Aanganwadis

Anganwadi means courtyard. It is a government initiative functioning to look after the welfare of girl child, women and children. Anganwadi worker is trained in various aspects of health, nutrition and child development. The main objective of this programme is to cater to the needs of the development of children in the age group of 3-6 years to ensure Regular health check-up, Immunization, Health education and Non-formal Pre-school education. Pre-school education aims at ensuring holistic development of the children and to provide learning environment to children which is conducive for promotion of social, emotional, cognitive and aesthetic development of the child.

The Pre-school activities strengthen the child to get ready for primary school education with required skills to performance better candidate for school entry and also better performance for regular attendance in school. It aims at improving school enrollment and school retention in rural areas, relieve the older sibling mostly girls from the burden of child care and enable her to attend school and to prepare the children to adjust to formal school going. Empowerment of women is the hall mark of the approach of J S S P SAMITI in its development initiatives (social, political and economic).