Rajasthan: Around 40 different coaching centers in Kota join hands together to provide 24 hours helpline for students in counselling. This to reduce stress from their mind.
Kota in Rajasthan have come forward together to launch a round-the-clock helpline that will offer counselling, track callers suffering from despair. This is a nice step to help students. Kota is considered as coaching hub of the country.
The movement comes after a rise in cases of student suicides in Kota. The police have filed 24 suicides by students so far. Students face huge pressure and mental strain when preparing for exams and often resort to taking certain thrilling steps.
After a flow in cases of student’s suicides, institutes that offer corporate coaching in slots of nearly 5 to 6 hours day have counsellors on board.
Counselor Vinod Sahni said, “The problems that the students expose vary from lack of concentration, dipping confidence levels to depression but counselors feel they have their limitations. Parents sometimes don’t support and understand the children. Students try to do well but parents sometimes don’t trust them and have a lot of expectations from them,”
People who man the IIT coaching factories of Kota feel the pure number of students makes it impossible for them to be given enough care.