Zilla Panchayat member K M Kemparaju said that teachers play a vital role in nation building through shaping responsible citizens.

Inaugurating the 46th Teachers’ Day celebrations held at MRM Hall at Kadur on Wednesday, he said that there are a section of people who think that education is not required. In this direction, he said that teachers must take up the task of convincing them. He pointed that there are good number of teachers too who have not been making justice to their profession.

Taluk Panchayat President Suneetha Mallappa presided over the programme and said that like parents, teachers too have a huge role to play in a child’s life as the teachers shape the personality of the children. Retired school teachers were felicitated during the programme.

Separate programme

“How important Army is for the security of  the nation, teaching is equally a powerful and a necessary profession. Teachers must toil for the development of the society,” said Mudugere MLA M P Kumaraswamy.

Addressing the Taluk level Teachers’ Day celebration held at Mudugere on Wednesday, Mr Kumaraswamy addressed teachers as ‘veins of the society’. He urged the teachers to rectify the errors in the society and make it a better place by imparting good education to the people.

He called upon the teachers to take their profession as a challenge in the present day democratic set up and make sincere efforts to bring about a qualitative change in the society.

Retired teachers such as Seethamma, Naseema Fathima, Krishnappa Nayak, Padmanabha Bhat, Mariyappa Gowda, Honnaiah, Jessi Alphonso and Sulochanamma were felicitated. The programme was inaugurated by Taluk Panchayat president T T Vinod.