The Centre is making difficult to roll out a pilot programme steady thru 10 districts in nine States to proactively join out-of-college kids within the age neighborhood of 14-18 years with the Nationwide Institute of Open Education (NIOS) for distance studying, transferring beyond its existing voluntary framework.
A high-level assembly was convened on Saturday (Could most likely well most likely moreover 17, 2026) below the chairmanship of Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, Division of College Training & Literacy (DoSEL) below the Ministry of Training, to focus on the implementation technique for the pilot programmes. It was attended by prime officials of NIOS and Grunt Training Departments, as properly as District Collectors and District Magistrates of the pilot districts.
Primarily based fully on the latest Periodic Labour Power See estimates, over two crore kids within the 14–18 age neighborhood are at camouflage out of faculty.
The ten districts are spread steady thru Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi, in line with a press divulge of the Union Training Ministry.
The initiative will encompass app-based fully mapping of out of faculty kids within the age neighborhood of 14-18 years, monitoring systems, incentive mechanisms, district-level convergence suggestions, stated a press divulge from the Ministry of Training.
Before the pilot programme is kicked off, officials will also be particular enrolment of NIOS Facilitators, distribution of starter kits, and preliminary surveys.
Published – Could most likely well most likely moreover 17, 2026 02:24 am IST
