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CBSE Tele-Counselling From May 23
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will start its second phase of tele-counselling from May 23. Open till June 6, this is the first time that the tele-counselling is being offered by the CBSE through the Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) this year.
To be conducted by 39 principals and trained counsellors from Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Jaipur, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Noida, Meerut and Bhubaneshwar as well as Doha-Qatar, Dubai and Kuwait, online counselling will also be available. Students can also visit the website www.cbse.nic.in
Said Abdul Mabood, director of Snehi, an NGO that runs a post-exam helpline called Hopeline: Weve been getting result-related calls since last week. The queries range from simple anxiety about What if I dont get the stream I want?, to which course to pursue. Said Etishree Bhati, counsellor in DPS, R K Puram, who also works for the CBSE helpline: In this phase of CBSEs counselling, most of the calls are from students. The questions that get asked mostly, according to Bhati, are What will I do if the result is bad? and a request to check whether the student has actually failed.
Said Mabood: Last year, of the 700 calls that we got, a large number was about which course and college to apply to. Almost 15% of the calls are from high achievers. They feel anxious about how they will fare at the national level, said Mabood. The good news: According to Snehi, only 1% of the calls last year were from severely depressed students.
The IVRS service will be available from May 24 on local dial facilities within Delhi and Mumbai for all subscribers of MTNL. While the MTNL service will be available on the ten-digit number 1250-111-102, for BSNL it will be open on 1250-1-02.
Students dialling from Karnataka, West Bengal, Punjab, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Haryana will have to dial 95+STD code of cities of Bangalore, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Ahmedabad, Indore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad and Gurgaon + 1250-1-02.
Contact Nos.: Students can call at: 9873144008, 27014447, 9313984889, 25541316, 9322121048
Sources: Online Resources