The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 proposes to overhaul the education system in alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goal 4(SDG-4): Quality Education. It recognises that teacher professional development requires a multidisciplinary perspective, cultivation of professional dispositions, ethical values and continuous enhancement of teaching-learning practices through structured mentoring by experienced and competent mentors. The NEP 2020 (Para 15.11), therefore, proposes the National Mission for Mentoring (NMM).

NMM aims to create a large pool of outstanding professionals (Mentors), who are willing to provide short- and long-term professional support and cross-learning among school teachers (Mentees), contributing to their continuous professional development/ capacity building. Aligning with this vision, NCTE has been mandated with developing and designing the modalities for this mission. Accordingly, NMM-The Bluebook, a guiding document was launched by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

The NMM Digital Platform provides a user-friendly online mentoring system ensuring quality Mentor-Mentee interactions and providing opportunities to network with experts, engage in forums to exchange learnings and best practices and disseminate findings across various domains such as school leadership and management, curriculum, pedagogy, educational policies and assessments etc. Thus, mentoring aims to create a supportive environment, enhance mentorship experiences and contribute to individual, collective and professional growth as well.