Nagaland makes ambitious plan to achieve 100 per cent literacy by 2030
Recently, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio unveiled the Nagaland Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Vision 2030 - Leaving no one behind. The vision provides short, medium and long term strategies to achieve 17 SDGs, and quality education is one of the main priorities.
The northeastern state of Nagaland is aiming to achieve a 100 per cent literacy rate in the state by the year 2030.
According to a vision document, the state government has made an ambitious plan of attaining 100 per cent literacy by 2030 through strengthening Anganwadi centres and early childhood education besides upgrading infrastructure.
Recently, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio unveiled the Nagaland Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Vision 2030 - Leaving no one behind. The vision provides short, medium and long term strategies to achieve 17 SDGs, and quality education is one of the main priorities.
The document stated that the objective is to secure inclusive and equal quality education and support lifelong learning chances for all. It also aims to eliminate gender and other differences at all levels of education, with a focus on vocational training.
The Anganwadi Centres and schools will have a channel of communication, the document stated, adding that it will help in improving learning outcomes while providing a seamless movement of students from those centres to primary schools.
Emphasis will be given to pre-primary classes which are not covered under the Right to Education Act 2009, the document said. A proposal on the introduction of early childhood education has been made by the Department of School Education, whereby teachers holding diplomas in early education (D.El.Ed) would be engaged.
The state government's focus will be to improve infrastructure by setting up a state-level Human Resource Development Centre and digitisation efforts at schools - higher and technical education levels.
Another target for the Nagaland government for the year 2030 would be the achievement of zero per cent or near zero per cent drop-out rate at school level and 100 per cent enrolment rate of children with special needs.
The document stated that it also has plans to strengthen higher and technical education institutions through the Directorate of Technical Education and increase the types of courses available to provide students with greater choices of subjects, which according to the proposal, will reduce the number of students that are often compelled to travel to other states of the country to study certain subjects.
(Edited by Aparmita Das)
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