National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat)

National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat)

Part of: GS-Prelims and GS-II: Government schemes and policies related to Education

Aims to achieve universal foundational literacy and numeracy in primary classes and to ensure that all children attain grade level competencies in reading, writing and numeracy.

• Lays down priorities and actionable agendas for States/UTs to achieve the goal of proficiency in foundational literacy and numeracy for every child by grade 3.
• Detailed guidelines have been developed for implementation of the NIPUN Bharat Mission which includes the Lakshya or Targets for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy starting from the Balvatika upto age group 9. 

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