While Education Department's order to start pre-primary classes in schools could mean replacing Anganwadi workers, they ask to be upskilled.
Anganwadi workers staged protest over government starting pre-primary classes in state-run schools at Freedom Park in Bengaluru recently. (Supplied)
Anganwadi workers in Karnataka are protesting the government’s decision to start pre-primary education in state-run schools, calling it a blatant duplication of Integrated Children Development Scheme. They want resources be redirected to upscale the existing Anganwadi centres instead. The Chief Minister has since decided to set up an expert committee to implement Early Childhood Care and Education in Anganwadi centres.