Bengaluru: Affairs in all states will be reopened on Monday after more than 19 months.
Classes will be held for two hours a day to start with (10:00 to noon) for children in the age group 3-6.
Workers have been instructed by the Department of Women and Child Welfare to ensure that they obtain approval letters from parents of children who want to physically attend their centers.
The circular issued by the department mandates that workers and assistants have received a dose of covid vaccine.
Karnataka has 66,361 AngganWadis who serves 40 children in the age group 0 to 6 In addition, the centers serving 10 lakh pregnant women and mothers with newborn children borne in the Purna Matru Program, which provides nutritional food in the afternoon .
When centers are reopened on Monday, only children aged 3-6 will be permitted.
For children and beneficiaries of the Matru Purna program, the centers will continue to provide dry quota.
Before the pandemic struck, almost 19 lakh children in the age group 3-6 were registered at Anganwadis.
“However, there is no food that will be provided at Anganwadis for the first 2-3 weeks, and the decision will only be taken after the review.
But the supply of dry rations for children’s family will continue until then,” said Uma Mahadevan, the main secretary, ” , The welfare department of women and children.
Circular details of covid behavior that need to be followed in the center Cooking, water storage tanks and water filters are cleaned.
Consider the recommendation of the Technical Advisory Committee that children under 5 do not need to use a mask, round has not yet mentioned anything about the mask for children.
In addition, parents must be instructed not to send their children to an affirmaid if they show symptoms of covid-19 like fever, cough, cold, sore throat, body pain and shortness of breath, said official.
“We also instructed Teachers and Helper Anganwadi to educate children to avoid touching their faces, and to cover their mouths and noses when they coughed and sneezed.
Parents will be instructed by the teacher not to send their children to the countrywadist Covid.
– Positive or is the main contact of covid patients or have symptoms, “said the Department of Welfare of Women and Children.