Govt schools celebrate literacy drive milestone
The mission, launched to strengthen foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) skills in students from classes I to III, aims to achieve its goals by the academic year 2026-27. In Bihar, the initiative currently covers around 70,000 schools.
While most schools followed the education department's directive to play the official Nipun theme song during the celebrations, students who demonstrated proficiency in language and mathematics were not recognised in a few schools in Patna.
On this occasion, additional chief secretary of the education department, S Siddharth, addressed a letter to students, which was read out in schools across the state. In his message, he urged students to go beyond textbooks and embrace essential life skills, values, and curiosity-driven learning.
He wrote, "True proficiency or Nipunta is reflected in your behaviour. Be curious, think critically and foster creativity."
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Following a baseline survey conducted in March 2022 by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) to assess class II students, each district set five-year goals and prepared implementation plans. Since then, key resources like FLN and TLM (teaching-learning materials) kits were supplied to primary schools in 2022-23, and class-wise practice books in Hindi, mathematics, English and Urdu have been distributed annually between 2022 and 2025.
In addition, children have been provided with essential school items such as bags, water bottles and stationery from the 2023-24 session.
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