New Delhi: The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education will launch the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat) on Monday, July 5.
Union Minister for Education, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ will launch the NIPUN Bharat project virtually.
A short video, anthem and implementation guidelines on NIPUN Bharat will also be unveiled during this programme. Senior officers from the School Education Department from all states and UTs, senior officials of the department and heads of institutions will grace the event, according to a PIB release.
The NIPUN Bharat launch 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, released on July 29 last year.
The vision of the NIPUN Bharat Mission is to create an enabling environment to ensure universal acquisition of foundational literacy and numeracy, so that every child achieves the desired learning competencies in reading, writing and numeracy by the end of Grade 3, by 2026-27.
The NIPUN Bharat 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 the aegis of the centrally sponsored Samagra Shiksha scheme.
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