Out of 15,000, only four teachers apply for state awards from Doaba

Academic performance, including subject results, welfare activities in connection with education, social awareness about education etc, are the criteria for sending applications for the state award. “Here teachers are hardly eligible for such awards because of consistently poor results of large number of teachers,” said a senior education officer.

DEO Nawanshahr Kulwant Singh (both secondary and elementary) said that from their district only one teacher, Bakhshish, of Government Middle School Kahlon had sent his case and it was forwarded to the Education Department Chandigarh. He said: “There is no limit on the applications that can be sent, but we received only one.”

Similarly DEO Hoshiarpur Sukhwinder Kaur said that in their district one female teacher from Government Senior Secondary School Pathial has sent her case.

From Jalandhar, Principal Ajit Singh of Government Senior Secondary School Jandiala has sent his application, while Principal Jagtar of Nangal Majha School in Phagwara, Kapurthala, has also applied.