Context:
Recently a mobile application for Ullas was launched.
Key details:
Full Form:
The ULLAS – Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society
Aim:
To promote basic literacy.
This is a user-friendly and interactive app which will serve as a digital gateway for learners to engage in diverse learning resources through the DIKSHA portal of NCERT.
ULLAS will focus on promoting:
- functional literacy,
- vocational skills,
- financial literacy,
- legal literacy,
- digital literacy, and
- empowerment of citizens to involve in nation-building of the country.
It imparts basic education, digital and financial literacy and critical life skills to citizens aged 15 and above who lost on the opportunity to go to school.
It is being implemented through volunteerism.
SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB