
Teachers are the best agent of change. Dr S Radhakrishnan, the man whose birth anniversary is observed as Teachers' Day across India once said: "National Integration cannot be built by brick and mortar or with chisel and hammer. It has to grow silently in the minds and hearts of men. The process, by which it could be achieved, is education."
On 5 September, President Pranab Mukherjee joined HRD minister Prakash Javadekar to felicitate 346 teachers from across the country for their contribution to the field of teaching. The awards were given to teachers across primary and secondary categories, as well as teachers from the special category.
Here is the list of all 346 teachers who were awarded on 5 September:
National Award to Teachers - 2015 (given in 2016)
ANDHRA PRADESH
Primary School Teachers
Vuppala Rama Mohan Rao
S. Narasimha Murthy
Pammina Ramadevi
Manipatruni Nageswara Rao
Kadali Naga Venkata Srinivas
Kaithepalli Dass
Secondary School Teachers
Mudunuri Siva Rama Raju
Bandila Mohan
Thotakura Sairama Krishna
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
Primary School Teachers
Prabha Alley
Secondary School Teachers
Manfe Hosai
ASSAM
Primary School Teachers
Tulan Rajguru
Sitangshu Sekhar Das
Hemalata Barua
Bipul Chandra Gogoi
Binu Phukan
Secondary School Teachers
Dimbeswar Saikia
Ranu Borgohain
BIHAR
Primary School Teachers
Pran Mohan Jha
Raj Kishore Raut
Vinay Kumar Dubey
Sarangdhar Singh
Krishna Upadhyay
Secondary School Teachers
Dr. Meena Kumari
Dr. Jagdish Prasad Gupta
Dr. Jawahar Lal Dev
CHATTISGARH
Primary School Teachers
Gokul Prasad Banjare
Chhannulal Banjare
Vinay Sharan Singh
Hitendra Kumar Sharma
Secondary School Teachers
Dr. Ashok Kumar Samsun
Anil Kumar Tiwari
GOA
Primary School Teachers
Flavia S. D'Souza
Secondary School Teachers
Anil Gajanan Samant
GUJARAT
Primary School Teachers
Joshi Bharatkumar Jeshankar
Anjanaben Vithaldas Patel
Bhatt Madhuben Keshavlal
Dr. Dave Prakash Kumar Batukray
Ambabhai Satrabhai Patel
Geetaben Nayankumar Waghela
Solanki Ashokbhai Punjabhai
Rameshchandra Bhanushankar Dave
Prafullaben M. Gohel
Secondary School Teachers
Mayurkumar Mansukhalal Dave
Dr. Mahesh Kumar Meghajibhai Dafda
Dr. Lakshmanbhai Kuberbhai Chaudhari
Harshadba Chandrasinhji Jadeja
HARYANA
Primary School Teachers
Dr. Indu Singh
Rajesh Kumar
Secondary School Teachers
Dr. Meenakshi Sharma
Dr. Ishwar Chand Sharma
Dr. Sumitra Devi
HIMACHAL PRADESH
Primary School Teachers
Shyam Lal
Naresh Kumar Shastri
Secondary School Teachers
Bhupender Gupta
Krishan Chand
JAMMU & KASHMIR
Primary School Teachers
Muneer Ahmad Khan
Kusam Kumari
Secondary School Teachers
Saiqa Shafi Wanchoo
Govind Sharma
JHARKHAND
Primary School Teachers
Raj Kumar Srivastava
Kundan Jha
Secondary School Teachers
Dr. Maya Kumari
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
KARNATAKA
Primary School Teachers
R.C. Parvathamma
D.H. Lakshmanaiah
Bhojappab
Lokeshwarachar S.E.
V. Prabhakar Hegde
Neelappa Dyavappa Goravar
Shivaleela Hanumantappa Padmasali
Sangappa Basappa Bagewadi
Sangappa Gaji
Secondary School Teachers
K.N. Shankara Shetty
H.B. Devaraju
Mala Gopalkrishna Gourayya
Dhanaji Tukaram Kamble
Special Category (Secondary)
Shantaram B. Jogale
KERALA
Primary School Teachers
G. Vijayan Nair
R. Radhakrishnan
V.N. Sadasivan Pillai
Deepan K.S.
T.G. Gopinathan Pillai
Remani V.S.
Srinivasan P.
Secondary School Teachers
P.K. Abdul Hameed
C.K. Biju
Seethi P.A.
K.K. Raman
Dr. Aby Paul
Shakeela C.B.
Jayakumar M.G.
