Government forms National Steering Committee to implement NIPUN Bharat Mission

NEW DELHI: The Government has formed a National Steering Committee for the implementation of the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy, NIPUN Bharat Mission. Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan will be the chairperson of the committee while Minister of State for Education Annapurna Devi will be the vice-chairperson, according to an official statement.

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“The Department of School Education and Literacy had launched the NIPUN Bharat Mission on July 5, 2021 with the aim to achieve the goal of universal proficiency in foundational literacy and numeracy for every child by grade 3, as envisaged by National Education Policy 2020,” the official statement read.

As per the official statement, the roles and responsibilities of the NSC for the NIPUN Bharat Mission are to oversee the progress of the National Mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy and provide guidance on policy issues. It also aims to achieve the desired target in the years 2026-27.

The NSC will review programmatic and financial norms periodically to ensure they are synchronised with targets to be achieved.

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It will make sure to disseminate tools for measurement of yearly progress in the form of guidelines.

Further, the role of the committee would be “to prepare and approve a National Action Plan (based on the State’s Action Plans) with KRAs for every State/UT vis-à-vis factors attributable for the gaps (i.e., lack of Fund, Vacancies, Teachers, Demography, Local issues, Need of Training for teachers, Curriculum & pedagogy related).”

“To develop methodology of assessment to analyse the progress and provide feedback to States/UTs,” would also be the role of the NSC, as per an official statement.

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The other members of the NSC include: Secretary, School Education and Literacy; Director NCERT; Secretary Education Uttar Pradesh; Secretary Education, Karnataka; Director SCERT Gujarat and Director SCERT Sikkim, the official statement added.

Representatives of seven union ministries -Women and Child Development, Tribal Affairs, Social Justice and Empowerment, Health and Family Welfare, Finance, Electronics and Information Technology and Panchayati Raj; two experts from NCERT and RIE Ajmer; and three external experts will also be members of the committee, the official statement said.