | Gujarat | Shri Swaminarayan Gurukul Vidyalaya |
Sunita | Haryana | PM SHRI GGSSS Sonepat Murthal Adda (3490) |
Shashi Paul | Himachal Pradesh | Govt. Model Centre Primary School Shamror |
Kuldeep Gupta | Jammu & Kashmir | Govt Higher Secondary School Jindrah |
Shweta Sharma | Jharkhand | Govt M.S. Vivekanand |
Madhusudan K S | Karnataka | Government Higher Primary School Hinakal |
Tarun Kumar Dash | Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan | PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya Koraput |
Kishorkumar M S | Kerala | Government Vocational Higher Secondary School Kallara |
Ibrahim S | Lakshadweep | Govt. Junior Basic School Moola Androth |
Bherulal Osara | Madhya Pradesh | Govt. EPES M.S. Kheriya Susner |
Sheela Patel | Madhya Pradesh | PS Devran Tapriya Pathariya Damoh |
Dr Shaikh Mohammad Waquioddin Shaikh Hamidoddin | Maharashtra | Zilla Parishad Highschool Ardhapur |
Dr Sandipan Gurunath Jagdale | Maharashtra | Dayanand College of Arts Latur |
Koijam Machasana | Manipur | Ghari Upper Primary School |
Dr Heipor Uni Bang | Meghalaya | K.B Memorial Secondary School Wapung |
Peleno Petenilhu | Nagaland | John Govt. Higher Secondary School Viswema |
Santosh Kumar Chaurasia | Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti | PM SHRI School Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Salora Dist Korba |
Basanta Kumar Rana | Odisha | Govt NUPS Kondel |
V Rex Alias Radhakrishnan | Puducherry | Thillaiyadi Valliammai Government High School |
Narinder Singh | Punjab | Government Primary School Jandiali |
Neelam Yadav | Rajasthan | GGSSS Tapukada |
Dr Pramod Kumar | Sainik School (MoD) | Sainik School Nalanda |
Karma Tempo Ethenpa | Sikkim | PM SHRI Mangan SSS |
Vijayalakshmi V | Tamil Nadu | Bharathiyar Centenary Government Girls Higher Secondary School |
Maram Pavithra | Telangana | ZPHS Penpahad |
Bidisha Majumder | Tripura | Hariananda English Medium H.S School |
Madhurima Tiwari | Uttar Pradesh | PM SHRI Composite Vidyalaya Rani Karnawati |
Ram Lal Singh Yadav | Uttar Pradesh | UPS Badawapur |
Manjubala | Uttarakhand | GPS Chyurani |
Tanusree Das | West Bengal | Kuchlachati Primary School |
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