MADHYA PRADESH
Primary School Teachers
Anirudh Pratap Singh
Ram Naresh Singh
Praveen Kumar Sonkiya
Sudha Dubey
Sandhya Vishvakarma
Ram Prasad Sen
Devki Nayak
Kamlesh Sharma
Secondary School Teacher
Dr. Purnima Sharma
Pradeep Kumar Pandey
Dr. Ratiram Dhakar
Upendra Kumar Gurudev
SPECIAL CATEGORY (SECONDARY)
Shashank Shukla
MAHARASHTRA
Primary School Teachers
Pawar Sharmila Mohan
Sambhaji Govind Patil
Ware Dattatray Babanrao
Holemukhe Sudam Ishwar
Shrawan Waman Jadhav
Pradip Maruti Manjrekar
Anil Devdan Mohite
Jadhav Hanumant rang
Sanjeev Pandurang Chougule
Mhetre Somnath Pandurang
Chougule Vimal Gundurao
Patil Machhindranath Vasudev
Shivaji Dattu Sonawane
Wagh Balasheb Sandipan
Waychal Madhav Kundalik
Sudhakar Jagannath Madavi
Dhamane Namdev Sakharam
Shintre Suhas Arjun
SPECIAL CATEGORY (PRIMARY)
Sandeep Murlidhar Adhav
Kalane Shivaji Kaluram
Secondary School Teacher
Dr. Dolly Gavin Henry
Pandurang Rangrao Sankpal
Lobo Beena Ronny
Mahamuni Kamalakar Murlidhar
Bhor Vitthal Maruti
Samita Goutam Patil
Narendra Bhagwat Pathak
Sulgekar Arun Bahirji
Special Category (secondary)
Shewale Niwas Yashwant
MANIPUR
Primary School Teachers
Sapam Binodkumari Devi
Secondary School Teachers
Sinam Indrani Devi
MEGHALAYA
Primary School Teachers
Denis G Nongsiej
Secondary School Teachers
Audrey R. Marak
MIZORAM
Primary School Teachers
J. Lalrinmawii
Secondary School Teachers
H. Ngurthansanga
NAGALAND
Primary School Teachers
Kedupe-u Wetsah
ODISHA
Primary School Teachers
Bibasini Mishra
Pradeep Kumar Mishra
Diptimayee Lenka
Bijaya Kumar Nath
Charulata Mishra
Amarendra Nayak
Pradip Kumar Mishra
Secondary School Teachers
Pranab Kumar Sahu
Brajendra Kumar Dash
Bhupati Bhusan Mishra
Special Category (sanskrit)
Shyamasundar Panda
Arabic/Persian Teachers
Abdul Musawwir
PUNJAB
Primary School Teachers
Rajwinder Kaur
Balwinder Kaur
Megh Dass
Parminder Singh
Secondary School Teachers
Om Prakash Setia
Mandeep Kaur
Rajinder Kumar
RAJASTHAN
Primary School Teachers
Dr. Bhagirath Singh
Yasin Khan Chauhan
Jagdish Prasad Sharma
Rajesh Ojha
Kalpana Dadhich
Sohan Lal Vaswani
Meethalal Joshi
Secondary School Teachers
Dr. Tejraj Mewada
Ruparam Patel
Geeta Balwada
Suresh Chandra Patidar
Nirmala Devi
Sanskrit Teacher
Ram Singh Jat
Dr. Alka Paliwal
SIKKIM
Primary School Teachers
Prithi Man Rai
Secondary School Teachers
Miss. Chumzay Nangpa
TAMIL NADU
Primary School Teachers
K. Syed Basheer
Barnabas A.
Balu R.
G. Sathiyamoorthi
C. Palaniammal
Pavun K.
S. Abirami
S. Ganesan
P. Dhanalakshmi
Ponnagesa S.
C. Thangavelu
K. Chandrasekar
K. S. Mani
K. Kalavathi
S. Thangalakshmi
Secondary School Teachers
Saraswathi S.
V. Raju
N. D. Natarajan
Bro. Varghese K. J.
