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The Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) is organising the State-level IndiaSkills Competitions 2025-26 to beforehand excellence successful accomplishment improvement by aligning grooming and appraisal with planetary occupational standards and existent manufacture needs.
The IndiaSkills Competition, a flagship inaugural of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), is implemented done the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and WorldSkills India. It serves arsenic the authoritative nationalist level for identifying, nurturing, and benchmarking skilled younker who volition correspond India astatine regional, national, and planetary WorldSkills competitions.
APSSDC Managing Director Ganesh Kumar said that successful the State-level IndiaSkills competition, a full of 48 accomplishment trades—41 idiosyncratic skills and 7 squad skills—were chosen from the nationalist database of 63, based connected manufacture relevance, workforce demand, and aboriginal maturation imaginable successful Andhra Pradesh.
Candidate Screening Phase
Mr. Ganesh Kumar said astir 54,000 candidates registered from crossed Andhra Pradesh. In enactment with WorldSkills India guidelines, a mandatory district-level online screening trial was conducted connected December 15 and 16, 2025. Based connected trial scores and recommendations of the State-Level Committee, 20 candidates per commercialized were shortlisted. In total, 1,100 candidates (820 for idiosyncratic skills and 280 for squad skills) qualified to vie astatine the State level.
State-Level Competitions
The State-level IndiaSkills competitions were held offline connected December 19, 2025, astatine assorted venues crossed Guntur and Vijayawada. Evaluations were conducted by reputed industries, starring universities, and experienced assemblage members successful accordance with WorldSkills standards and planetary champion practices.
The apical 2 candidates successful each of the 48 accomplishment trades—110 successful all, including idiosyncratic and squad categories—were selected to correspond Andhra Pradesh astatine the Regional-Level IndiaSkills competitions, scheduled for the 2nd week of February 2026 successful Hyderabad.
Mr. Ganesh Kumar added that the shortlisted candidates volition acquisition structured grooming and mentoring done online and offline footwear camps, supported by manufacture experts. Following the determination round, the national-level contention volition beryllium held successful June 2026, and the nationalist qualifiers volition spell connected to correspond India astatine the WorldSkills Competition 2026 successful Shanghai, China.
