Context: 

Union Minister for Women and Child Development launched the Centre’s flagship programme ‘Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi’, which will focus on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) at anganwadis across the country.

About ‘Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi’:

• Aim:  

1. 1. To make anganwadi centres nutrition hubs and education-imparting centres.
   2. To ensure that the ECCE material, which was prepared based on the New Education Policy, percolates to every anganwadi in the country through new training methodologies.

• Funds: The ministry has allocated Rs 600 crore for the training of anganwadi workers to implement the ECCE. 
• Training: The National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) has been roped in for the training of Anganwadi workers.

• Focus:  

1. 1. Promotion of holistic and quality early stimulation and pre-primary education for children
   2. To ensuring the use of developmentally appropriate pedagogie
   3. Emphasising the links with primary education as well as early childhood health and nutrition services. 

• The programme provides for

1. 1. Mother tongue as primary teacher instruction medium.
   2. Different types of teaching-learning material (visual aids, audio aids, audio-visual and bodily-kinesthetic aids) to Anganwadi Sevikas.

• Jan Andolan: It will help build a Jan Andolan, to involve communities in strengthening the foundations of the country’s future generations.

News Source: Indian Express

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