Rajasthan
Education Minister launches 'Mission Buniyaad'
- 06 Sep 2022
- 2 min read
Why in News?
On September 5, 2022, Education Minister Dr. B-D-Kalla launched 'Mission Buniyaad' for the school children of the state at Shiksha Sankul.
Key Points
- Mission Buniyaad is a digital learning program. In this program, based on the understanding ability of each student, individual reading material is provided to him/her by the software, so that the children can make their own assessment.
- The objective of this program is to enhance the learning capacity of the students, reduce the gender gap, reduce the drop out rate by strengthening the digital infrastructure.
- Through this, about 20 lakh students of the state will be able to get high quality digital education.
- Mission Buniyaad has been launched by the Government of Rajasthan in association with Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Kaivalya Education Foundation (Piramal Foundation), GDI Partners and Convenience. According to the Kaivalya Education Foundation, this program is India's largest Personalized Adaptive Learning (P.A.L) programme.
- The program was launched in December 2020 as a pilot project in 6 districts- Udaipur, Sirohi, Bhilwara, Sikar, Dholpur and Karauli. 24,360 students of classes 8 to 12 from these districts participated in the project and their learning ability increased by an average of 16 per cent.
