LUCKNOW, Sept. 5 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday extended congratulations to three Uttar Pradesh teachers who received the National Teacher Awards from President Droupadi Murmu along with several others from across India at a function held in New Delhi on Teachers' Day.

The three teachers from Uttar Pradesh who received the coveted award are Madhurima Tiwari, principal of PM Shri Composite School, Mirzapur, Ram Lal Singh Yadav, a teacher at the upper primary school, Badwapu, in Bhadohi, and Prof Vibha Sharma, department of English, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

Madhurima Tiwari was chosen for the award after her school bagged the honour of "Green School". Congratulating her, the CM wrote on X: "The honour of 'Green School...