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                                                                                                     gloBal teaCher Prize

                                                                                        Primary school teacher from


                                                                                              maharashtra awarded



                                                                                          primary school teacher
                                                                                          from Maharashtra’s So-
                                                                                 A lapur has won the USD
                                                                                 1 million Global Teacher Prize
                                                                                 for his inspirational work in pro-
                                                                                 moting girls’ education at the
                                                                                 Zilla Parishad Primary School.

       ^ congress workers and supporters attend the Dalit mahapanchayat vir-
        tually addressed by party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, at Party Office in   ranjitsinh disale was given
        lucknow on Friday. (ANi)
                                                                                 the honor for his transfor-

                           PriyanKa gandhi Vadra                                 mational work of translat-           school,” said Disale, who added
                                                                                                                      that he would share half of his
         congress to make new members                                            ing textbooks to the poor  Rs 7.35 crore award money with

                                                                                                                      the other nine finalists, the first
                   to ensure social justice                                      students in their mother             in the Global Teacher Prize’s six-

                                                                                 tongues. this attempt had  year history to do so.
                ongress general secre- gress Dalit unit Alok Prasad,”            helped the girls students                “I  will  share  50  per  cent  of
                tary in-charge of Ut- said a press release. Prasad was                                                the prize money with my fellow
        Ctar Pradesh Priyanka  allegedly arrested in the middle                  immensely. also, by using  top-10  finalists  to  support  their
        Gandhi  Vadra  on  Friday  said  of the night in October. Earlier        Qr codes he made audio               work and use the rest to create a
        the party will make new mem- on Wednesday, the Congress                                                       fund to support teachers who are
        bers in its Scheduled Caste  leader lashed out at Yogi Adi-              poems, video lectures,  doing good work,” Disale said.
        wing to ensure social justice,  tyanath government for failing           stories and assignments                  He  also expressed  gratitude
        prevent crimes against Dal- to control crimes against wom-                                                    to the Varkey Foundation, the
        its and protect scholarships of  en in UP.                               more accessible to the  Maharashtra government’s edu-
        Dalit students.                         “When the government’s           students.                            cation department and the staff
            Gandhi said this at the state  only aim is hypocrisy and false                                            of his District Council.
        party workers conference of  propaganda, then the missions                                                        Over 12,000 were nominat-
        the Scheduled Caste wing on  will fail. The BJP government’s                 “This is a matter of great  ed from over 140 countries and
        Friday.  “The  meeting  was  or- Mission Shakti failed to reduce         pride for teachers all over the  the winning announcement was
        ganized after the release of  rising crimes against women in             country, and for every stu- made from the Natural History
        chairperson of the UP Con- UP,” she tweeted.                             dent studying in a government  Museum in London.


                                                                        ghmC Polls

                                        BJP’s numbers will further decline: trs



                 s the Greater Hyder- for TRS will surface. We will  pers in view of the COVID-19                     ing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minis-
                 abad Municipal Corpo- have our mayor and do pub- pandemic.                                           ter Yogi Adityanath, National
        Aration (GHMC) elec- lic works uninterrupted,” said                          In the Hyderabad city com-       President JP Nadda and Union
        tion vote counting is underway,  Kavitha, Telangana Chief Min- missionerate, 817 new polling                  Minister Amit Shah have cam-
        Telangana  Rashtra  Samithi  ister K Chandrashekar Rao’s  stations have been set up as                        paigned for this election.
        (TRS) MLC Kalvakuntla Ka- daughter,  while  speaking  to  compared to 2016. There are
        vitha on Friday said that Bhara- ANI. The counting of votes for  2,146 normal polling stations,
        tiya Janata Party (BJP) number  the GHMC election began on  1,517 sensitive polling stations,                 in the last ghmC election, the
        will further decline and heavy  Friday morning.                          and 167 hypersensitive polling       telangana  rashtra  samithi
        support for TRS will surface in         After campaigning by re- stations.
        Hyderabad.                           gional and national political           In the latest polls city is      won  in  99 wards.  aimim
            “TRS is winning in most  parties, voting for the GHMC  witnessing a triangular con-                       bagged 44, with the remaining
        seats.  As  voting  was  by  pa- elections was held in 150 wards  test among the ruling TRS, the
        per ballot, we have to wait 3-4  on December 1.                          AIMIM and the BJP, which re-         seven wards won by other par-
        hours to  get exact numbers. I          The mayor’s post is reserved  cently bagged the Dubbak As-            ties and independents.
        believe BJP numbers will fur- for a woman this time. Elections  sembly seat in a recent by-poll.
        ther decline and heavy support  were conducted with ballot pa- The top brass in the BJP, includ-                             (with ANI reports)


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