- ULLAS - Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society.
- It is a literacy program for people over 15 who may not have attended school.
- Launched in – 2022.
- Aim - To achieve 100% literacy by 2030, which is one the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
- It also in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 which calls for adult literacy to achieve 100% literacy.
- Under the program, adult learners are taught basic reading, writing, and math (arithmetic like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) that a child in school would learn up to class 3.
- Training is provided either through a mobile app or offline, by students or community volunteers.
- After that, the Functional Literacy Numeracy Assessment Test (FLNAT), a 150-mark reading, writing and numeracy test, is administered in a person’s chosen language.
- On passing the test, the learner is certified by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) as having acquired foundational literacy and numeracy.
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