A coordination meeting with district steering committee on “National Initiative for Proficiency in reading with Understanding & Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat” was held in the conference hall Kohima on September 10.
According to a DIPR report, ADC Kohima, N. Bhavani Sri informed that the purpose of the meeting was to understand and launch the NIPUN programme.
She said the district had a huge role to play and requested all the line departments to work together in concession in order to achieve the policy.
Giving a brief introduction on NIPUN Bharat deputy mission director, Samagra Shiksha, Kelhikha Kenye said that the ministry of education launched NIPUN to ensure every child in the country necessarily attained Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) by the end of grade 3, by 2026-27.
He informed that foundational numeracy meant the ability to reason and to apply simple numerical concepts in daily life problem solving.
The mission would be set up under the aegis of the centrally sponsored scheme of Samagra Shiksha which was an integrated scheme of school education covering from pre-school to senior secondary level.
It would also focus on children of age group of 3 to 9 years including pre-school to grade 3.
Congratulating Kohima district for taking up the early initiative for implementation of this programme, Kelhikha sought all the line departments to work together in every level by engaging teachers, parents, community leaders and stakeholders to ensure schools children attains this competency.
He also gave a PowerPoint presentation on the vision of FLM mission, National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2017, National Education Policy 2020, aims to achieve FLN by 2026-27, objectives, learning goals of the mission, empowering teachers’, administrative approaches, etc.
Earlier, assistant district coordinator DMA, SS Kohima, Thongsenlo delivered the welcome address during the programme.