Nukta [093C, ़ Devanagari Sign Nukta] is a generic term for the diacritic mark in several Brahmic scripts, like Devanagari that is used to represent sounds from other languages by being applied to an existing character. The word nukta, originates from the Arabic word.

We should encourage the use of Nukta where use in innate form is desired. There are lot of words which lose its essence without a nukta. Sometimes not using it gives us different meaning as well. But we need to take precaution in using nukta. The Hindi and Hindi Edition of all books of NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) used nukta properly and so it can be told that the people and students studying in CBSE are well aware of the nukta use. eg. We should always write like फ़ाइल not as फाइल without nukta.