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National Teachers Awards 2026: The Central Government has announced the names of 48 teachers for the National Teachers Awards 2026. These teachers will be honored for their contributions to the field of school education and literacy. The Department of School Education and Literacy under the Ministry of Education has released the list of awardees. President Droupadi Murmu will confer the National Teachers Awards upon these teachers on September 5. September 5 is celebrated as Teachers' Day across the country.

Which states and institutions are represented?
The teachers selected for the award hail from various states and Union Territories. Additionally, the list includes teachers from institutions such as Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Sainik Schools, Model Tribal Schools, and PM SHRI Schools.

The selected teachers include J. Prakash Rao from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Rajesh Koluri from Andhra Pradesh, Yaku Tame from Arunachal Pradesh, Rajesh Bordoloi from Assam, and Suman Goyal from Delhi. Zafar Alam from the Eklavya Model Residential Schools (under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs) has also been selected.

Who else has been honored?
The list also includes Mahadev Hanmant Shinde (Goa), Nitin Kumar Mahendrakumar Pathak (Gujarat), Anil Kaushik (Haryana), Manjari V. Mahajan (Himachal Pradesh), Mohammad Ayaz Raina (Jammu & Kashmir), and Archana Shukla (Madhya Pradesh). Furthermore, teachers from regions including Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, and Ladakh have been selected for the award.

View the full list here:

S.No. Name    State / Union Territory / Organization
1    J. Prakash Rao    Andaman & Nicobar Islands
2    Rajesh Koluri    Andhra Pradesh
3    Yaku Tame    Arunachal Pradesh
4    Rajesh Bordoloi    Assam
5    Khushbu Kumari    Bihar
6    Pushpa Prasad    Bihar
7    Radha Rajesh    CISCE
8    Sangeeta Yadav    CBSE 9    Ravi Jaiswal    Chandigarh
10    Sunita Yadav    Chhattisgarh
11    Patel Purnima Mohanlal    Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
12    Suman Goyal    Delhi
13    Md. Zafar Alam    Eklavya Model Residential School (Ministry of Tribal Affairs)
14    Mahadev Hanmant Shinde    Goa
15    Nitinkumar Mahendrakumar Pathak    Gujarat
16    Anil Kaushik    Haryana
17    Manjari V Mahajan    Himachal Pradesh
18    Mohammad Ayaz Raina    Jammu and Kashmir
19    Munmun Bhattacharjee    Jharkhand
20    Ratnakumari S    Karnataka
21    Amutha J    Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
22    Dr. Manisha Kshetrapal    Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
23    Sunil Kumar KP    Kerala
24    Mohammad Mustafa Kumal    Ladakh
25    Dr. Archana Shukla    Madhya Pradesh
26    Shailendra Pratap Singh    Madhya Pradesh
27    Dr. Kavita Narsingrao Gitte    Maharashtra
28    Kunda Jaywant Bachhav    Maharashtra
29    Wanglembam Gobin Singh    Manipur
30    Lalnunmawi    Mizoram
31    R Ronald Meru    Nagaland
32    Vaibhav Vasantrao Kulkarni    Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti
33    Padraj Umakant Nayak    Odisha
34    Ganesan S    Puducherry
35    Dinesh Kumar    Punjab
36    Dr. Divyendu Sen    Rajasthan
37    Dr. Vartika Gulati    Rajasthan
38    Shivprasad Arvind Tingre    Sainik Schools under Ministry of Defence
39    Sushma Tamang    Sikkim
40    Thanga Raj M    Tamil Nadu
41    Bhavani Bompelli    Telangana
42    Ranjan Debnath    Tripura
43    Dr. Renu Tripathi    Uttar Pradesh
44    Dr. Iftikhar Khan    Uttar Pradesh
45    Shalini Kushwaha    Uttar Pradesh
46    Gabar Singh    Uttarakhand
47    Palash Chowdhury    West Bengal
48    Shantanu Patra    West Bengal

Find out how many teachers were selected from each state. A total of 48 teachers from various states, Union Territories, and educational organizations across the country have been included in the list for the National Teachers' Award 2026; Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra (including the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti) have the highest representation, with three teachers selected from each. Meanwhile, two teachers each have been selected from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and West Bengal. Additionally, one teacher each from Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Ladakh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, and Uttarakhand has secured a place on the list. Among the Union Territories, one teacher each from Andaman & Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, and Delhi has also been included.

Under the institutional and board categories, two teachers from the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan have been selected, while one teacher each has been chosen from the CBSE, CISCE, Sainik Schools (under the Ministry of Defence), and Eklavya Model Residential Schools (under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs).

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