The Child Development Service Scheme is the World’s largest Programme aimed at enhancing the helath, nutrition and learning opportunities of infants, young children and their mothers. It is the foremost symbol of India’s commitment to its childern- India’s challenge of providing pre-school education and breaking the vicious cycle of malnutrition, mortality, and morbidity, onthe other.

The Scheme provides an integrated approach for converging basic services through community based honorary workers, The services are provided at a centre which literally means a courtyard play centre, a childcare centre located within the village thair provid the supplementary nutrition, Imminisation, Health check-up, Referral Services, Pre-School non formal education, and , nutrition & health Education.

The Government’s emphasis had been on integrated and holistic development of children health and education, are concerned. As development has several inter- related dimensions physical, cognitive, social emotional and psychological, therefore, a synergistic approach to the implementation of the Scheme.

Needless to say, learning occurs in all these areas and influences others, all of which develop simultaneously. The Scheme therefore envisages inter- sectoral convergence of various services, viz, nutrition, health and education. These works are in synchronisation with each other.