Yasmeen Manzoor
Srinagar, April 20(KNB): The initiative of Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) to start online career and mental health counseling aimed to reduce their mental stress and keep them engaged with studies has received overwhelming response.
Following precarious situation created by the Covid 19 pandemic, Directorates of School Education Jammu and Kashmir prepared online platforms of learning by engaging experts from health department, UNICEF, NIMHANS and career counsellors for counselling and proper guidance of the students, teachers as well as to the parents.
The data shared by DSEK provides a look at different components of counseling which received good response. According to the DSEK 35.9% reached to the cell for career counseling, 26.6 percent for psychological counseling, 25 percent raised queries related to Covid 19 (25%).
Apart from these fitness counselling and counselling regarding studies of lower classes, data reveals.
Principal Secretary School Education Asgar Samoon had directed DSEK to engage with students and their parents by holding virtual interaction sessions on social networking sites like WhatsAp and ensure that the programme won’t only involve students to their syllabus but will also create an opportunity to interact with career experts from various fields, thereby helping to allay the anxiety of students.
The DSEK has also come up with district wise data of the people who reached to them. It says 20.3% reached out for counseling, followed by Baramulla 15.6% and Budgam 12.5%.
” Bandipora (10.9%) , Ganderbal 9.4%, Kupwara 7.5% reached out to to DSEK for counseling”(KNB)