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Andhra Pradesh Priorities: Early Childhood Development - Shariff
1. Pre-school Education at Anganwadi Centers
Abusaleh Shariff,
US India Policy Institute, Washington DC
and
Amit Sharma,
People Research on India’s Consumer Economy & The World Bank, New Delhi
Andhra Pradesh Priorities conference, Vijayawada, June 18-20
2. Pre School Education at Anganwadi Centers
PSE activities at AWCs: Stimulate child’s thinking and pedagogy
• Free conversations
• Story telling
• Songs/poem recitation
• Counting
• Drawing/painting
• Outdoor games
• Puzzle solving
• Matching colours and
• Clay modeling
10. Importance and need of this study
• Enrolment at Anganwadi Centers (AWCs) is low
• Quality of pre-school education (PSE) at AWCs is rather low
11. Low level of enrolment at AWCs
70%
49%
ENROLMENT (3-6 YRS OLD)* PSE ATTENDANCE (4 YRS OLD)**
* The Planning Commission, 2011
** ASER, 2017
PSE – Pre-school education
12. Low level of enrolment at AWCs
• Investigators’ observations on accuracy of maintenance of different
records (%AWC)
Source: The Planning Commission, 2011
44%
45%
45%
MAINTENANCE REGISTERS MAINTENANCE OF
ATTENDANCE
RECORDING INDIVIDUAL
GROWTH CARDS
13. Low quality of education
• Quality of pre-school education (PSE) at AWCs is rather low
• Children spend only about 99 minutes per day on PSE by AWWs in AP
• Only about one-half of all AWCs in India level are found to have basic facilities
such as proper books, drawing materials, puzzles etc.
• About three fourth of AWWs are educated up to class 10 or below
14. Responsibilities of Anganwadi Workers other than providing PSE
1. Providing supplementary feeding to children
2. Distributing take-home rations from the AWC
3. Organising immunisation sessions
4. Maintaining immunisation records to ensure full coverage
5. Distributing iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets
6. Treating minor illnesses and referring cases to medical centres whenever
necessary
7. Weighing children and recording weights on a growth chart for growth
monitoring and to detect growth faltering
8. Providing nutritional and health related advice to women and adolescent girls
in the community
9. Maintaining birth records of all children born in the community covered by the
AWCs
10. Other unplanned activities, e.g. handling door to door programs like Pilupu,
Aadharana
16. Impact of quality of tutoring at PSE level
Source: ASER, 2017
ECEQAS – Coefficients for quality of programme attended by children
SRI – School Readiness Instrument: used to test Children’s cognitive, pre-literacy, and pre-numeracy
19. The solution
• Incentives to be given to every child for attending AWC PSE
• Equivalent to 5% of per capita GSDP of the state per annum (Experience from
China)
• ~ INR 6,000 per annum per child
20. Costs
• Total estimated cost per child per annum – about Rupees 6000
• Total estimated cost of intervention per annum – Rupees 333 Crore
21. Benefits
• An increase of 35% in enrolment in AWC PSE
• Translates into enrolment of additional 1.13 lac 4-year-old children per year
• An increase of 23% in labour market wages
• Total estimated benefits of intervention per annum – Rupees 3,479 Crore
24. The solution
• Hiring dedicated trained specialized pre-school volunteers from
private sector to participate in delivering quality education at AWCs
• JPAL study in rural Karnataka, 2017
25. Costs
• Total estimated cost per child per annum – about Rupees 7000
• Total estimated cost of intervention per annum – Rupees 1,183 Crore
26. Benefits
• An increase of 13.3% in labour market wages
• Total estimated benefits of intervention per annum – Rupees 21,815 Crore
