TEACHER’S DAY CELEBRATED AT SMVITM

Teachers’ Day was celebrated at Shri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology & Management, (SMVITM) Bantakal under the auspices of the newly elected Student Council on 5 September 2014. In a formal program organised at the institute premises and presided over by Sri. P. Shrinivasa Tantry, Vice President, Shri Sode Vadiraja Mutt Education Trust (SSVMET), Udupi, the best teacher awards for the year 2013 – 14, instituted by the management were given away by the chief guest, Dr. P. R. Panchamukhi, Professor Emeritus & Chairman, Centre for Multi-disciplinary Development Research, (CMDR), Dharwad – a distinguished scholar.

Delivering his Teachers’ Day message, Dr. Panchmukhi said that teaching is a pious profession and the word teacher is unable to convey the nuances of meanings expressed by the different Sanskrit words like Adhyāpak, Upādhyay, Guru and Achārya used to denote a person who teaches others. To be a good teacher one should have command over the subject and delivery of it and be honest to oneself and the students. By constantly trying to answer his own inner questions, a teacher should keep his inquisitiveness and urge for knowledge unquenched throughout his/her life. Every teacher should realize that teaching is a method of learning and ignite the thinking process in the students, he said.

Prof. Dr. A. Ganesha, Dean (Academics) briefed about the aims and objectives of instituting the best teacher awards at SMVITM. The awardees – Mr. Raja Yatheesh Yadav, Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mr. Siju V. Soman, Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering – in their acceptance speeches, said that they felt honored by being selected for the awards and thanked the management for the trust placed in them and reiterated their commitment to the growth of the students and the institution.

The Guest of Honor, Sri Rathnakumar, Secretary, SSVMET said that a teacher is someone who the students look up to for guidance and advice and narrated how some eminent personalities had openly acknowledged their indebtedness to their teachers for their success in life.

In his message, Principal, Prof. Dr. Radhakrishana S. Aithal urged the students to remember their teachers always and said that a true teacher would be the happiest person when a student surpasses the achievement of his/her own teacher.

The formal program was followed by different fun games and activities organised by the students for the members of the faculty.Usha H. rendered an invocation and (Dr.) Subhulakshmi Karanth welcomed the gathering. The Chief Guest was introduced by Mr. Sahil Ali and Gagan G. Prabhu proposed a vote of thanks. Manasa A. Shetty, Vikas Udupa and Nihal K.  Shetty compeered the program.