National Awards to Teachers 2025: Under the National Teachers Award 2025, 45 outstanding teachers selected from across the country will be honored by President Draupadi Murmu on Teachers' Day (5 September) this year. The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, has released the list of teachers who will be awarded this prestigious award.

The purpose of this award is to recognize teachers who have made significant contributions in the field of education and to inspire other teachers with their work.

From which states are the teachers selected?
The teachers selected for the National Teachers Award 2025 include 33 teachers from Maharashtra and Bihar. Apart from this, 2-2 teachers have been selected from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. The special thing is that this time, 5 teachers from PM Shri Schools have also been selected for this honor. This award will be given to those teachers from different states and union territories of the country who have made a significant contribution to improving the quality of education and the overall development of the students.

Full List of National Teacher Award Winners 2025

Sl. No. Name School/Address State/Organization

1 Sunita PM Shri GGSSS, Sonipat Murthal Ed (3490), Sonipat, Haryana

2 Shashi Paul Government Model Centre, Primary Shamror School, Solan, Himachal Pradesh

3 Narinder Singh Government Primary School Jandiali, Ludhiana, Punjab

4 Awadhesh Kumar Jha Sarvodaya Co-Ed Vidyalaya, Sector-8 Rohini, Delhi

5 Manjubala GPS Churani, Champawat, Uttarakhand

6 Parveen Kumari Government Girls Model Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, Chandigarh

7 Neelam Yadav Tapukda, Khairthal-Tijara, Rajasthan, Rajasthan

8 Bhaviniben Dineshbhai Desai GUPS Bhainsroad Dadra & Nagar Haveli & Daman & Diu

9 Vilas Ramnath Satarkar Dr. K.B. Hedgewar High School, Cujira Bambolim, North Goa, Goa
10 Hitesh Kumar Pravinchandra Bhundia Shri Swaminarayan Gurukul Vidyalaya, Rajkot, Gujarat
11 Hirankumar Hasmukhbhai Sharma Primary School, Vavdi, Near Gandhipura Kheda, Gujarat
12 Sheela Patel PS Devran Taparia Patharia Damoh, Damoh Madhya Pradesh
13 Bherulal Osara Government EPES MS Khedia Susner, Agar Malwa, Madhya Pradesh
14 Dr. Pragya Singh Government Middle School Hanoda, Durg, Chhattisgarh
15 Kuldeep Gupta Government Higher Secondary School Jindrah, Jammu Jammu & Kashmir
16 Ramlal Singh Yadav UPS Barwapur, Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh
17 Madhurima Tiwari PM Shri Composite Vidyalaya Rani Karnavati, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh
18 Kumari Nidhi Primary School, Suhagi, Kishanganj, Bihar
19 Dilip Kumar Lalit Narayan Project Girls High School, Supaul, Bihar
20 Sonia Vikas Kapoor Atomic Energy Central School No. 2, Mumbai, Maharashtra (Atomic Energy School)
21 Kandhan Kumarson Government Model Senior Secondary School, Aberdeen, South Andaman, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
22 Santosh Kumar Chourasiya PM Shri School, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Salora, Korba, Chhattisgarh (NVS)
23 Dr. Pramod Kumar Sainik School Nalanda, Nalanda, Bihar (Sainik School, Ministry of Defence)
24 Tarun Kumar Das PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya, Koraput, Odisha (KVS)
25 Basanta Kumar Rana Government NUPS Kondel, Malkangiri, Odisha
26 Tanushree Das Kuchla Chatti Primary School, Medinipur, West Bengal
27 Nang Ekthani Monglang Government Secondary School, Pachin, Papum Pare, Arunachal Pradesh
28 Pelino Petnilhu John Government Higher Secondary School, Viswema, Kohima, Nagaland
29 Koijam Machsana Ghari Upper Primary School, Imphal West, Manipur
30 Karma Tempo, Athenpa PM Shri Mangan SSS, Mangan Sikkim
31 Dr. Heipor Uni Bang K.B. Memorial Secondary School, Wapung, East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya
32 Bidisha Majumdar Hariyananda English Medium H.S. School, Gomti Tripura
33 Debjit Ghosh Namsang TE Model School, Dibrugarh, Assam
34 Shweta Sharma Govt. M.S. Vivekananda, Deoghar, Jharkhand
35 Dr. Sheikh Mohammed Waqiuddin Sheikh Hamiduddin Zilla Parishad High School, Ardhapur, Nanded, Maharashtra
36 Dr. Sandipan Gurunath Jagdale Dayanand College of Arts, Latur, Maharashtra
37 Ibrahim S Government Junior Basic School, Moola Androth, Lakshadweep
38 Madhurima Acharya Delhi Public School, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal (CISCE)
39 Madabathula Tirumala Sridevi Pandit Nehru MPL HS 17 Ward, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
40 Maram Pavithra ZPHS Penpahad, Suryapet, Telangana
41 Revathi Parameswaran PS Senior Secondary School, Chennai, Tamil Nadu (CBSE)
42 Vijayalakshmi V Bharathiyar Centenary Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu
43 Kishorekumar M.S. Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Kallara, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
44 Dr. V Rex Elias Radhakrishnan Tillayadi Valliammal Government High School, Puducherry
45 Madhusudan K.S. Government Higher Primary School, Hinkal, Mysuru, Karnataka
The awardees were selected through a rigorous step-by-step selection process conducted by the department, and the process includes district, state, and national level assessments. A total of 45 teachers will be felicitated at the event. The National Awards for Teachers were first introduced in 1958, the guidelines were revised in 2018.
The awardees will be given a cash prize of Rs 50,000, a silver medal and a certificate of appreciation.

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