Padhna Likhna Abhiyan
It is the new Scheme to encourage Adult Education that has been approved by the Hon’ble HRM as a centrally sponsored scheme. The major goal of the Padhna Likhna Abhiyan is to provide functional literacy to 57 lakh adult illiterates aged 15 and up through a one-year Basic Literacy Program that starts from 2020 to 2021.
Interesting Features of this Abhiyan
- In a four-month cycle, the programme will focus on the Basic Literacy component, with priority given to aspirational regions.
- The programme will cover both rural and urban regions; state/UT targets and budgets are listed in the Annexure, with specifics in the attached Operational Guidelines. Districts will be given targets by states/UTs.
- For Basic Literacy, the plan will use a flexible approach and new approaches, such as involving school and college students as well as other volunteers from NCC, NSS, and NYKS.
- The Annual Plans of States/UTs will be approved by a Project Approval Board (PAB) at the national level.
- In PAB meetings, Secretaries of Education will present their Annual Plans, which are based on district plans, available on the NIC-developed webpage.
- Convergence with projects of M/o Rural Development (MGNREGA), Skill Development, Culture, Information Technology, Finance, Sports and Youth Welfare (NYK), schemes of NCC and NSS, NGOs/Civil Society & CSR sector may be taken up.
- SHGs, Voluntary and User Groups, and other community-based organisations are formed and encouraged to participate
- The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) will conduct Basic Literacy Assessments for adult learners three times a year as part of the Abhiyan.
PLA App
- PLA App has been designed in order to monitor the learning centres, but it can only be used by an Authorized user.
- This app is also being used for planning and execution of this scheme like providing solution to plan for the number of citizens to be taught during the fiscal year.
- This app also enables the survey officers to enter information about illiterate adults and voluntary teachers while performing a door to door survey.
- By this inspection can also be performed by collecting periodic information on inspections done for each learning center that is created as part of the programme.
