CBSE starts psychological counselling
The Central Board of Secondary Education on Wednesday launched psychological counselling for students through a tele-helpline, an Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) and its website, as it announced Class XII results for certain regions. The CBSE has been providing such counselling for 12 years. It will be on till June 3. Principals and trained counsellors numbering 37 from CBSE-affiliated schools, psychologists and social scientists are operating the helpline individually from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in four time-slots. They are located in 18 centres including Delhi, Noida, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Bhopal, Nagpur, Bangalore and Guwahati. There are three centres in Dubai, Doha-Qatar and Kuwait. Tele-counselling will be provided by individual volunteers free of cost.
CBSE is also providing tele-counselling through IVRS mode for the fifth consecutive year. Information and techniques to cope with anxiety are provided at the website www.cbse.nic.in.
