Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) free helpline counseling service is flooded with calls of distress students seeking help from the counsellors for their mental trauma.
The State board for the first time has set up a free helpline counseling service to help those students who were unsuccessful or have relatively low score in the examination and are in distress. This helpline service started on Wednesday and within two days approximately 100 calls have been attended by the counselors.
Ever year approximately 30 per cent students fail to make out in JAC examination. Because of this they undergo through mental trauma which becomes risky for the students as some of them cannot gather the courage to accept the reality and they try to end their life or take wrong step which lead them towards a dark future to stop it this free helpline counseling service has been started this service will be available till May 16 to help the students.
Psychologists from Ranchi University Dr Renu Diwan, Dr A.K. Singh, Dr Rohita Vikas, Dr Shahid Hasan, and Dr S. Singh are the are counseling the students here.
Chairperson of Jharkhand Academic council (JAC) Dr Anand Bhusan said, “It is always seen that students who are unable to pass the exam or secure low marks get disappointed easily and hesitate or do not feel comfortable to share their mental distress with their close ones. In order to help such students this year onwards we have started this free helpline counseling service wherein we are receiving good response”.
“We are receiving calls of students who are suffering from different mental trauma among which unsuccessful or low scorer students are the maximum callers. Apart from them some are facing financial problems while some are getting difficulty in choosing their subjects. Through this helpline we are trying to guide them in our best possible way,” Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Head of Psychology department of Ranchi college said.