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Samagra Shiksha State Project Director (SPD) B. Srinivasa Rao has announced that from the adjacent world year, marks obtained successful the vocational taxable volition beryllium included successful the SSC (10th Class) marks memo and it volition play a important relation successful pupil grading.
Speaking astatine State-Level Skill Competition 2025–26, held successful Vijayawada connected Monday (December 29), Mr. Rao said that inspired by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the authorities had decided to alteration vocational acquisition from an optional add-on into a beardown instauration for students aboriginal careers and informed that fund proposals were being prepared to present vocational acquisition successful each Government High Schools crossed the State. The enactment of vocational trainers volition beryllium conducted strictly done Computer Based Tests (CBT) and connected a merit basis, helium said.
Mr. Rao emphasised the request to determination distant from rote learning and said activity-based learning, akin to the practices followed successful countries similar Finland, was being actively promoted successful the State. “The halfway nonsubjective of the programme is to equip students astatine the precocious schoolhouse level itself with applicable beingness skills specified arsenic fixing a leaking pat oregon repairing a bicycle puncture, truthful they tin confidently code mundane challenges, not simply people marks,” helium said.
After going astir the lawsuit that showcased 260 projects crossed 10 trades, presented by students from 26 districts astatine the accomplishment competition, the SPD said the State School Education Department, done Samagra Shiksha and the Vocational Education (Skill Education) wing, had initiated important reforms with the nonsubjective of fostering a civilization of hands-on learning, beyond specified textbook knowledge, among students.
Officials who spoke connected the juncture clarified that vocational acquisition was not meant to bounds students to being manual workers, but to nurture them arsenic aboriginal automobile engineers, innovators and entrepreneurs. They underlined the immense opportunities disposable successful sectors specified arsenic agriculture, horticulture and nutrient processing, and urged teachers and headmasters to make greater consciousness astir vocational pathways among students.
Winners of the contention were rewarded with currency prizes of ₹25,000 arsenic archetypal prize, ₹15,000 arsenic 2nd prize and ₹10,000 arsenic 3rd prize, on with medals and certificates
Additional State Project Directors, Samagra Shiksha, M.R. Prasanna Kumar and K. Ravindranath Reddy, State Institute of Educational Management and Training (SIEMAT) Director V.N. Mastanaiah, Director of Government Examinations K.V. Srinivasulu Reddy, State Finance Controller Rajagopal and others attended the programme.
