Delhi government has decided to celebrate Teachers' day this year as ‘Abhar Diwas’ and felicitate 122 teachers for discharging their duties diligently during the Covid-19 pandemic, said state Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday. “This year's Teachers' awards will be special.
We have made some changes to the criteria for the awards. Earlier, awards were given based on academic performance only. It was decided that for awards, the major criteria would be the remarkable works done by teachers during the Covid pandemic," said Sisodia.
He said that of the 1,108 applications received for the Delhi government's teachers' awards, 122 have been finalised by a panel.