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West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

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201CHAPTER-12INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES12.1 EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION (ECCE)Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is a majorcomponent to achieve UEEE,ECCE addressed children of the agegroup3 to 5 and prepares them to get acquainted to schoolenvironment. In <strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong> , only the Integrated ChildrenDevelopment Scheme (ICDS) run by the women and Child Developmentand Social Welfare Department catered to the pre-schoolingfacilitiesin the Government sector. Out of 20 educational district, 19 werecovered under ICDS, One district, viz. Darjeeling remained out ofcoverage. In the private sector, Kinder Garten /Nursery schoolsprovides for pre-schooling facilities. Anganwadi Centres (AWCS) setunder ICDS rendered, inter-alia, pre-schooling for children in the agegroup3 to 6 . But since in <strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong>, children of 5+years of agewere enrolled in primary school, the scope of pre-schooling remainedopen to children of 3+ to 4+ age groupThe positionshowing the number of AWCs and the number ofchildren covered in each year during 2005-06 to 2007-08 for the stateand the selected districts of Murshidabad and South 24 Parganas was asgiven below :

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