TRIBALCHILDREN’S HEALTH AND HYGIENE PRACTICES DURING EARLY CHILDHOOD

Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is an indispensable foundation for lifelong learning and development, and have critical impact on success at the primary stage of education. It therefore becomes imperative to accord priority attention to ECCE and invest adequately by providing commensurate resources. The present study was conducted in anganwadies centres of Nizamabad and Kamareddy districts of Telangana state. The result reveals that there were significant differences in the health and hygiene practices followed in anganwadies among tribal children during early childhood