Maharashtra govt to allow flexible reporting time for women employees in MumbaiMaharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar announced a flexible work time initiative, 'Come Early, Go Early,' for women state governme...
10 Mar, 2026, 05.14 PM IST
Gen Viksit needs to start youngIndia focuses on early childhood development through Anganwadis. These centers aim to nurture future workforce. Government initiatives supp...
19 Sep, 2025, 10.39 PM IST
WCD ministry holds workshop to identify reforms in social welfare, security sectorsThe Ministry of Women and Child Development convened a consultative workshop in New Delhi to explore reforms in social welfare and security...
10 Sep, 2025, 05.33 PM IST
Govt launches guidelines to co-locate Anganwadis with primary schoolsThe Centre has introduced guidelines for co-locating Anganwadi Centres with primary schools to strengthen early childhood care and educatio...
03 Sep, 2025, 05.01 PM IST
Gujarat HC hikes monthly wages for anganwadi workers in state to Rs 24,800; helpers to get Rs 20,300The Gujarat High Court has significantly increased the minimum monthly wages for anganwadi workers (AWWs) to Rs 24,800 and helpers (AWHs) t...
21 Aug, 2025, 05.04 PM IST
Budget 2025-26: WCD gets hiked allocation of Rs Rs 26,889 crThe Union Budget 2025-26 allocates Rs 26,889.69 crore to the Ministry of Women and Child Development, highlighting major funding for Saksha...
01 Feb, 2025, 03.00 PM IST
Govt launches anganwadi protocol to track, help children with disabilitiesThe government has launched a national protocol to provide for training of anganwadi workers to track and help children with disabilities. ...
28 Nov, 2023, 03.42 PM IST
ADB approves USD 40.5 mn loan for integrated early childhood development programme in MeghalayaAsian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday said it has approved a USD 40.5-million loan for integrated early childhood development (ECD) and...
16 Aug, 2023, 05.28 PM IST
India needs an action plan to create a stimulating environment for children aged 0-3 years: VK PaulSpeaking at the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) seminar organised by Rocket Learning, Dr Paul said, “With 85% of brain developmen...
23 Mar, 2023, 08.54 PM IST
Will Budget 2023 fix India's broken school system?The National Education Policy (NEP) of 2020 had a promising proposal to merge anganwadis and classes 1-2 of primary school in an integrated...
28 Jan, 2023, 01.03 AM IST
Meghalaya: Boiled eggs introduced to Anganwadi centre nutrition programmeThis is an addition to the hot cooked meals provided by ICDS centers to children between the age group of 3 - 6 years, pregnant and lactati...
17 Aug, 2022, 09.01 PM IST
Measures India's education sector needs from Budget 2022Given the goals of FLN by 2026–27, this budget is expected to provide rational allocation between the ‘education’ and ‘care’ components wit...
26 Jan, 2022, 05.05 PM IST
PM's Economic Advisory Council calls for complete restructuring of curriculum for early grades“Given the massive learning loss across the grades due to Covid, expanding the scope of foundational learning and numeracy (FLN) to include...
16 Dec, 2021, 08.34 PM IST
Nagaland plans to attain 100 per cent literacy by 2030Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio recently unveiled the "Nagaland SDG Vision 2030 - Leaving no one behind". It provides short, medium and long ter...
31 Aug, 2021, 10.14 PM IST
WCD's revised nutrition guidelines likely by July 31: OfficialWCD Secretary Rakesh Srivastava said this while releasing the report of a four-year-long cohort study on early childhood education impact i...
28 Jul, 2017, 06.40 PM IST
- Sesame Workshop India imparts healthy habits to school children
Sesame Workshop India and MetLife Foundation teamed up recently to expand the nutrition and healthy habits educational outreach program usi...
23 Nov, 2012, 05.34 PM IST
Superpower? 230m Indians go hungry dailyOften, in the hype over economic growth, we forget the harsh reality of India - extreme poverty, hunger, disease, lack of education, and re...
15 Jan, 2012, 03.04 PM IST