Karnataka govt to implement NEP in 20,000 anganwadis this academic year

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The National Education Policy (NEP) will be implemented in anganwadis, as per the announcement made yesterday by BC Nagesh, the minister of education and literacy for the state of Karnataka. The education department will lay the groundwork for this to happen, along with the women and child development department. He said that 20,000 anganwadis across the state would serve as the government’s initial test sites for the NEP.

Addressing the press, Halappa Achar, Minister of Women and Child Development said that the state government will be ready with the framework by October or November after the Centre publishes the national curriculum. “There are six committees formed by the government to create a state curriculum framework for early childcare and education. These six committees will have different task forces that propose the curriculum, teacher training and learning capabilities among other guidelines, which will be on par with the NEP. We will first experiment with the NEP in 20,000 anganwadis across the state. Depending upon the success in these anganwadis, we will further implement it in the rest of the anganwadis.”

Children will be enrolled in anganwadis at the age of three years, considering that they will be mature and intellectually able to grasp concepts,as per the NEP, the minister added.

The minister also mentioned that activities like chilipili (experiential learning) and nali-kali are already underway in around 13,333 anganwadis and that Karnataka will have an edge when the NEP is implemented.

There are around 66,361 anganwadis in the state wherein, 6,017 workers are degree holders, 40,786 have completed SSLC, 14,303 qualified till PUC and only 737 are post-graduates,said Achar.

“Most of the anganwadi workers are between 42 and 46 years. These workers must be trained appropriately to implement NEP at the early childcare and education level,” he said.

Department of State Educational Research will train the workers and Training offices or at institutions that offer diplomas in education (D.ED).

“I have requested the central government to assist in building additional anganwadis to cater to the children who are out of the early education stage. We will ensure that the new anganwadis are built within the public school premises so that children do not have to look out for other schools to pursue their primary and secondary education.”, Achar further added.

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