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NIPUN Bharat Mission 2025: Objectives, Features & Benefits

NIPUN Bharat Mission

The 86th Constitutional amendment in India obligated the Right to Education. This decision aims to encourage children to get an education in school. To achieve this goal, the Education Ministry launched the NIPUN Bharat Mission.

The mission concentrates on building teacher capacity, granting access to children in the foundational years, creating high-quality and diverse student and teacher resources/learning materials, and monitoring each child's progress towards meeting learning outcomes. Keep reading to learn how this scheme works and works to remove the illiteracy ratio.

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What Is NIPUN Bharat Mission?

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, all-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 Smagra Siksha, 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.

Let’s check who is eligible to gain the benefits offered under the said scheme. This will help understand the plan in detail.

What is FLN in NIPUN?

The National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy is the national mission of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN), which refers to children's capacity to read comprehensively and solve simple mathematical problems by class 3. 

Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN), comprised of Foundational Language and Literacy and Foundational Numeracy, has been assigned the highest priority by NEP 2020.

 

Foundational Literacy/Languages 

Building literacy abilities in languages is aided by prior language understanding. The following table shows the main elements of Foundational Language and Literacy: 

Basis Description
Oral Communication Evolution includes enhanced oral vocabulary, increased conversational skills, and better listening comprehension. Oral language experiences also depend on the development of reading and writing skills.
Decoding Decoding is the process of reading printed words by figuring out how symbols and sounds relate to one another.
Reading Fluency Reading fluency is the capacity to read a text accurately, quickly (automaticity), expressively (prosody), and comprehensible so that young readers can derive meaning from it. Although many kids know aksharas (alphabets), reading them one by one is time-consuming.
Reading Comprehension It involves applying critical thought to a text and deriving meaning from it. This domain covers the competencies of comprehending texts, extracting information from them, and interpreting texts.
Writing This domain covers the skills necessary to write words and aksharas and writing for expressive purposes.

Foundational Numeracy

The ability to reason and use basic arithmetic principles to solve problems in daily life is known as foundational numeracy. The following table shows the main features and elements of early mathematics:

Basis Description
Pre-Number Concepts Recognise and count the number system.
Numbers and their Operations Acquire the knowledge of conventions necessary for mastering mathematical concepts, such as how to represent numbers using the base ten system.
Forms and Space Recognising Complete basic calculations on their own, including up to three-digit figures, and apply them to various situations in their daily lives.
Measu rement Comprehend and apply conventional methods to do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on integers up to three digits.
Data Handling Recognise and expand on basic patterns, such as recurring shapes or numerical patterns, and apply basic data interpretation to day-to-day operations.

Who Are the Beneficiaries of NIPUN Bharat Yojana Mission?

Following are the beneficiaries of the scheme.

  • This scheme emphasises children in age bracket of 3 to 9 years.
  • It also supports students in preschools to class three.
  • Children without a foundational skill and studying in classes 4 and 5 will be offered peer support, tutor guidance and additional learning materials to strengthen their educational proficiency.
  • NIPUN aims to complete its set objectives by private and Government aided schools by 2026-27. This will help achieve universal attainment of FLN skills.

Let’s check features of NIPUN Bharat Mission for a detailed understanding of its operation.

What is the Objective of NIPUN Bharat?

The NIPUN Bharat was launched with various objectives in mind. The Government of India aims to provide quality education to all children from their formative years. Follow the table below to read the objectives of NIPUN Bharat:

Objective Description
To ensure an inclusive classroom environment By incorporating play, discovery, and activity-based pedagogies, linking it to the children's daily life situations and formally including children’s home languages, play, exploration, and activity-based pedagogies are connected to the children's everyday lives.
To focus on continuous capacity building Of teachers, head teachers, academic resource persons, and education administrators.
Enhancing Numeracy and Spatial Skills To help kids grasp the rationale behind numbers, measurements, and shapes and provide them with the numeracy and spatial comprehension skills necessary to solve problems independently.
Culturally Sensitive Instructional Materials To guarantee the availability and efficient application of superior, culturally sensitive instructional materials in the children's mother tongue(s).
Professional Development for Educators To concentrate on ongoing professional development for educators, including head teachers, academic resource people, and education administrators.
Community Engagement and Collaboration To actively collaborate with legislators and other relevant parties, including educators, parents, students, and the community, to lay a solid basis for lifelong learning.
Comprehensive Assessment Practices To make sure that learning is assessed "as, of, and for" it through oral presentations, short tests, projects, role plays, games, portfolios, group and collaborative work, quizzes, and so on.
Tracking Learning Progress To guarantee that each student's learning progress is tracked.

Features of the NIPUN Bharat Mission

These are the benefits offered by the NIPUN scheme to beneficiaries.

  • The targets or goals of this scheme are similar to Target for Literacy Foundation and Numeracy or Lakshya Soochi.
  • It plans to achieve the anticipated learning outcome by the end of class three. This scheme has shifted Lakshyas from Balvatika to class three to generate awareness on this target among parents, volunteers, community, etc.
  • Lakshyas are established on the guidelines of international research and ORF studies. The NCERT also plans the curriculum.
  • It follows a five-tier implementation mechanism set at the National- State- District- Block- School level in all States and UTs.
  • NIPUN scheme offers a special package for FLN under NISHTHA. Under this plan, the pre-primary to primary grade teachers will undergo training.

The NIPUN Bharat Mission works to improve the efficiency and learning skills of children. For instance, a child should read at least 60 words per minute of a comprehensive text accurately after passing class three.

Let’s check the outcome of the NIPUN Bharat Mission that the Government envisions.

What are the Expected Outcomes of NIPUN Bharat Mission?

Here are the expected outcomes of the NIPUN Bharat Mission.

  • Improved foundational skills of children to reduce dropouts.
  • Increase the number of students clearing the primary, upper primary and secondary stages.
  • It envisions an enhanced education quality due to conducive and activity-based teaching.
  • Practice of toy-based and unique pedagogies or experimental teaching to make the sessions fun and interesting.
  • Forming a training module that focuses on developing motor and physical skills, emotional and social skills, cognitive., numeracy, literacy, life skills and more.
  • Ensure holistic development of every child, which will be tracked down in reports.
  • Encourage children to achieve steep learning for future needs like employment and life decisions.
  • Create creative assessments such as quizzes, games, polls, etc.

This is some crucial information on NIPUN Bharat Mission and its operation. Individuals should encourage eligible children to avail benefits of this scheme. This would ensure they receive a quality education. Through the implementation of this scheme, children will manifest in their education spheres.

 

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