NIPUN Bharat Mission
- July 5, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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NIPUN Bharat Mission
Subject : Governance
Context : Recently, the Ministry of Education has announced that it will launch NIPUN Bharat Mission.
Concept :
NIPUN Bharat
- It is a National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat).
- It marks an important step undertaken by the Department of School Education and Literacy, among a series of measures taken for implementation of the National Education Policy 2020.
- Its vision is to create an enabling environment to ensure universal acquisition of foundational literacy and numeracy.
- Its primary focus will be on that every child achieves the desired learning competencies in reading, writing and numeracy by the end of Grade 3, by 2026-27.
- It will be implemented by the Department of School Education and Literacy.
- Under the mission, a five-tier implementation mechanism will be set up at the National- State- District- Block- School level in all States and UTs, under the aegis of the centrally sponsored scheme of SamagraShiksha.
- It will help in improving the overall education and literacy standards in the country.