Poshan Bhi Padhai Bhi

New: ‘Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi’: Anganwadi Scheme for early childhood care, education launched

Context: The Union Minister for Women and Child Development introduced the government’s flagship program ‘Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi’, to focus on Early Childhood Care and Education(ECCE) at anganwadi across the country.

Role and Responsibilities of AWW:

• close to 13.9 lakh Anganwadi centres catering around 8 crore children below age of 6 years; the largest public provisioning of such services in the world.
• To organize non-formal pre-school activities,  and to help in designing and making of toys and play equipment of indigenous origin for use in anganwadi.
• To provide health and nutrition education, and counseling to breastfeeding/ Infant & young feeding practices to mothers.
• To guide Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) engaged under National Rural Health Mission in the delivery of health care services and maintenance of records under the ICDS Scheme.
• distribution of supplementary nutrition, such as take-home rations or hot cooked meals, to children and pregnant/lactating women. These provisions aim to address malnutrition and improve overall health.

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