Anganwadi

Of course, there are people like that.

And especially a lot of them are ASHA workers, Anganwadi workers, primary school teachers.

And they're given a working hour.

I mean, all of us in Voter Adhikar Manch are also people who work closely with BLOs.

There's an enormous gap.

correctly agree with Vijay Shunglu, my hold in high regard, that this dichotomy exists, that having guaranteed access, where are the teachers? What kind of pedagogy are they imparting? I thought that Vijay raised a very important point about Anganwadi workers.

They are the primary teachers because clearly all SR reports successively brings out including the last SR report that in terms of learning outcomes unless they have a critical information on certain number of words much before they enter the school the task is even more complex now as we go forward there are three very important issues one is the issue of and by the way the first one meshes with something that Meenakshi brought out exceedingly well.

It has welcomed comments.

And actually, I would say it's not just in the school meals.

We should be talking about the introduction of eggs in Anganwadis also, because even at Anganwadis, children are given supplementary nutrition in two different forms.

One is cooked food at the Anganwadi for three to six year olds because they go there every day and they do some learning through play and all that.

But there's also the take home rations for children who are under the age of three.

And I think now is a good time to do the kinds, exactly the kinds of studies that you're saying, which is to look at states which introduced eggs long ago.

For instance, Tamil Nadu has had it in the midday meal program for very long.

Also in Anganwadis, but the frequency is lower.

Interestingly, it's lower in Anganwadis.

The Bhubaneswar Development Authority, BDA, and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, BMC, jointly demolished three or transit houses near Kanyashram under Chandrasekharpur Mouza as part of an enforcement drive to clear unauthorized occupation of government land.

The operation, carried out on Tuesday, also removed forty-five toilets and bathrooms, a roughly five hundred foot laterite stone boundary wall, an Anganwadi center, and three wooden cabins.

Officials said the cleared land will facilitate construction of a branch road connecting to the right parallel road, supporting planned infrastructure development in the area.

Eight JCB machines and multiple police units were deployed for the operation.