The Ministry of Education on Monday launched the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN). The objective of the NIPUN India mission is to create an enabling environment to ensure universal acquisition of basic literacy and numeracy, so that every child attains the desired learning ability in reading, writing and arithmetic by the end of Grade 3 by 2026-27.
NIPUN India will be implemented by the Department of School Education and Literacy and a five-tier implementation mechanism will be set up at the national-state-district-block-school level in all states and union territories under a centrally sponsored scheme. of holistic education. Senior officials of the School Education Department of all the states and union territories also participated in the virtual program.
“Our New Education Policy 2020 not only aims at providing school education to the students but it also focuses on their holistic development. Nipun Bharat is a strong step in that direction. I firmly believe that our New Education Policy 2020 will stop rote learning as it is based on the principle of ‘how to think’ and not ‘what to think’, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said.
NIPUN India was launched in the presence of educational administrators and academicians. He said that it will bring revolutionary change in the primary education system of India and will bring the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the ground.
“I believe that school education is the foundation of our education system. Strengthening it with better and skill based teaching method will enhance the capabilities of our students. Nipun Bharat for the financial year 2021-22 under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan The mission has been allocated a budget of Rs 2,688.18 crore.
The ‘Samagra Shiksha’ program was launched by merging three existing schemes: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE). The objective of this scheme is to treat school education in a holistic manner from pre-school to class XII.
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