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The State Project Director (SPD) of Samagra Shiksha, B. Srinivasa Rao, connected Wednesday announced that each students studying successful government, section body, aided and backstage schools crossed Andhra Pradesh volition acquisition mandatory screening done ‘Prashast 2.0’, an upgraded app for screening 21 types of disabilities successful children.
Mr. Rao said the inaugural was being implemented for the world twelvemonth 2026–27 arsenic per the directions of the Central Ministry of Education to facilitate aboriginal recognition of Children with Special Needs (CwSN) and guarantee that they person due acquisition enactment and interventions.
The SPD said that Prashast 2.0 had been integrated with UDISE+, making the screening, monitoring and recognition process much transparent and systematic. Headmasters and Principals had been instructed to personally supervise the screening process and guarantee that nary pupil enrolled successful their instauration was near out, thereby achieving 100% screening coverage.
Key instructions
Headmasters, teachers, Special Education School Assistants and IERPs moving successful Bhavita Centres crossed each schoolhouse managements person been asked to implicit registration and activation connected the Prashast app. All people teachers indispensable implicit Part-1 screening for each pupil successful their classes and based connected the screening results, Special Educators and Bhavita Centre unit would behaviour Part-2 screening wherever required, pursuing the app guidelines.
District Educational Officers and Additional Project Coordinators person been directed to organise consciousness and grooming programmes astatine the territory level for teachers, peculiar educators and different stakeholders connected the effectual usage of the app.
Mr. Rao said that according to the timeline decided for the implementation of the drive, institutional/Admin logins by headmasters and principals should beryllium created and activated during June-July, 2026, mapping and duty process by people teachers and peculiar educators would beryllium done successful August, completion of Part-I screening for each students by wide teachers successful September and completion of Part-2 screening by peculiar educators wherever indispensable by October, 2026.
