Nipun bharat mission means “National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy” (NIPUN Bharat). A National Mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN).
FLN refers to a child’s ability to read with meaning and solve basic maths problems by Class 3. These are crucial basic skills that help them succeed in life.
The National Education Policy 2020 accords the highest priority to FLN #NIPUNBharat, a National Mission on FLN launched by the Ministry of Education, aims to ensure every child has these basic skills by Class 3 by 2026-27.
The NIPUN Bharat Programme was launched on July 5th, 2021.
Nipun bharat mission was launched to educate children’s. Because :
55% of India’s school-going children cannot read and understand a short, age appropriate text by Class 5: World Bank’s Learning Poverty Index.
13-18% students from Class 3, 5, and 8 are below basic learning levels, and only 39-53% have achieved proficiency: NAS 2017
Research suggests that Class 3 is aninflection point. Only if children ‘learn toread’ by then do they ‘read to learn’
#NIPUNBharat will help children ‘read tolearn’ so that they don’t get left behind
In line with #NEP2020 recommends, the mission will :
Help children read with comprehension
Help children understand numbers, measurement, and shapes
Use play and activity-based pedagogy
Teach in children’s home languages
Provide high-quality teaching-learning material to engage children
Build capacities of teachers, Academic Resource Persons, education administrators
Track children’s learning levels consistently
Conduct meaningful assessments using polls, quizzes, games, etc.
Key Components Of Nipun Bharat Mission:
Oral Language Development : This helps develop phonological awareness and is important when learning to read and write.
Decoding : This domain includes competencies of print awareness,aksharas knowledge and word recognition.
Reading Fluency with comprehension : Accurately reading text with meaning and understanding expressions and punctuations.
Writing : writing alphabets and words with expressions.
Understanding Foundational Numeracy
Foundational numeracy means the ability to reason and to apply simple numerical concepts in daily life problem solving.
Pre Number Concepts: Being able to count and understand the numerical system
Numbers and Operations on Number: learning the basics of mathematics like the base 10 system to represent numbers
Shapes and Spacial Understanding: Perform simple computations in up to three-digit numbers and apply them in daily-life activities
Measurment: Perform basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on numbers up to three digits.