Nipun Lakshya

The Government of India is committed to ensure accessibility to quality care and education for all children. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020strongly recommends measures to ensure the same and align all efforts with the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. According to the policy,the highest priority must be given to achieve universal foundational literacy and numeracy by the end of grade 3 by 2026-27. It further states that, “the rest of the policy will be largely irrelevant for such a large portion of our students if this most basic learning (reading, writing, and arithmetic at thefoundational level) is not first achieved.”
With this vision, the Government of India launched the National Mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy on 5th July, 2021 to attain its objectives by 2026-27. The mission is known as the ‘National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy’ (NIPUN Bharat).The Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L) at the Ministry of Education (MoE) is the implementing agency of the NIPUN Bharat Mission at the National level. States and UTs have a critical role to play in the implementation of the mission. For this, States and UTs would also need to ensure the activities for effective implementation of NIPUN Bharat Mission.