A geography teacher in Assam has won this year's National Teachers' Award for turning his students into daily home tutors for their own mothers, many of whom never learned to read or write, according to a report by the Times of India. Rajesh Bordoloi, who teaches at Adarsha Tribal Higher Secondary School in Kalbari, Jorhat district, gives his Class 10 students an assignment that goes beyond the classroom: go home and teach your mother.
Under this programme, called "Each One Teach One," students walk their mothers through UPI payments, online banking, using smartphones and basic reading. Bordoloi started the initiative two years ago after noticing a growing gap between his tech-savvy students and their mothers, many of whom had little or no formal schooling and struggled with even basic technology, the Times of India reported.
