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The Andhra Pradesh authorities has taken a proactive measurement towards integrating intelligence wellness and vocation guidance into the schoolhouse acquisition system, marking a caller opening successful holistic education, said M.R. Prasanna Kumar, Assistant State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha.
He was speaking astatine a seven-day residential grooming programme, inaugurated astatine Maris Stella College successful Vijayawada connected Monday, for the Project Management Unit (PMU) and District Counsellors nether the Mental Health and Career Guidance Project. The programme is being jointly organised by Samagra Shiksha, EdCIL and UNICEF.
Mr. Prasanna Kumar besides highlighted the State government’s committedness to nurturing the affectional and vocation maturation of students. He said that 255 intelligence wellness counsellors person already been appointed crossed the State, and the section is readying to enlistee 1 counsellor per mandal totalling 679 counsellors soon. Strengthening systems for intelligence wellness and vocation guidance among students is simply a cardinal extremity of Samagra Shiksha, which helium described arsenic a milestone inaugural successful Andhra Pradesh’s acquisition sector.
M.V. Krishna Reddy, Director, State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), said trained counsellors should guarantee continuous enactment to code the behavioural changes seen among adolescents. He besides stressed that students from classes 9 to 12 spell done a captious phase, wherever due vocation guidance and affectional mentoring are indispensable to assistance them absorption connected their strengths and marque informed beingness choices.
Indla Ramasubba Reddy, elder psychiatrist and director, Indlas Hospitals, observed that today’s younker are facing aggregate affectional and behavioural challenges specified arsenic narration stress, failures successful love, addictions, and anxiety. He explained that these are not simply disciplinary issues, but reflections of heavy intelligence and societal changes influenced by media exposure, adjacent unit and integer dependency.
He underlined the value of nonrecreational counselling, stating that portion parents and elders whitethorn connection affectionate advice, deficiency of nonrecreational guidance tin pb to guilt oregon rebellion among adolescents.
B. Ashok Kumar, Research Scholar, NIMHANS, consultants from UNICEF, representatives from Leadership for Equity and MHITR laminitis R.S.V.N. Sharma and others were present.
