Conrad inaugurates ECD workshop
SHILLONG: Chief Minister, Conrad K Sangma inaugurated the dissemination workshop on Meghalaya’s experience of improving ECD (Early Childhood Development) and nutrition outcomes on Wednesday. The daylong workshop was held at Asian Confluence, Laitumkhrah.
Delivering the keynote address and sharing Meghalaya government’s vision for the provision of integrated services for children development, Chief Minister, Conrad K Sangma said that ECD and nutrition of children, pregnant and lactating mothers is an area to which the government is focused on and taking up on a priority. “While there are challenges of containing the IMR and MMR rates there is a parallel challenge of dealing with the high fertility rate which results in a woman giving birth to five six children which brings innate challenges of its own,” said the chief minister.
Conrad while highlighting the various aspects of the programme MOTHER said that economic empowerment and making woman productive is very crucial. He also said that Self Help Groups will be strengthened and added that SHGs is the best institution for ECD and other programmes for child and mother development.
Earlier, Commissioner & Secretary, C & RD, P Sampat Kumar, said that the shift of ECD is now from survival to thriving.