CBSE board starts counselling for students and parents

The CBSE class 10 and 12 board examinations are starting March 3. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday started its annual counselling for students and parents to reduce stress.

Multiple modes of communication such as telephonic counselling, question-answers columns in news papers, interactive voice response system (IVRS) and online counselling through the CBSE website will reach out to more and more examinees during this phase.

This year, at least 52 principals, trained counsellors from CBSE-affiliated government and private schools, psychologists and social scientists are operating this helpline from 8 a.m up to midnight.

The counselling facility will run from locations like Delhi, Noida, Chandigarh, Meerut, Jaipur, Faridabad, Bhubaneswar, Vishakhapatnam, Jamnagar, Jabalpur, Coimbatore, Bhopal, Nagpur, Bangalore, Guwahati, Kerala, Ludhiana, Kanpur, Bhilai and Pune across India.

There are three helpline centres outside India also at Kuwait, Dubai and Doha.