With Disale’s help, Maha to create world-class academics: Thackeray

Mumbai, Dec. Dec 7 : Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said that with the help of the Global Teacher Prize laureate Ranjitsinh Disale, the state would create a topnotch academic infrastructure for the students, here on Monday.
Felicitating the Solapur Zilla Parishad school-teachers Disale, 31, along with his father Mahadev and mother Parvati, Thackeray said that the state government will bring together academics with innovative initiatives or experiments in the field of education.
“We shall prepare a roadmap with the help of all such teachers which will enable the students get world-class education, especially in government and municipal schools,” Thackeray said.
Expressing pride at Disale’s global achievement, the CM said this shows his “passion in the field of education” and urged the Education Departments to work more closely with such techno-savvy and innovative-minded teachers especially since the virtual classrooms are being implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic, including in BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation schools.
“He not only got the top global award (of Rs.7.40 crore) for his excellent work in the field of education, but even distributed half the prize money among the other nine shortlisted contestants” said Thackeray, lauding the work of the teachers as a heroic example.
On Dec. 3, Disale was named the winner of the UNESCO-Varkey Foundation’s “Global Teacher Prize” award – the first-ever by an Indian.