Thursday, February 11, 2010

CBSE Starts Helpline For Students

The first phase of CBSE counseling has begun and will continue upto 8th April, 2010. This is the 13th consecutive year that CBSE will be providing counseling services to students and parents during examinations to overcome anxiety and examination related stress.

The CBSE outreach programme is carefully designed keeping the heterogeneity of students' population and geographical spread. Multiple modes of communication such as telephonic counseling, Question Answers columns innews papers, Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) and online counseling through CBSE website is used to reach out to more and more examinees.

CBSE TELE COUNSELLING:
CBSE started this pioneering community work 13 years back in 1998.
The highlights of CBSE Tele-counselling are:
(i) It is offered by trained counselors and Principals.
(ii) It is a voluntary, free of cost service provided by the participants.

This year as many as 52 Principals, trained counselors from CBSE affiliated govt. and private schools, psychologists and social scientists are operating helpline from 8 a.m upto mid-night from locations like Delhi, Noida ,Vishakhapatnam,etc across India.
There are 3 helpline centres outside India also at Kuwait, Dubai and Doha Qatar. (List Enclosed)

Counselling for Specially Abled Children

The facility to provide counseling to specially abled children was started by the CBSE last year to take care of the needs and anxiety of special children. The facility is available this year also. CBSE has for the first time setup a Centralized Call System.

The students can call on the following numbers and get in touch with counselors for one to one telephonic counseling from 8 a.m upto mid-night.

  • 1800 11 7002 (toll free)
  • 011-22236110
  • 011-22236111
  • 011-22236112
  • 011-222361132.


IVRS:
First to be introduced by any Board of Education in the country, CBSE has provided Tele-counseling through Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) mode.
For BSNL (Landline & Mobile) and Airtel - 1250102.
For Reliance (CDMA) - 55500102

ON-LINE COUNSELING:
You can log on to CBSE website and Interact with Chairman on exam related issues. The Director (Academic) and Controller of Examinations, CBSE can also be contacted for On-line counseling on: diracad.cbse@yahoo.co.in, mcsharma2007@rediffmail.com.

Download List Of Counselors & More Details

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