Rouble Nagi, a Mumbai-based social worker and educator from Jammu and Kashmir, has won the Global Teacher Prize at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The prize, often described as the “Nobel of Teaching,” honours educators who have made noteworthy contributions to the profession.
Nagi received the award, along with $1 million in prize money, for setting up more than 800 learning centres and painting educational murals on slum walls across India.
She heads the Rouble Nagi Art Foundation (RANF), which was established to educate children and make them caring, responsible and productive citizens.