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The State authorities has issued an bid to commencement Early Child Care Education (ECCE), pre-primary classes of LKG and UKG, successful 4,056 authorities schools crossed the State successful 2025-26.
The classes volition apt statesman successful the world twelvemonth 2026-27.
The deficiency of pre-primary classes successful authorities schools is seen arsenic 1 of the main reasons wherefore parents opt for backstage schools, among a big of different reasons. To close this, the State authorities has begun a programme to commencement ECCE classes successful authorities schools.
The authorities presently runs pre-primary classes successful 2,619 schools, started betwixt 2018-19 and 2024-25. Further, the State Budget 2025-26 announced that the authorities would further commencement pre-primary classes successful 5,000 much authorities schools successful this fiscal twelvemonth astatine an estimated outgo of ₹70 crore.
Implementing this Budget proposal, the State authorities connected November 14, 2025, issued an bid to commencement caller ECCE classes successful 4,056 authorities schools and released a database of the same. Of these, the ECCE classes volition beryllium started successful 1,105 schools nether the Samagra Shikshana Karnataka scheme, successful 126 PM Shri schools, successful 1,126 schools by the Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB) and 1,699 Karnataka Public Schools (KPS) magnet schools.
Apart from the KPSs, which are scheduled to statesman from 2026-27, wherever dedicated classrooms volition beryllium built for the same, successful different schools, the ECCE classes volition beryllium conducted successful anganwadis located connected the schoolhouse premises. A minimum of 20 and a maximum of 40 students successful the property radical of 4 to 5 volition beryllium enrolled successful each of these schools, the Department of School Education and Literacy said.
Permission has been fixed to name 1 teacher and 1 helper for each pre-primary class. These classes volition beryllium conducted successful a bilingual mean successful some English and Kannada.
The authorities has said mid-day meal, blistery milk, and supplementary nutritious food, including ovum and banana, volition beryllium distributed arsenic per the nutritional values of mid-day repast fixed by the Union authorities to pre-primary children.
