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Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is one of the key components of the New Education Policy, (NEP, 2020) in alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNESCO affirms it as the "holistic development of a child's social, emotional, cognitive and physical needs in order to build a solid and broad foundation for lifelong learning and wellbeing." ECCE promotes 85% of brain development, contributing a positive difference in the lives of young children. Age-appropriate use of learning and play materials like Nursery Rhymes which can enhance learning through building varied vocabulary, increasing phonological awareness, encouraging story comprehension skills, and levelled literacy intervention like Reading Comprehension entails not only understanding the words but also the content as a whole, increasing its literacy skill. Poetry in rhymes or the Nursery rhymes are designed for children. They have rhyming words in every line or on alternate lines with simple usage of common words making the entire piece easy to grasp by kids. They do not show intense human emotions but are enjoyable by children, teachers, mothers, and grandmothers. Nursery Rhymes in its versatility, effects multiple domains of child development like physical health and well-being, language and cognitive development, communication skills and general knowledge, social competence, and emotional maturity, leads to understanding of voice modulation, correct pronunciation, using the right volume in speech making them appreciate listening, reading, speaking, and writing. It was affirmed that introducing children to nursery rhymes in early childhood can have a beneficial influence on foundation of literacy-related abilities. Paper presenters urged the students to update or develop national or local level as many Nursery Rhymes, in mother tongue or national language for the pre-primary students of Garo Hills to augment the Reading Comprehension Skills as a parlay for higher academic achievements in the life of 21st century. Contextualizing specific Nursery Rhymes within domains of ECCE, some rhymes like "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"; "ABCDEFG"; "One Two Buckle my Shoes"; "Mary Had a Little Lamb"; "Row, row, row your boat" were presented as examples. It was also confirmed that from "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star" to "Mary Had a Little Lamb", some of the most recognizable children's verse in the English language was written by nineteenth century women poets and the tradition of original nursery rhyme was dominated by mothers from the sixteenth century (Gregory, 2015).