National Teachers Awards 2026: President Honours 82 Teachers

The correct answer is 82. The release records that 82 teachers and educators were selected for the National Teachers Awards this year, and that they came from three departments. The break-up is worth memorising because a paper setter can ask for any one part of it: 48 teachers from the Department of School Education and Literacy, 21 teachers and faculty members from higher educational institutions and polytechnics, and 13 skill trainers from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. Add those three numbers and you get the total of 82, which is a quick way to check yourself in the examination hall. Option A, option C and option D are not supported anywhere in the release; they are the kind of round or near-miss figures that distractors are usually built from. Note also that the awards were conferred by President Droupadi Murmu at a function in New Delhi on Teachers' Day, 5 September 2026, while the Prime Minister had met the same winners at his residence a day earlier.

The correct answer is the Department of School Education and Literacy. Of the 82 awardees, 48 came from that department, which is well over half the total and easily the largest block. Option A is wrong because the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship contributed 13 skill trainers, the smallest of the three groups. Option B is wrong in the form it is written: the higher education share of 21 awardees came from higher educational institutions and polytechnics, and the release does not credit it to the Department of Higher Education by that name; even if it did, 21 is smaller than 48. Option D does not figure in the release at all. Remember the order of the three groups from largest to smallest as 48, 21 and 13, because questions in this pattern often ask for the smallest share rather than the largest one. The awards were conferred by President Droupadi Murmu in New Delhi on Teachers' Day.

The correct answer is Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. The releases of the day tie the occasion directly to him: President Droupadi Murmu paid floral tributes to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a former President of India, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, and the Prime Minister said that Teachers' Day is also a day to pay homage to Dr S. Radhakrishnan. Option A names the first President of India, who is remembered on other occasions and not on Teachers' Day. Option B names another former President who came from an educational background, which makes him a plausible distractor, but the day is not observed for him. Option D names a former President widely associated with students and with Students' Day tributes, which again makes the option tempting, but the release of 5 September 2026 does not connect him with this day. The safe way to hold this item is to pair the date, the man and the event: 5 September, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and the National Awards to Teachers conferred by the President.