Design matters
THERE is a lot of recent policy talk on preschool development. For the majority of India’s children the anganwadi is preschool. The country has some 1.4 million anganwadis, but they are in a sorry state. Run as they are, they lack the capacity to serve the needs of a child’s early development. It wasn’t meant to be like this. The anganwadi was envisioned in 1975 as a part of a bunch of services meant for the development of children.
Clearly, over the years this vision was not adequately implemented. . .
