Two UAE-based school principals bag Indian award

Two UAE-based school principals bag Indian award

Two UAE-based school principals were among 10 globally to have won the Indian Humanitarian Award 2020. Anubha Nijhawan, Principal of Indian Public High School, Ras Al Khaimah, and Pramod Mahajan, Director-Principal of Sharjah Indian School, were selected from over 1,200 school head teachers from India, the UAE, Nepal, Bangladesh and Maldives.

Organised by the Global Talk Education Foundation, a training and assessment body under the Government of India, a jury of specialists selected these head teachers as "they found a humanitarian streak in them while going forward with their teaching and learning processes".

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Anubha Nijhawan is no stranger to awards. She received the Indian national teacher's award in 2006, getting the honour from the late Indian President