'Bravo!': Anupam Kher congratulates Maharashtra teacher for winning $1 mn global prize

A primary teacher Ranjitsinh Disale from Maharashtra's Solapur district recently won USD 1-million Global Teacher Prize 2020. official Twitter handle of Global Teacher Prize shared a video while anuncing news. Veteran actor Anupam Kher who was delighted to hear good news was quick eugh to congratulate teacher for his efforts towards society.

Anupam Kher congratulates Maharashtra teacher 

Anupam took to Twitter and wrote, “This is phemenal!! Ranjitsingh Disale from Solapur gets Global Teacher Prize 2020. Bravo. Congratulations and Jai Ho.” 32-year-old actor who works as a teacher at Zilla Parish Primary School at Paritewi in Solapur, was on Thursday named winner of Global Teacher Prize 2020 in recognition of his efforts to promote girls’ education and trigger a quick-response (QR) coded textbook revolution in India.

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After winning award, he h anunced that he would share 50 per cent of prize money equally among his fellow finalists. impact of his interventions has been that re are w reported teen marris in vill and 100 per cent attendance of girls at school. Disale’s school went on to become first in Maharashtra to introduce QR codes and after submitting a proposal and successful pilot scheme, state ministry anunced in 2017 that y would introduce QR coded textbooks across state for all gres. When he arrived re in 2009, vill school was a dilapidated building, sandwiched between a cattle shed and a storeroom, says a PTI report. He turned things around rically, ensuring local langu textbooks, embedded with unique QR codes to give students access to audio poems, video lectures, stories, and assignments. 

Disale of Solapur's Paritewi vill told PTI that, ‘Teachers are real changemakers…I am very pleased to anunce that I will share 50 per cent of prize money equally among my fellow top 10 finalists to support ir incredible work. I believe, toger, we can change this world because sharing is growing.” 

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(With inputs from PTI)