In this article, we hear from Sonali Khan (Managing Director, Sesame Workshop India) on key experiences and learnings from their work. She talks about their ‘Chalo! Sesame Street’ application, aimed at improving FLN for young children and shares insights into their journey, opportunities and challenges in the EdTech domain, with a special focus on partnerships for scaling impact.
Districts serve as crucial drivers of NIPUN Mission reforms, spearheading change within the education system at the grassroots level. This article highlights how District Project Management Units (DPMUs) are fostering successful implementation of the NIPUN Bharat Mission, with examples from Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana.
Ghaziabad has been working in mission mode under NIPUN to ensure that all children from Balvatikas to Grade 3 in the district build critical literacy and numeracy skills. Our team met Basic Shiksha Adhikari - Ghaziabad, Shri Om Prakash Yadav ji to understand his views on the Mission, the role he sees himself playing in it and his priorities for this new academic year.
Odisha’s commitment to improving foundational learning outcomes across the state have effectively stuck out through their work in the past few years. This article places a spotlight on governance mechanisms and key initiatives to drive FLN implementation and calls out key enablers, including monitoring, training and salience building, to drive FLN adoption at different levels in the state.
Focussing on ensuring FLN implementation at different levels in Odisha, this article highlights cluster-level initiatives to improve student learning outcomes. Shri. Manoj Kumar Padhy elaborates on the process and achievements of these meetings and how they can bolster teaching and learning processes in the classroom. Additionally, he calls attention to other key initiatives in the state to strengthen FLN at the school level.
This article shares a bird’s-eye view of financing mechanisms at the central level for the NIPUN Bharat Mission in India. It presents an in-depth analysis of funds allocated to states and union territories for FLN in the last three years (2021-24) and highlights several potential areas of change for financial provisioning for the Mission to meet FLN goals in a timely manner.
The Department of School Education, Government of Telangana, launched a comprehensive FLN mission on 15 August 2022, with the aim of ensuring that all primary school children (Grade 1-5) in government schools across the state achieve foundational literacy and numeracy skills. The launch of the FLN programme is significant as this was based on the "felt need" of the state. This article explores Telangana's FLN reform journey so far through CSF’s role as a catalytic partner and the insights gained through this collaborative effort.
In an interview with CSF, Richie Pandey (District Magistrate, Jehanabad, Bihar) shares key highlights of the FLN mission in the state, with a special emphasis on its implementation at the…
In July 2020, India’s National Education Policy (NEP) recognised Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) as an urgent and necessary pre-requisite to learning. The policy was revised after over three decades.…
Central Square Foundation and Centre for Social and Behaviour Change at Ashoka University collaborated to develop and empirically test behavior change interventions to increase parental engagement on FLN in two…