Abstract:
Global efforts are in progress to effectively promote healthy child development through interventions in health, education, and other sectors. The WHO, UNICEF and World Bank’s Nurturing Care Framework has five key domains; however, substantial inequities exist and the pandemic and other major disruptions to child health and development make the challenge of progressing towards the SDG 4.2.1 vision of enabling all children to reach their developmental potential immense (1). There is need to address gender inequalities, food insecurity, and safety concerns .Comprehensive and sustained efforts are continuing towards nurturing the nurturing care environment(2), and accelerating promotion of ECD through Systems thinking (ECDAN 2022). The holistic Dayalbagh ‘Way of Life’ which is being practiced for last 108 years, becomes more relevant in present context, as it provides a blend of both Eastern simplicity, culture and beliefs with Western scientific temper and educational excellence. Pursuing golden mean path of ‘Better Worldliness” the environment is conducive for evolving children with Superhuman qualities , through its Sant Su(perman)Evolutionary Scheme under Intuitive Mentorship. Launched in January 2017 by Revered Prof. P.S Satsangi, Father of ‘Systems Movement ‘in India, former Dean of IIT Delhi, and Managing Director, Foundation For Innovation and Technology- Transfer, the scheme enrolls infants and children at very early age of 3weeks for free without discrimination of caste, creed, color or gender and reaches from cream of the society to the last and the lowest. Nurturing children in lap of Mother Nature along with selfless community participation at the agroecology cum precision farming fields, enriched with yogic exercises, chanting of mantras and meditational vibes, developing their full potential where the whole is greater than sum of its parts. The continuum of childhood care and education seamlessly merges into the highest levels of education at DEI. The paper presents comparison of experimental and control group on their six dimensional potential :Anthropometry, cognition, social quotient ,emotional quotient ,fluid intelligence and pure thought (Intuition) based on 6 years longitudinal follow up.
