Teachers' Day: Honouring Unsung Heroes Making Difference To Students바카라™ Lives Too

Teachers walk into one's life in schools and colleges and sometimes outside these edifices. But the mark they leave in your life is an indelible one. 

Teachers Day provides an opportunity to honour unsung personalities who have made a difference to their wards by not just providing them with an education, but also by empowering them with life lessons about dealing with emotions and friends, making decisions, or just by being more humane. 

Assam바카라™s Uttam Teron was just a paan-chewing man who loved shooting breeze with his friends in the state바카라™s Kamrup district, until he saw young tribal children scouring for firewood instead of attending school. Moved by their plight, Teron started a makeshift school in the area in his old, unused cowshed in 2003 and now runs an academy for 700 children. 

Deepak Narayan Nayak is also known as 바카라˜Rastar Master바카라™ in West Bengal바카라™s Jamuria village. He entered the lives of young tribal children in the village on a motorcycle, on which he travels from one place to another imparting free coaching to students after school hours. 

Saquib Ahmed바카라™s personal initiative sparked off a library movement in Bihar바카라™s Kishanganj, a district which did not have a single library. 

In Bihar바카라™s East Champaran district, Premchandra Ram has introduced the spirit of competitive learning to students from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes by starting an examination coaching programme 바카라˜Super-30바카라™ dedicated to guiding them for such tests. 

Jyoti from Karnal in Haryana rebelled against her family and her village to inspire girls and young women to enrol in schools. 
Priya Gopalen and Sandhya Rajan took it on themselves to start a football coaching centre in Chennai to enable children with a passion for the sport to take a plunge. 

Outlook has curated a selection of profiles of personalities who have made a difference in their pupils바카라™ lives. Some of them are teachers, but not all of them are associated with formal roles as educators in schools and colleges. But all their stories have lessons for the taking.