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Non-Formal
preschool Education - Indoor Activities
Young children are the most vulnerable group of the
society and are most susceptible to malnutrition, morbidity,
resultant disability and mortality and at the same time, early
years are the most crucial period of life – when the
foundations of cognitive, social, emotional, language,
physical/motor development and lifelong learning are laid. In
the nutshell, early childhood care and development constitute
the foundation of human development, ICDS is designed to
promote holistic development of children under six years of
age through strengthened capacity of care-givers-mothers,
communities and improved access to basic services for improved
childcare, early stimulation and learning, health & nutrition,
water & environmental sanitation in an integrated way,
targeting young children, expectant & nursing mothers and
adolescent girls through trained workers at each level.
Services of ICDS are
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1. Non formal pre-school education.
2. Nutrition and health education.
3. Supplementary nutrition programme.
4. Health check-up.
5. Referral Services.
6. Immunization.
Objectives:
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to improve the nutritional and health status of children below
the age of six years.
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to lay the foundations for proper psychological, physical and
social development of the child.
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to reduce the incident of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition
and school dropouts.
· to
achieve effective co-ordination of policy and implementation
among various departments to promote child development.
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to enhance the capability of the mother to look after the
normal health and nutritional needs of the child – through
proper health and nutrition education.
ICDS in
Sikkim
was started in 1975 with only one Rural Project covering south
and west districts. Total strength of the project was 150
centers. Presently, Sikkim has four Rural Projects – one each
in all districts and one Urban Slum Project in Gangtok with a
total strength of 500 ICDS centers.
UDISHA – World Bank assisted training program of ICDS
UDISHA – which means ‘the Dawn’/beginning of a new day – is a
World Bank assisted program of ICDS. It recognizes ICDS as the
vehicle for social change and training as a catalyst for
generating skills in workers and awareness in the community.
All ICDS functionaries are provided with pre-service Job
Training and thereafter Refresher Training after interval of,
at least two years of continuous service in the field.
Provision of development of training material is also provided
in the project.
Regular
Training of ICDS Functionaries
Anganwadi Training Center (AWTC): State has one AWTC,
sanctioned and established during 1986. It organizes
Job/Refresher Training Course for Anganwadi workers and
Orientation/Refresher Training course for the Anganwadi
Helpers throughout the year. One Training Centre suffices the
training need of the State. AWTC follows the yearly Training
Calendar, prepared as per the training need of the field.
Supervisors and CDSOs attend Job/Refresher Training at
National Institute of Public. Co-operation and Child
Development (NIPCCD) Guwahati. Beside the regular training of
all ICDS functionaries, UDISHA has provision for:
1.
Other Training
Program which supports/strengthens the training inputs of
grass root level workers
2.
IEC Material development. Materials useful for training
purposes to be developed for use in the training. | 
