00:00Good news story. A lot of focus, of course, is always on cricket in when we talk of India's
00:07global achievements. But here is a historic moment for India. Rubal Nagi becomes the first
00:12Indian woman to win the Global Teacher Prize, taking home $1 million. That's right. From
00:18inspiring children through art to transforming low-income communities, she's now set to launch
00:24a free vocational training institute, a true trailblazer who's putting Indian education
00:29on the global map. It's tonight's Good News Today story.
00:45Rubal Nagi has become the first Indian woman to win the Global Teacher Prize.
00:52The educator gets $1 million or approximately 9 crore rupees in prize money.
00:59Nagi was among 5,000 people nominated for the prize from 139 countries. Nagi says her journey
01:10as an educator started over 20 years ago.
01:13I was approached to do an art workshop and that one art workshop, then I did a couple of them,
01:21but that one art workshop out of that, when I met a child who had not seen a pencil, I think was the turning
01:27point of point of my life. I was very much in my early 20s at that time and I came back home and I told my family, I told my husband, I said, have you ever met a child
01:38who's not seen a pencil? They said, oh, come on, what are you talking? Even they couldn't believe.
01:42Nagi uses art as a medium to educate children.
01:45Like a lot of people, when I started initially, told me, oh, social work and teaching, you do in your, when you're 55, 60 plus. And I looked at them, I said, I didn't know
01:56there was an age criteria for this profession and said, what are you going to do? You're just going to paint the murals in the slums, paint all the villages and sit with children and teach them whole day.
02:10Don't you have a profession?
02:12Nagi plans to use the $1 million prize money to set up an institute that provides free vocational training.
02:20The Robal Nagi Art Foundation runs educational centers for low income communities and villages across India.
02:30With Mustafa Sheikh, Bureau Report, India Today.
02:33Bye, bye, bye. Have fun, have fun, have fun, have fun.
02:39Bye, bye.
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