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To fulfil the vision of NEP 2020, the Department of School Education & Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education has launched “Baalpan ki Kavita initiative: Restoring Bhartiya rhymes/poems for young children” for preparing a compendium of nursery rhymes/poems in all Indian languages and also in English, focusing on content relevant to the Indian context.
The purpose of this initiative is that the young children can have better learning at the Foundational stage by becoming familiar with the world around them through easily understandable and joyful poems and rhymes, in their mother tongue.
The participants of the contest can send existing poems/rhymes popular in folklore (mentioning the name of the author) or newly composed joyful poems/rhymes under three categories:
Pre-primary (ages 3-6)
Grade 1 (ages 6-7)
Grade 2 (ages 7-8)
There is no entry fee for participation. The competition is starting from 26 March 2025 till 22 April 2025, on the MyGov website (https://www.mygov.in/).
Ministry of Education, Government of India’ s National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 emphasizes the critical importance of universal and high-quality Early Childhood Education along with the power of multilingualism and the importance of including children’s languages in primary education.
