Policy Brief FINANCING CHILDCARE IN INDIA - A STATE RESPONSIBILITY

The government is the largest Pre-school education under the Samagra provider of childcare services, and the public Shiksha Abhiyan (SMSA) is recognised as a provisioning of childcare is largely considered to crucial means of upgrading the lives of children in be part of the social sector funding (Education, the 3-6 years age group. [...] However, the details of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Ministry the share of the pre-school budget in the total of Education, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Ministry of Samagra budget are not available in the public Rural Development, Ministry of Public Works domain. [...] The resource envelope provision and the sector's was as high as 1.6% of the GDP of Sweden and 1.1% of the GDP of Finland (Kundu et al., 2021). [...] A study conducted by Cleaveland resources, the process of financing childcare and and Krashinsky (2003) noted that improving the its related components requires identifying and qualifications and skills of childcare workers is a addressing the demand-supply gap at the outset. [...] An ILO grants can be used to strengthen the estimate for 82 countries shows that extending universal childcare would require an additional childcare system: annual investment of 1.5 % of the GDP by 2035, The 15th FC has recommended a 41 % share of over and above the current public spending that the states in the central taxes for the 2021-26 amounts to 0.3 % of the GDP (Henau, 2022).