NIPUN Bharat Launch

NIPUN BHARAT Launch: Mission aims to cover the learning needs of children in the age group of 3 to 9 years

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To ensure that every child in the country necessarily attains foundational literacy and numeracy by the end of Grade 3, by 2026-27, Union Minister for Education, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ today virtually launched a National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat). On this occasion, a short video, anthem, and NIPUN Bharat Guidelines were also launched.

NIPUN BHARAT was launched in the presence of Minister of State, Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Smt. Anita Karwal, Secretary (SE&L), senior officers from the Ministry, all States and UTs, Senior Policy Makers, and Heads of Institutions.

While addressing, Union Education minister Shri Pokhriyal said that NIPUN Bharat aims to cover the learning needs of children in the age group of 3 to 9 years.  He said that teachers need to focus on every child for developing basic language; literacy and numeracy skills which will help them develop into better readers and writers. Thus, NIPUN Bharat envisages making the experience of learning at the foundational stage Holistic, Integrated, Inclusive, Enjoyable, and Engaging. He also informed that an approval of Rs 2688.18 crore has already been given under the Samagra Shiksha scheme to the States and UTs for implementation of the various interventions for the Foundational Stage in 2021-22.

NIPUN BHARAT, a national mission has been launched to focus on providing access and retaining children in foundational years of schooling; teacher capacity building; development of high quality and diversified Student and Teacher Resources/Learning Materials; and tracking the progress of each child in achieving learning outcomes.

Nipun Bharat  National Mission
Nipun Bharat National Mission

NIPUN Bharat will not only help our students to take a big leap in their higher classes, but it will also have a major impact in making our students globally competitive, said Sanjay Dhotre.

Seema Jain

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