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Over the years, the Education Portfolio of the Trusts has KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
focused on addressing issues of quality and equality in
education. During FY23, the Government of India rolled • During the pandemic, the Trusts’ teams in Rajasthan,
out the NIPUN Bharat Mission, highlighting the centre’s Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka continued
e orts towards developing foundational literacy numeracy working with the community through learning centres
(FLN) skills by grade 3 for all children. However, slow and libraries, as well as engaging with teachers and
progress in pre- and in-service teacher education, as well Anganwadi workers, reaching over 123,000 children
as the weight of substantial non-academic duties on from 1,400 villages. The community - based work
teachers, resulted in uneven implementation of the NIPUN strengthened community support and participation. For
Bharat Mission across and within states. Throughout the all states, an endline assessment of children's
fiscal year under review, the Trusts, in collaboration with foundational learning revealed considerable progress
associate organisations and partners, aligned with the over baseline. As many as 90% of children in grades 3–8
government’s e orts towards improving the school passed foundational learning grade level cuto s. This is
learning environment and assisting teachers in significant in the context of widespread reports of
implementing remedial education. It also continued to learning loss during Covid.
engage with the larger community by strengthening
School Management Committees to ensure the safe return • Aligning with the GoI’s NIPUN Bharat Mission, the Trusts
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of children to schools and Anganwadis, post Covid. rolled out multi-state programmes focusing on Early
Childhood Education (ECE) and in-school education.
• The Trusts’ ECE intervention covered 16,000
Anganwadis in 11 districts of Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttar
Pradesh and Odisha and aimed to ensure school
readiness of children. The intervention will continue to
work within existing ICDS systems to provide
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structured inputs to the ICDS supervisors and workers.
• A multi-state school strengthening intervention strategy
has been devised and implemented in Uttar Pradesh,
Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and
Odisha, covering around 6,800 schools. The
intervention will strengthen basic learning in primary
schools by focusing on FLN.
NIPUN (National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and
Numeracy) Bharat Mission has been launched by the Education Ministry of India to
implement the recommendations of the National Education Policy 2020 and
focusing on foundational literacy numeracy in early primary grades.
Integrated Childhood Development Scheme
12 2,100,000 200,000 44,000
States Students Teachers Schools/Anganwadis
Coverage upto March 2023
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