Nipun Lakshay
NIPUN Bharat Mission or National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy is launched by the Education Ministry of India under National Education Policy 2020.This scheme ensures that every child in India gains foundational numeracy and literacy by the end of Grade 3.
NIPUN Bharat focuses on transforming the monotonous education system into an integrated, enjoyable, inclusive and engaging. It instructs teachers or educators to prepare a study plan that develops the students’ literary and basic language skills.
Moreover, as a part of Samagra Shiksha, it will work to retain students till their foundational learning is complete, improve learning or training modules, increase teacher capacity and track each child’s progress.
NIPUN mission plans to achieve the discussed goals by 2026-27.
Expected Outcomes /Lakshya: Foundational skills enable to keep children in class thereby reducing the dropouts and improve transition rate from primary to upper primary and secondary stages. Activity based learning and a conducive learning environment will improve the quality of education. Innovative pedagogies such as toy-based and experiential learning will be used in classroom transactions thereby making learning a joyful and engaging activity. Intensive capacity building of teachers will make them empowered and provide greater autonomy for choosing the pedagogy. Holistic development of the child by focusing on different domains of development like physical and motor development, socio-emotional development, literacy and numeracy development, cognitive development, life skills etc. which are interrelated and interdependent, which will be reflected in a Holistic Progress Card. Children to achieve a steeper learning trajectory which may have positive impacts on later life outcomes and employment. Since almost every child attends early grades, therefore, focus at that stage will also benefit the socio-economic disadvantageous group thus ensuring access to equitable and inclusive quality education.
