Improving Early Childhood Education in Uttar Pradesh - UP Universities
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There has been significant improvement in early childhood education in Uttar Pradesh. There are 1.8 lakh Anganwadi centres run by the Department of Women and Child Development. The Anganwadi centres (AWCs) will now be given the designation as ‘Blavatikas’ - Pre-primary grade.
The Anganwadi centres serve children aged between 3 - 6 years, infants, adolescent girls and pregnant women. Each centre has an Anganwadi worker (AWW) and a helper. These workers have 25 daily tasks to do like educating mothers during pregnancy, checking children’s health and nutrition, providing supplementary nutrition, caring for children during their first 1000 days and educating teenage girls about hygiene.
Role of AWWs
● The daily tasks of AWW include managing the centre, attending the events in the community like births and deaths and conducting health...