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- The Draft National Education Policy, 2019 has observed several quality related deficiencies in the existing early childhood learning programmes. These include a) poor performance of Anganwadis in educational aspects of Early Childhood Care and Education, b) substandard pedagogy and c) lack of qualified and trained educators.
- The draft policy has recommended that ambit of the Right to Education Act should be expanded to include early childhood education and secondary education i.e. from the age 3 to 18 years. Currently, the RTE Act provides for free and compulsory education to all children from the age of 6 to 14 years.
- The draft policy has also recommended that the early childhood education should be overseen and regulated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) as part of the school system. Currently, private pre-schools and anganwadis provide early childhood education to the children in 3-6 years age group. The Anganwadis are overseen by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD).
- The policy also recommends that the mandate of the NCERT should expanded to include the development of a Curricular and Pedagogical Framework for Early Childhood Education.
- It has also suggested that the Anganwadi system should be strengthened and expanded to include a robust education component. Further, the Anganwadis and pre-schools should be co-located with primary schools wherever possible.



