National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Curriculum Framework

The purpose of this framework is to promote quality and excellence in early childhood education by providing guidelines for practices that would promote optimum learning and development of all young children and set out the broad arrangement of approaches and experiences rather than detailed defining of the content. This Framework is firmly focused on the needs of the child and should lead to improved child care and developmentally appropriate environment for children, leading to a positive impact on quality of learning and increased attainment of learning outcomes for children participating in ECCE programmes. Furthermore, this framework focuses on providing guidelines for child care and early educational practices. ECCE interventions promote gender equity by compensating for gender biases in nutrition, health care or stimulation that may occur in the home. A gender sensitive curriculum needs to ensure that gender stereotypes are broken. Since March 2020 anganwadi centres (rural child care centres) have been closed due to COVID-19. During this time anganwadi workers have reached out to parents, using social media platforms, made home visits and while distributing supplementary nutrition and shared resources like monthly calendar of activities, video of songs, stories ad rhymes for parents to ensure continuity of learning through play.