Question

Write a note regarding the work of Anutai Wagh.

Answer 1

Anutai Wagh was one of the pioneers of pre-school education in India. She was the professional colleague of Tarabai Modak.[1]She along with Modak pioneered a programme whose curriculum was indigenous, used low cost teaching aids and was aimed at holistic development of the participants.[2] A. D. N. Bajpai[who?] describes her as a "towering social reformer"[3] She was a recipient of the 1985 Jamnalal Bajaj Award.[4]

Answer 2

Anutai Wagh is the famous educational reformer. She was married at the age of thirteen and then she unluckily became a widow within six months and hence she returned to her mother’s house. She then took up primary teachers’ training and she worked in a private School in Pune and then later she finished her graduation from SNDT College.

Her life turned when she met Tharabhai Modak who was planning to start a preprimary school for which she proposed Anutai to join and she readily accepted.  The new concepts of Balwadi, Anganwadi and meadow school are the innovations of Autai Wagh which is practiced even today.  

She also worked for the welfare of tribal education. She also became the editor of the magazine. She was also conferred the national award for child welfare.