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Pune Dist Leads With Highest Junior KG Registrations
Hindustan Times Pune
|May 17, 2025
In a bid to regulate and improve early childhood education in Maharashtra, the department of education has launched a state-wise registration drive for all private pre-primary institutions catering to children in the age group of three to six years.
PUNE: These include schools operating under names such as preschool, nursery, junior KG, and senior KG.
Until now, only government-run anganwadis and balwadis were officially documented by the Women and Child Development department, while private pre-schools remained untracked.
Recognizing the lack of official data and increasing demand for transparency, the education department began the registration process 15 days ago.
According to the department's latest report, 11,173 private pre-primary centres have registered across the state. Pune district has recorded the highest number of registrations, with 1,850 schools coming forward, followed by Thane (1,134), Ahilyanagar (660), Nagpur (626), and other districts.
This story is from the May 17, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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