GS PAPER II: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.

Context: Ministry of Tribal Affairs and NCERT come together on a joint mission for NISHTHA Capacity Building Programme for Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRSs) Teachers and Principals.

NISHTHA-National initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement Program

• It is a national flagship program of NCERT.
• The capacity building program is aimed to build competencies among teachers and school principals and Improving Quality of School Education through Integrated Teacher Training.  
• It affirms the National Education Policy (NEP-2020) recommendation of “Providing In-service continuous professional development, as these will be strengthened and substantially expanded to meet the needs of enriched teaching-learning processes for quality education.”
• The Department of School Education and Literacy has launched a National Mission to improve learning outcomes at the elementary level through an Integrated Teacher Training Programme called NISHTHA under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha in 2109-20.
• NISHTHA is a capacity building programme for "Improving Quality of School Education through Integrated Teacher Training". It aims to build competencies among all the teachers and school principals at the elementary stage.
• NISHTHA is the world's largest teachers' training programme of its kind.
• The basic objective of this massive training programme is to motivate and equip teachers to encourage and foster critical thinking in students.
• The initiative is first of its kind wherein standardized training modules are developed at national level for all States and UTs.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1728867

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