NIPUN
BHARAT MISSION - GOVERNANCE
News:
Maximising India’s
demographic dividend through foundational literacy and numeracy
What's
in the news?
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Numeracy skills in the early years can
predict future academic success.
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They help grasp complex math and enhance
problem-solving abilities, supporting cognitive development like memory and
information processing.
Key
takeaways:
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Given that 90% of a child’s brain
development occurs between the ages of three to eight, the foundational stage
of education becomes extremely critical.
NIPUN
Bharat Mission:
Aim:
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To create an enabling environment to
ensure universal acquisition of foundational
literacy and numeracy.
Target:
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It will enable every child to achieve the
desired learning competencies in reading, writing and numeracy by the end of Grade 3 by 2026-27.
Implementation:
● NIPUN Bharat will be implemented by the Department of School Education and Literacy under the Ministry of Education.
Mechanism:
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A five-tier implementation mechanism will
be set up at the national-state-district-block-school level in all states and
UTs for the mission.
Funding:
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No additional funding is being allocated
for the mission. Instead, money is being allocated from the Samagra Shiksha scheme, which saw a 20%
drop in its budget in 2021.
Objectives:
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Foundational skills enable to keep
children in class thereby reducing the
dropouts and improving transition rate from primary to upper primary and
secondary stages.
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Activity
based learning and a conducive learning environment will
improve the quality of education.
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Innovative
pedagogies such as toy-based and experiential learning will be
used in classroom transactions thereby making learning a joyful and engaging
activity.
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Intensive
capacity building of teachers will make them empowered
and provide greater autonomy for choosing the pedagogy.
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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.
Significance:
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Foundational literacy and numeracy is one
of the goals under the National Education Policy 2020.