A recipient of the Global Teacher Award, RanjithsinhDisale, from Maharashtra has been selected for the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Pride Of India Award for 2022. The news of the same from a Twitter post of Dasale, who tweeted a letter of the APJ Abdul Kalam International Foundation. The award will be presented to him on July 27, 2022, at Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu, the birthplace of Dr. Kalam.
He, in 2020 had won the USD 1 million Global Teacher Prize 2020 for his efforts to promote education among girls as well as triggering a quick response (QR) coded textbook revolution in India. He recently resigned from his post as a Zilla Parishad teacher from the Solapur district to pursue higher studies in the USA.
Disable tweeted that it was a great pleasure to accept the award from the family of the great scientist, Kalam, who taught our generation to dream big. “This award has certainly increased my responsibility,” he tweeted.