NISTHA' is:

(A) A national mission to improve learning out comes at elementary level

(B) A programme launched by Rehabilitation Council of India for its staff

(C) A capacity building programme for improving quality of school education through integrated teacher training

(D) A programme launched by University Grants Commission

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

NISHTHA stands for “National Initiative for School Heads' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement”. 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 2019-20.

Key Points

• It is a capacity-building programme for "Improving Quality of School Education through Integrated Teacher Training".
• It is the world's largest teachers' training programme to motivate and equip teachers to encourage and foster critical thinking in students.
• It aims to build competencies among all the teachers and school principals at the elementary stage.
• The functionaries (at the state, district, block, and cluster level) shall be trained in an integrated manner on learning outcomes, school-based assessment, learner–centred pedagogy, new initiatives in education, addressing diverse needs of children through multiple pedagogies, etc.

Hence it can be concluded that option 3 is the correct answer