The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education launched ‘National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy’ (NIPUN Bharat) on 5th July, 2021.
The vision of NIPUN Bharat Mission is to create an enabling environment to ensure universal acquisition of foundational literacy and numeracy, so that every child achieves the desired learning competencies in reading, writing and numeracy by the end of Grade 3, by 2026-27.
The launch of NIPUN Bharat marks an important step among a series of measures taken for implementation of the National Education Policy 2020, that was released on 29th July 2020. It has been launched as a part of the National Mission Foundation for Literacy and Numeracy.
NIPUN Bharat will be implemented by the Department of School Education and Literacy. A five-tier implementation mechanism will be set up at the national- state- district- block- school level in all states and UTs, under the aegis of the centrally sponsored scheme of Samagra Shiksha.