BITSian receives National Teachers Award for 2007

A K Shrivastava, Principal, Birla Public School, Doha, Quatar, has won the prestigious National Teachers Award 2007, instituted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. He received the award from the President of India, Pratibha Singh Patil at a high-profile function held in New Delhi on September 5, 2008.

He has worked in prestigious schools at New Delhi which include Jindal Public School and Cambridge School and as Vice Principal in APJ School, Shaikh Sarai, New Delhi. Mr. Shrivastava has also worked in Al Ghubra, Oman, as a Vice Principal before joining Birla Public School (BPS) in Doha as Principal in 2004. From 1970 to 1972, Aditya Shrivastava was a student of BITS Pilani and obtained his MSc in Physics.

After winning the award, in an exclusive message to his alma mater BITS Pilani, he wrote "

I in my ignorance may claim to have won the award, but reality is that I owe it to my parents and teachers and my Alma Mater. Whatever I am today it's because of all of them. How can I forget my teachers from Pilani Prof. Ghule, Prof, Subramaniam, Prof S.K.Sharmaji, Mr. & Mrs.Shrivastava and Dr.Maheshwari from EEE Department, Prof. Jaseja, Prof. J.S.Verma and of course Shri.Shiv Yogi Tiwariji. I still quote them in my classes. They shaped my destiny."

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