Ensure all government schools and Anganwadis have functional toilets,
urinals and access to safe drinking water;
Although, hospitals, hostels, Anganwadis, shelter homes have been kept out of the purview of the limitations.
Of this,
only 44% of rural households and 85% of government schools and Anganwadis were provided access.
This would require significant increases in budgetary allocation and a rise in Anganwadis centers to over 16 lakh.
Hospitals, hostels, Anganwadis, shelter homes have been kept
out of the purview of the latest directive of the Finance Department.
We thereby hope to retain more children in school and Anganwadis, and create a more conducive environment for quality
learning in government schools.
There have been public policy discussions over whether to make Anganwadis universally available to all eligible children
and mothers who want their children there.
Of all states that provide eggs, Odisha which has the 13th highest proportion of stunted children,
provides the second-highest number of eggs to children in Anganwadis.
We have few thousands of Anganwadis in Tirunelveli
and each one of them has good teachers who are quite well-equipped to take care of children and we have good infrastructure and play material.
Based on evidence from neuroscience that over 85% of a child's cumulative brain development occurs prior
to the age of six and that‘school preparedness' at Anganwadis is light on educational aspects,
ECCE would facilitate play and discovery-based learning for children of that age group.
Based on evidence from neuroscience that over 85 per cent of a child's cumulative brain development
occurs prior to the age of six and that‘school preparedness' at Anganwadis is light on educational aspects,
ECCE would facilitate play and discovery-based learning for children of that age group.