SILCHAR, Sept 5: "Teachers arethe main architect of building a great nation. They are the ideals and role models of the society in general and students in particular," said Debasish Chakraborty, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Cachar, while addressing the mammoth gathering of teachers and students during the day-long celebration of 51st Teachers' Day at district library auditorium here today.
He said that students always try to imitate their teachers intheir lives. "If they were enriched with proper education, the fate of the nation would always shine." He said only proper educationcould curb all the evils and destruction from which the country has been suffering. He requested the teachers' community as a whole to extend their help in resolving the various social problems ofthe country.
Satya Bushan Paul, professor of Chemistry, Assam University, Silchar, as well as ascientist, who graced the occasion as chief guest, laid emphasis on creating 'scientific bent of mind' among students from their initial stage so that they could explore many more things in the future. He at the same time said that teachers should provide the origin and history of every chapter that they taught the students which would create their more interest on the subject and subsequently their horizon of knowledge would also be broaden. He however expressed his disappointmenton the present education system as he said that he had witnessed instances where the graduates could not writean application correctly even in their mother tongues that indicates the presence of loopholes in our education system.
Bibash Ranjan Chowdhury, former teacher of Guru Charan College and a memberof Assam Public Service Commission, underlined the importance of character building of students by the teachers. "Our duty is to create a man not a machine," he added. Samar Kanti Roy Chowdhury, former principal of Nehru Higher Secondary School, Pailapool, said the "dedication" and "commitment" should be the main mantras of a teacher.
Sushmita Deb, MLA, Cachar, expressed her concern at the low teacher student ratio especially in the rural areas. She said that she was taken aback to know that there were so many schools in the districts that lack teachers. She, however, assured that the vacancies would be filled up soon.
As part of the day-long programme, a good number of songs and dances were performed, besides a total of 35 teachers of the district were felicitated for their remarkable contribution in the field of teaching and learning.
The teachers who were felicitated included Mohammed Jawad Ali Chowdhury, retired head master, 944 no South Baskandi L P School, Sambit Mahato, Headmaster, 1348 noKanakpur East Hindi L P School, Shibani Das Chowdhury, retired Headmistress, 678 no. Das Colony L P School, Bubhan Mohan Chand, retired head master, 617 no Joyram Junior Basic School, Gobindlal Gour, retired Headmaster, Borakhai Garden LP School, MohammedHussain Ahmed Khadem, retired Headmaster, 1010 no Santipur LP School, Madan Mohan Koiri, retired Headmaster, 483 Putikal LP School, Gauri Shankar Chobey,, Kandigram L P School, Basanti Sinha, retired Headmistress, Pangram JuniorBasic School, Jayanta Roy Chowdhury, assistant teacher,Burunga M E School, Md. Hamidur Rehman Chowdhury,retired head master, Sribar MESchool, Md Taj Uddin Laskar, retired head master, A Raja ME School, Sonai, Md Mainul Hoque Laskar, retired head master, Chandipur Public ME Madrasa, Salchapara, Jitendra Das, Headmaster, Swami Vivekananda multipurpose MEschool, Silchar, Durga Das Dutta Chowdhury,Headmaster,Ram Krishna ME school, Misbha Uddin Chowdhury, retired Headmaster, Narsingpur Boys MV school, Anjan Kumar Nath, Headmaster, Tarapur MV school, Narayan Chandra Ghosh, Assistant teacher, BNMP school, Dholai, Atanu Kumar Deb, retired Headmaster Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Shivnath Misra, retiredHeadmaster, Nehru HS school,Pailapool, Amir Uddin Barbhuiya, retired assistant teacher, Binnakandi HS School, Snigdha Chowdhury, subject teacher, Adharchand HS School, Jalal Uddin Barbhuiya, retired subject teacher, Zilkadhar Ali HS School, Arunachal, Apurba Kumar Nath, subject teacher, Sonai NGHS School, Tapati Chakraborty, principal, Tarapur Governments Girls HS School, Raj Kumar Tiwary, Hindi teacher, YS Memorial high school, Ajita Gupta, head mistress, Malugram Girls School, Anjana Dey, Science teacher, Rongpur Ramkumar ME School, Udharbond, Amit Chakraborty head master, S C Deb Vidyapith, Tarapur, Alauddin Laskar, principal in charge, Bashkandi NM HS School, Samir Medhi, assistantteacher, Narsing HS school, Swastika Das, principal in charge, DNNK Girls HS School, Ashima Das, head mistress, Netaji Vidya Bhawan, Girls High School, Nanigopal Das, retired head master, Bam Naba Kumar Memorial High School, Dholai, Mukta Das (Paul), principal Adharchand Higher Secondary School.
A souvenir of 124 pages was also released in the programme. Other dignitariespresent included H K Deb Mahanta, Deputy Commissioner of Cachar, Nibaran Das, Inspector of Schools, Kabil Uddin, district Elementary Education officer, Jahar Lal Roy, Deputy Inspector of schools. (SentinelAssam)
Teachers honoured on Teachers’ Day in Cachar
