This article talks about the NCERT Introduction of Jaadui Pitara as a Teaching Learning Material for Foundational Stage. Read Here!
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) (Hindi: राष्ट्रीय शैक्षिक अनुसंधान और प्रशिक्षण परिषद) is an autonomous organisation of Ministry of Education, the Government of India. Established in 1961, it is a literary, scientific and charitable Society under the Societies Registration Act. Its headquarters are located at Sri Aurbindo Marg in New Delhi. Dr. Dinesh Prasad Saklani is the director of NCERT since 2022.
In 2023, NCERT constituted a 19-member committee, including author and Infosys Foundation chair Sudha Murthy, singer Shankar Mahadevan, and Manjul Bhargava to finalize the curriculum, textbooks and learning material for classes 3 to 12.
It is the objective of the NCERT to design and support a common system of education for the country that is national in character, as well as to enable and encourage the diverse cultural practices across the country as a whole. Based on the recommendations of the Education Commission (1964–66), the first national policy statement on education was issued in 1968.
As you would be aware, NCERT as part of its mandate to develop curriculum, syllabus and reaching Learning Material (TLM) for various stages or school education, has developed Jaadui Pitara for the foundational stage.
Jaadui Pitara uses toy-based pedagogy and has been designed by experts. ln order to enhance the ease of procurement of Jaadui Pitara as welt as other educational kits, these have been made available on GeM as special categories.
It is requested to issue directions for procurement of Jaadui Pitara and Educational Kits from GeM and for their formal introduction as TLM in your schools across the country’ This will ensure introduction of experiential learning in schools as a follow-up of National Education policy, 2020.
