Nipun Lakshay
Nipun Bharat Mission or National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Comprehension and Numeracy is launched by the Ministry of Education of India under the National Education Policy 2020. The scheme ensures that every child in India acquires foundational numeracy and literacy by the end of Grade 3.
Nipun Bharat focuses on making the monotonous education system integrated, enjoyable, inclusive, and engaging. It instructs teachers or educators to prepare a study plan that develops literary and basic language skills of students.
Also, as a part of holistic education, it will work to retain students until their foundational education is completed, improve learning or training modules, enhance teacher capacity, and track the progress of each child.
Nipun Mission plans to achieve the discussed goals by 2026-27.
Expected Outcomes/Goals: Foundational skills enable children to be retained in class thereby reducing school dropouts and improving transition rates from primary to upper primary and secondary stages. Activity-based learning and conducive learning environment will improve the quality of education. Innovative teaching methodologies like toy-based and experiential learning will be used in classroom operations, making learning a joyful and engaging activity. Intensive capacity building of teachers will empower them and provide greater autonomy to choose pedagogy. Holistic development of the child by focusing on different areas 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 the overall progress card. Children will have to achieve faster pace of learning which can have a positive impact on later life outcomes and employability. Since almost every child attends early classes, therefore, focusing at that stage will also benefit the socio-economically disadvantaged group and thus ensure access to equitable and inclusive quality education.