Haryana teacher gets National Award for innovation in education

Chandigarh,
18
November, 2018

It is
well said, “Equipping teachers with technology that will automate the boring work, will
enhance education and make it more powerful.”

Therefore,
Parmod Kumar, working with Haryana’s Directorate of School Education, has been
selected for National Award for innovative use of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) in teaching-learning.

Parmod
working as State Programme officer with the Directorate has been selected among
43 such teachers from across the country to be awarded this year with “National
Award for Teachers for use of ICT in Education”.

The awards
would be given on November 21 in New Delhi by the Union Ministry of Human
Resource of Development.

A Post
Graduate Teacher (Psychology) in Haryana government, Parmod would be given National
Award for inventing ‘Mobile Projector’, a unique device that runs without electricity
and has emerged as a useful tool in utilisation of ICT in education.

Parmod
said, “All around the world nearly 32 percent public schools are without electricity
and in India it is estimated at 19 percent. In such situation this mobile projector
is very useful tool to strengthen the education by using ICT. For this, we do
not need any big smart classroom or computer lab. It works with the mobile of
teacher. It is very useful and popular in schools falling in remote areas
around the world.”

In
fact, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) too believe that the ‘Mobile Learning’ is the modern way to improve
education, he added.

Parmod’s
Mobile Projector had been successfully showcased at UNESCO, Paris during Mobile
Learning Week. Apart from this, he had also given presentation in Washington.

Another
teacher who has been selected from Haryana for the said award this year is Rajkumar Arya.

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