Govt launches portal for registration of pre-schools; move to regulate them
This registration process will require pre-schools to provide details such as its name, address, enrolment figures, number of teachers and support staff and details on infrastructure among others.
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State's school education department currently has information about anganwadis and balwadis which are run by the Women and Child Development department of the state government.
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday launched a portal where pre-schools, which are largely operated by private players, can register themselves with the government.
The move is aimed at maintaining a consolidated information on various types of pre-schools active across state.
This registration process will require pre-schools to provide details such as its name, address, enrolment figures, number of teachers and support staff and details on infrastructure among others.
Even as this registration will be voluntary for the time being, considering that a dedicated Act to govern pre-primary schools is underway in Maharashtra, academicians said that launch of this portal — education.maharashtra.gov.in. — is a significant move towards regulation for pre-schools, which is a largely unregulated sector.
As per the information shared by Maharashtra’s school education department, school education until now began from Class 1, where children are admitted after completing 6 years of age.
The pre-school section – which includes classes nursery and kindergarten (junior as well as senior) and catered to children in the age-group of 3 to 6 years – remained out of the mainstream education, until now.
“However the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has brought Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) under mainstream education and with Maharashtra rolling out NEP implementation for school education, pre-schools too will be brought under mainstream education,” said an official from the school education department while highlighting that this information will help government is making of the proposed Act to regulate pre-schools.
State’s school education department currently has information about anganwadis and balwadis which are run by the Women and Child Development department of the state government.
“But there is no regulation over privately run pre-schools, which are large in number. Thus this facility of registering information about privately run pre-primary classes is now being provided by the school education department,” read the statement issued by the school education department declaring launch of the portal.
Apart from effective implementation of NEP, according to the school education department, this portal will be useful for citizens to know about pre-schools in their area. “Furthermore, this information will be used to determine the policy for pre-primary schools. It will also help the government to improve the capacity of the staff working for pre-primary,” read the statement.
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