Challenges for Early Childhood Care and Education

One of the major issues of ECCE is the unavailability of trained teachers.
Anganwadis are currently quite deficient in supplies and infrastructure for education.
As a result, they tend to contain more children in the 2-4-year age range and fewer in the educationally critical 4-6-year age range.
Anganwadis also have few teachers trained in or specially dedicated to early childhood education.
Private pre-schools often consist of formal teaching and rote memorisation with limited play-based learning.
A 2017 study by the Ambedkar University showed that “a significant proportion of children in India who completed pre-primary education, public or private, did not have the needed school readiness competencies when they joined primary school.