International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 5

A study of swami vivekanand on education and modern India, how ICDS can benefit in anganwari of India

  • Author:
  • Soumen Acharya
  • Total Page Count: 24
  • Page Number: 236 to 259

Consultant, National Institute of Public Co Operation and Child Development, New Delhi, India

Online published on 30 November, 2019.

Abstract

Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is the only major national program that addresses the needs of the children under the age of six years. It seeks to provide young children with an integrated package of services such as supplementary nutrition, health care and free school education. Because the health and nutrition needs of a child cannot be addressed in isolation from those of his/her mother, the program also extends to adolescent girls, pregnant women and nursing mothers the scheme is improve the health, nutrition and development of children. The program offers health, nutrition and hygiene education to mothers, non-formal preschool education to children aged three to six, supplementary feeding for all children and pregnant and nursing mothers, growth monitoring and promotion, and links to primary healthcare services such as immunization and vitamin A supplements. These services are delivered in an integrated manner at the anganwadi, or childcare center. An anganwadi worker and one helper run each center. The study was conducted in west Bengal in the anganwari centre in howrah were we wanted to see the knowledge about swami Vivekananda in the anganwari helper, anganwari worker, adolescent girls, pregnant women and women in the age up to 55 years. Ten were there in the study. The story was based on the work s of sawmiji from the teaching to society, women children, teacher and parents from the completer works of sawmiji. Based on values of Swamiji Vivekananda brings out the inherent value of education through a practical and utilitarian orientation. He explains how it humanizes and elevates man by bringing out his spiritual character. A spiritual character is not a enunciate but a person of strong convictions, who acts from a positive attitude to construct society on humanitarian ideals. Swamiji rightly expresses that education is the training which raises man from the level of a mere creature, shaped by forces outside it, to a self-reliant, dignified person, who is aware of the divinity and perfection that he as a human agent is capable of unfolding. Swami, it can be said that the new spirit infused by education, consists in an increased emphasis on the application of science to human affairs and the development of social solidarity Swamijis conviction that education alone can bring a change in the socio-economic conditions of Indian society, was based on his thorough and keen observation of the society. His conviction is based on the concrete reality of Indian society of his time, that is, of a particular time-but the way in which he elucidates the importance of education as essential for man making brings out the perennial value of education. When the story based on complete work was told the response from each was worked out the result was that the result was different, the anganwari worker knowable was better than the helper and adolescent girls, pregnant women and women. The teaching will help us to understand about each one and we can have different programs on each one

Keywords

Education, Anganwari, anganwari worker, helper, adolescent girls, pregnant women, Swamijis teaching