The NIPUN Bharat guidelines aim at ensuring access to and retention of students in their foundational years of schooling, developing teacher capacity, creating high-quality, diversified student & teacher resources/learning materials, and tracking each student’s progress toward fulfilling the learning objectives. As a result, NIPUN Bharat guidelines emphasise on making the foundational level of learning holistic, inclusive, integrated, enjoyable, and engaging. Some of the key features of the NIPUN Bharat Mission are as follows:

• The Mission aims to target Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN).
• The Mission’s goal is to accomplish the needed learning objectives by the end of the third grade to increase awareness among the community, parents, volunteers, etc.
• It ensures that children should be able to read an age-appropriate unknown text and clarity at a rate of 45 to 60 words per min by the end of Grade 2 and at least 60 words per min by the end of Grade 3 respectively.
• The NIPUN Bharat Mission pays particular attention towards the development of teachers’ capacities because they will be the group that is most responsible for NIPUN Bharat’s success.

LEAD Partner Schools help in the holistic development of children by focusing on various domains of development like physical and motor development, socio-emotional development, literacy and numeracy development, cognitive development, life skills etc., which are interrelated and interdependent and will reflect in a Holistic Progress Card.  

LEAD follows the following NIPUN Bharat Mission objectives in line with NEP 2020 recommendations: 

• Helps children read with comprehension.
• Helps children understand numbers, measurement, and shapes.
• Provides high-quality teaching-learning material to engage children.
• Tracks children’s learning levels consistently.
• Uses play & activity-based pedagogy.
• Implements the Sampoorna Hindi programme to help children gain confidence in the Hindi language.
• Builds capacities of teachers, education administrators, academic resource persons, etc.
• Conducts meaningful assessments using polls, games, quizzes, etc.