5,000 teachers to be appointed in the current year: CM Basavaraja Bommai

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, Sep 06, 2021: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday announced that action would be taken to appoint 5,000 teachers in the state in the current year.

 

CM Basavaraj Bommai was speaking after presenting the Best Teachers Awards at the Teacher’s Day programme organised at Banquet Hall, Vidhana Soudha.

Responding to the request made by the Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, B C Nagesh, the CM said that 5,000 teachers would be recruited.

The CM said that the 21st century is the century of knowledge. The country is swiftly moving forward from knowledge to science, from science to technology and from technology to software. He said that it is inevitable that the teachers must adjust to the speed. He opined that one can become a good teacher only if he is a good student.

Bommai said that teachers who encourage children to ask questions are genuine teachers. The New Education Policy is being implemented and teachers must come out with their opinions and doubts and discuss openly on the matter. The new education policy which is student centric must be successfully implemented, he added.

The minister congratulated the teachers who worked hard during the pandemic and who successfully conducted the SSLC exams, and remembered the teachers who lost their lives to Covid-19.The CM inaugurated the ’Namma Shaale, nanna Koduge’ software which was formulated to transfer the contribution made towards development of schools.Rizwan Arshad, MLA, president, and senior officials were present on the occasion.

Courtesy:India Today