Dr.Radhakrishnan Best Teacher Award

 https://nationalawardstoteachers.education.gov.in/

https://www.awards.gov.in/

Conditions of Eligibility of Teachers

• School teachers and Heads of Schools working in recognized primary / middle / high / higher secondary schools under the following categories:
• Schools run by State Govt./UTs Administration, schools run by local bodies, schools aided by State Govt. and UT Administration and Private schools affiliated to State/UTs Board.
• Central Govt. Schools i.e. Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs), Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs), Sainik Schools run by Ministry of Defence (MoD), Schools run by Atomic Energy Education Society (AEES) and Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) run by Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
• Schools affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) (other than those at (a) and (b) above)
• Schools affiliated to Council for Indian Schools Certificate Examination (CISCE) (Other than those at (a), (b) and (c) above)
• Normally retired teachers are not eligible for the award but those teachers who have served a part of the calendar year (at least for four months i.e. upto 30th April in the year to which National Awards relate) may be considered if they fulfill all other conditions.
• Educational Administrators, Inspectors of Education, and the staff of training Institutes are not eligible for these awards.
• Teacher / Headmaster should not have indulged in tuitions.
• Only regular Teachers and Heads of Schools with minimum ten years of services are eligible.
• Contractual Teachers and Shiksha Mitras are not eligible.
• The numbers of awards have been rationalized to 45+2, as against the earlier 378, thereby restoring the prestige of the awards.
• In addition, 2 teachers under Special Category could be selected from differently abled teachers etc., if any.
• No State, UT or Organization has a quota in the final selection. This encouraged them to compete for the awards truly at National level.
• The final selection is done by an Independent Jury from amongst nominations received from States/UTs and Organizations, thereby ensuring that the role of these agencies was not diluted under the new scheme.
• The nominated teachers make a presentation before the Jury for final selection. This ensures that all of them are given an opportunity to share the work done by them.

• Procedure For Application And Selection

• All the applications would be received through an online web portal.
• Ministry of Education would ensure coordination with States/UTs regarding timely submission / entry into the portal and resolution of technical and operational issues during data entry into portal through the portal development agency.
• Ministry of Education will bear the entire expenditure for development and maintenance of the portal.
• In case of State/UTs, teachers and heads of schools themselves shall apply directly by filling the application form online through the web portal before the prescribed cut-off date.
• Every applicant shall submit a portfolio, online along with the Entry Form. The portfolio shall include relevant supporting material such as documents, tools, reports of activities, field visits, photographs, audios or videos etc.
• Undertaking by the applicant: Each applicant shall give an undertaking that all the information/data submitted is true to the best of his/her knowledge and if anything is found at any later date to be untrue then he/she will be liable to disciplinary action.

• Considerations to guide the selection of teachers upto State / UT / Organization levels

  Teachers will be evaluated based on the evaluation matrix given at Annexure-I. Evaluation matrix contains two types of criteria for evaluation:

• Objective criteria : Under this the teachers will be awarded marks against each of the objective criteria. These criteria are given the weightage of 10 out of 100.
• Criteria based on performance : Under this, teachers will be awarded marks on criteria based on performance e.g. initiatives to improve learning outcomes, innovative experiments undertaken, organization of extra and co-curricular activities, use of Teaching Learning Material, social mobility, ensuring experiential learning, unique ways to ensure physical education to students etc. These criteria are given the weightage of 90 out of 100.

• District Selection Committee (DSC)

  District Selection Committee may be constituted by State/UT Education Dept

  (a)  First level scrutiny will be done by District Selection Committee (DSC) headed by

  • i)  District Education Officer : Chairperson
  • ii)  Representative of State/UT Govt. : Member
  • iii)  One Reputed academician nominated by District Collector : Member

  Efforts may be made to the extent possible to change the names of committee members 

  5. The State Selection 

  (a) The State Selection Committee (SSC) will be headed by Principal Secretary / 

  • (i)  Principal Secretary/ Secretary of State Education Department : Chairperson
  • (ii)  Nominee of Union Govt. : Member
  • (iii)  Director/Commissioner of Education : Member Secretary
  • (iv)  Director, SCERT or equivalent if there is no SCERT : Member

  Efforts may be made to the extent possible to change the names of committee members 
• every year.

  (b)  The major functions to be performed by DSC are as under:

  • i)  Physical verification of the facts/ information provided by the applicant by forming 
  • verification teams.
  • ii)  Evaluation/ marking of the applicants as per the format at Annexure-I.
  • iii)  Certificate by DSC: The DSC shall certify that marks have been awarded after due 
  • verification of the facts.
  • iv)  After the detailed evaluation of the applications, DSC will shortlist 3 names and
  •  forward these to State Selection Committee through online portal along with 
  • vigilance clearance certificate of each of the 3 applicants.
  • v)  In addition to the applications received, the DSC in exceptional circumstances, 
  • may suo-moto consider name of maximum one person among the outstanding 
  • teachers including special educators and differently abled teachers/heads of schools. 
  • The evaluation will be done as per the format at Annexure-I.
  • vi)  DSC may take into account performance of teachers in various streams of studies viz. science, arts, music, physical education etc.

•  the District Education Officer. Members of DSC would be as under :

• Committee (SSC)

• every year.

  (b)  The major functions to be performed by SSC are as under:

  • (i)  Re-verification of the facts/ information/marks of the nominations received from all the DSCs.
  • (ii)  Evaluate all the nominations and prepare shortlist of the best 
  • candidates, subject to the maximum number allotted to the States/UTs as per Annexure-III and forward the same to Independent Jury at National level through online portal.

• Secretary of State Education Department. Members of SSC will be as under :