Student’s Counselling Helpline by CBSE Starts on 1st Feb 2012

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is starting counselling helpline for students who are appearing in board exams this year.

Students can contact on a toll free number 1800-180-3456 from today (1st February, 2012) to 16th April, 2012 between 8 a.m. to midnight.  
According to CBSE official the counselling is an outreach programme which is carefully designed keeping the heterogeneity of student population and geographical spread.

Students can also seek assistance through online counselling on official website of CBSE (http://cbse.nic.in/welcome.htm) and question answer column in newspapers. 

She also said that this year, approximately 67 experts, including principals, trained counsellors from CBSE affiliated government and private schools and few psychologists are participating in tele-counselling.

This year experts from Kendriya Vidyalyas of Jammu and Kashmir and Kolkata will also provide counselling the students appearing in board exams this year.

Apart from this, around 11 counsellors from foreign countries like Qatar, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Nepal are also participating in the programme of providing counselling to students.