 "Preschool education")
The formative years (8 years and below) are the most extraordinary period of growth and development in a child’s lifetime. The foundations of learning are laid during these years. Getting the foundations right carries huge future benefits: better learning in school and higher educational attainment, which result in major social and economic gains for society.
Research shows that good quality early learning and early childhood development programmes help reduce the chances of dropout and repetition and improve the outcome at all levels of education.
In 2013, the Government of India adopted the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) policy in