N. Ramanisekar
A. Vijayakumar
Dr. S. Gnanasekaran
Special Category (secondary)
M.V. Ravichandran
TELANGANA
Primary School Teachers
Bollepalli Madhusudana Raju
R. Ramesh Babu
Meenapureddy Buchi Reddy
K. Govind
Secondary School Teachers
Manganoor Venkatesh
Thoomu Sreenivasa Rao
Parikipandla Venu
TRIPURA
Primary School Teachers
Ananta Chakma
Headmaster (Pry Sec)
Secondary School Teachers
Bidhan Nandy
UTTAR PRADESH
Primary School Teachers
Nasim Ahmad
Prakash Chandra Chakravarty
Bharti Mishra
Sudha Devi Shukla
Krishna Prasad Yadav
Kunwarsen
Asrar Ahmad Khan
Ram Gulam
Shadab Qamar
Uma Shankar Singh
Munish Chandra
Bikrama Singh Yadav
Abdul Wahid
Subhash Chandra Srivastava
Satya Prakash Panday
Ramsawari Devi
Fazil Ahmad Khan
Special Category (primary)
Ajit Kumar Dwivedi
Chaman Shukla
Secondary School Teachers
Sudha Rani Katiyar
Dr. Satya Prakash
Dr. Surendra Singh Yadav
Vandana Tewari
Dr. Bijendra Singh
Anwar Jahan
Ram Narayan Batham
Vasistha Bhardwaj
(Sanskrit Teachers)
Dr. Haridwar Shukla
Satish Chandra Tiwari
Special Category (secondary)
Dr. Rajeev Kumar
UTTARAKHAND
Primary School Teachers
Hukum Singh Uniyal
Vidya Lohani
Rajani Negi
Kalyan Singh Mankoti
Secondary School Teachers
Bipin Chandra Pandey
Pradeep Kumar Dabral
Nanda Rawat
WEST BENGAL
Primary School Teacher
Prahlad Kumar Biswas
Dr. Amal Kumar Roy
Md. Ezazul Haque
Durba Brahma
Benoy Gajamer
Mousumi Pramanik (Acharjee)
Bipul Kumar Barik
Dr. Vivekananda Chakraborty
Utpal Mukhopadhyay
Swati Dutta
Kshama Roy
Khagendra Nath Chakraborty
Md. Abdul Kuddus Mondal
Jagabandhu Mahata
Special Category (primary)
Jaba Maji
Secondary School Teacher
Arup Kumar Chowdhuri
Santanu Gayen
Nibaran Chandra Mahato
Papia Nag,
Debabrata Mukherjee
Bijan Kumar Saha
Dr. Samabrata Sarkar
ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLAND
Primary School Teachers
Dr. Lalitha Rao
Secondary School Teachers
Chanchal Singha Roy
CHANDIGARH
Secondary School Teachers
Dr. Arun Kumar Sharma
DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI
Primary School Teachers
Manisha Someshwar Pawar
Secondary School Teachers
Valand Pravinkumar Maganlal
DAMAN & DIU
Primary School Teachers
Bharatkumar C. Mahyavanshi
Secondary School Teachers
Patel Dineshchandra Govind
DELHI
Primary School Teachers
Baljeet Kaur
Brajesh Kumar Jadon
Secondary School Teachers
Neerja Lamba
Sujata Mehra
LAKSHADWEEP
Primary School Teachers
M. Kunhi Koya
Secondary School Teachers
U. Basheer
PUDUCHERRY
Primary School Teachers
K. Saroja Devi
Secondary School Teachers
S. Muruganandam
Atomic Energy Education Society (AEES)
Primary School Teachers
Sanjib Ranjan Mohanta
Secondary School Teachers
B.S.K. Raju
Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE)
Secondary School Teachers
Neeraj Kumar Bedhotiya
Dr. Paramjit Kaur
Renu Sehgal
Dr. Satyabrata Minaketan
Dr. Manohar Lal
Dr. Ashok Singh
Rupa Devi Sharma
Sharad Chandra Tiwari
Arunesh Kumar
P. C. Philip
Anita Panda
M. Varalakshmi
Geeta Laxmi Sathyanathan
Thomas Mathew
Sunita Tanwar
Dr. Subhash Bhaskaran Nair
Durga Tandon
Papiya Mukherjee
Special Category
Anuradha Joshi
Usha C.K. Mani
Sanskrit Teachers
Hari Prasad Sharma
Sambhu Nath Mishra
Devy M.P.
Sushma Singh
Primary School Teachers
Indira Ramraju
Sarita Mehta
Aloka Chakraborty
Sanover Abad
Surekha David
Chitralekha Panda
Special Category (primary)
Babita Jain
P. Baburaj
Secondary School Teacher
S. Casilda Nimmi Retna Bai
N.D. Sarmah
Champa Negi
Dheer Singh
Rashmi Mishra
Vinay Prabha Jain
Special Category (secondary)
Vinod Kumar
Awdhesh Kumar Kaushal
Sanskrit Teachers
Virendra Kumar
K. Leena Madan
Ram Diya
Rangi Satyanarayana
Dr. Chatura Nand Choudhary
NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI
Primary School Teachers
Chayanath
Secondary School Teachers
S. Kannan
SCHOOLS UNDER MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Primary School Teachers
J.D. Ananda Rao
Secondary School Teachers
Kavita Prakash
CISCE
Secondary School Teachers
Kirtida Desai
Surendra Kumar Gaur
ICT AWARDS
Uttam Kumar Dewangan
Suchetha. S.S
Keshav Das Gupta
Manoj Kumar
S. Dharmaraj
M. Vijayakumar
Ashutosh Anand
S.Simon Peeter Paul
Rachael Irani
N. Anuradha
Amit Kumar
Each teacher received a Certificate of Merit, a silver medal and a cash prize of Rs 50000.