Nagaland: ‘Make our population literate’

May 10, 2023 35 Views No Comment

Training for master trainers on New India Literacy Prog implementation

Our Correspondent
Kohima | May 10

Nagaland School Education Commissioner & Secretary, Kevileno Angami today called for effective implementation of New India Literacy Programme (NILP) in the state.

Speaking at the inaugural programme of training for master trainers on NILP implementation here at the Directorate of School Education, she told the master trainers to work sincerely and motivate others to “make our population literate.”

In the last one year, Nagaland could trained, literate and certified 55,000 persons under adult education programme, she said.

In India, she said “we still have about 18 crore people in the age group of 15 years and above as illiterate.”

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 recommended that the government should take strong initiative to make the population of the country literate, she said adding that the Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations) also mandated that by 2030 all the people, youth and adult (both men & women) should be literate.

“So we have this mandate to make non literate population in the age group of 15 and above literate,” she told the master trainers.

As master trainers for this programme, to make this non literate people literate, we have been given a time line of five years, starting from 2022 till 2027 to make atleast 5 crore people literate, she added.

‘Digitally literate, financially literate, legally literate’
Touching on foundational literacy and numeracy, which is one of the objectives of NILP, Kevileno stressed on the need to impart critical life skills so that they (non literate people) will able to be digitally literate, financially literate and legally literate.

Then, they will be able to take care of their health, their family and also able to bring about well being in the community, she said.

On vocational education, she said “You will be imparting vocational skills to the non literate people so that they will be employable and able to take enterprises.”

“This mandate will be on us as master trainers,” she said.

The inaugural programme was chaired by school education director Wonthungo Tsopoe while vote of thanks was proposed by Thavaseelan K, principal director, Directorate of School Education.

The training, to continue till May 11, is organized by Directorate of School Education, Nagaland (State Literacy Mission Authority (Adult Education) in collaboration with Cell for National Centre for Literacy (CNCL), NCERT, New Delhi.
The training also featured guests from Meghalaya and Tripura.

The resource persons includes; official from Ministry of Education, SLMA Nagaland, Dr. Bani Bora, senior consultant CNCL and Rohit Nainwal, consultant CNCL.

The three day training will touch on overview of NILP, understanding learners, recapitulation, awareness generation and environment building, survey app (identification of learners), Volunteer Teacher (VT) in NILP, teaching learning methodology in NILP, foundational literacy and numeracy for learners, teaching practice: foundational literacy and numeracy, assessment and certification in NILP, continuing education, resources, practical implementation of NILP and preparation of action plan.

About New India Literacy Programme
A new centrally sponsored scheme on Education for All (erstwhile known as Adult Education), “New India Literacy Programme (NILP)”, has been approved by the Government of India for implementation during financial years 2022-23 to 2026-27, in alignment with the recommendations of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

The scheme is targeted at all non-literates of age 15 years and above.

The scheme has five components, namely; Foundational Literacy and Numeracy, Critical Life Skills (which include, financial literacy, digital literacy, legal literacy, healthcare and awareness, childcare and education, family welfare, etc.), Basic Education (includes preparatory (classes 3-5), middle (classes 6-8), and secondary stage (classes 9-12) equivalency), Vocational Skills (Skill development will be a part of the continuous learning process for neo-literates to obtain local employment), Continuing Education (This includes engaging holistic adult education courses in arts, sciences, technology, culture, sports, recreation, as well as other topics of interest or use to local learners) and formation and involvement of SHGs, Voluntary & User Groups and other community based organizations may be encouraged.