Important for
Prelims: Social Issues
Mains: General Studies I
- ULLAS: Nav Bharat Saksharta Karyakram on the occasion of three years of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
- ULLAS stands for Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society.
Aims
- To revolutionize education and literacy across India by fostering a learning ecosystem that reaches every individual, bridging the gaps in basic literacy and critical life skills.
- – To impart basic education, digital and financial literacy and critical life skills to citizens aged 15 and above who lost the opportunity to go to school.
Focus areas:
- functional literacy, vocational skills, and many important life skills like financial literacy, legal literacy, digital literacy, and empowerment of citizens to involve in nation-building of the country.
Implementation:
- The initiative operates through volunteerism. It encourages volunteers to participate as DUTY or Kartavya Bodh towards nation-building.
- Student volunteers will be incentivised with credits in school/university and appreciation through certificates, letters of appreciation, felicitation, among other means.
Significance:
- According to government data, as many as 12.5 lakh students are out of school in the year 2022-23 with the number of boys greater than girls.
- The ULLAS initiative has the potential to bring these students back to learning by providing them with an open-source learning platform.
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