Mina Swaminathan, Distinguished Chair, Gender and Development, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), died in her home at Teynampet at the age of 88 due to natural causes.
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A teacher-educator and writer on early childhood education (ECE), she was appointed in 1970, by the Central Advisory Board of Education, as Chairman of the Study Group on the Development of the Preschool Child.
The report of this committee, submitted in 1972, became the basis for the scheme known as the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in 1975, a landmark intervention in the field of early childhood care and development.
She was a founder-member of the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, in 1980, and had been its Vice Chairman from 1987 to 1993.
She is survived by her husband, agricultural scientist M. S. Swaminathan, and her daughter — Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization.
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