Each of these offers a number of ICDS provides one of the best examples of a programmes and there is a great deal of diversity in developmentally appropriate, non-formal curriculum terms of the quality and outreach of the services they for preschool children. [...] The while there is a lack of fit between parental exact number of children enrolled in private schools aspirations and the services offered at the cannot be ascertained due to the unregulated anganwadi… the private sector seems to be nature of private pre-schools, but Kaul and Sankar making the most of the situation by luring the (2009) estimate it to be around 10 million. [...] Essentially, the constitutive elements Indeed, the position statement of the National of both ECCE and ECE are the same — Association for the Education of Young Children nutrition, health and education. [...] Despite their importance to of recommendations to enhance human resources in society, all the institutions meant for the provision of the area of ECE, such as having standard qualification ECCE are highly underfunded and suffer from massive COST OF UNIVERSALISING EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN INDIA 11 The main objectives of this study are: To discern To estimate To calculate the costs of the total. [...] ICDS A cross-national comparison of spending on ECE is The most prominent government intervention in the difficult because of differences in the structure of area of ECE is the ICDS programme.
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