In order to motivate teachers to use ICT in school education in a big way, the National ICT awards are given every year. A systematic selection process is followed for short-listing and recommendation of the required number of awardees to the Ministry of Education (MoE), GoI. In all 36 ICT awards are instituted by Govt. of India for different States/UTs and autonomous bodies / organizations under MoE, GoI. From 2021 onwards two new categories of awards are introduced (i) for Teacher educators and (ii) for best practicing States/UTs. The detailed information about the number of awards for teachers, teacher educators and for best practicing states/UTs are given in the detailed guidelines. More