CBSE HELP LINE ANNUAL COUNSELLING FROM 1ST FEBRUARY TO 2nd APRIL 2009

The first phase of CBSE counseling will begin from 1st Feb. to 2nd April, 2009.  This is the 12th consecutive year that CBSE will be providing counseling services to students and parents during examinations to overcome their anxiety and examination related stress.

The CBSE outreach programme is carefully designed keeping the heterogeneity of students’ population and geographical spread.  Multiple modes of communication such as telephonic counseling, Question Answers columns in news papers, Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) and online counseling through CBSE website is used to reach out to more and more examinees during this phase.

1.    CBSE TELE COUNSELLING:

CBSE started this pioneering community work 12 years back in 1998 for the first time.  The highlights of CBSE tele-counselling are :

(i)    It is offered by trained counselors and Principals from within CBSE affiliated schools.
(ii)    It is a voluntary free of cost service provided by the participants.
(iii)    It is a flexible and mobile service.

-This year as many as 43 Principals, trained counselors from CBSE affiliated govt. and private schools, psychologists and social scientists will operate this helpline individually  from India and overseas. There are 39 centres in India in the cities of Delhi, Noida, Chandigarh, Meerut, Jaipur, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Bhubneshwar, Vishakhapatnam, Jamnagar, Jabalpur, Coimbatore and for the first time from  6 new  cities of Bhopal, Nagpur, Bangalore  Guwahati, Baroda and Kollam  in the state of Kerala.

There are four helpline centres outside India at Kuwait, Dubai, Doha Qatar and Sharjah.

For the first time, CBSE has included Special Educators to take care of the specially abled children from centres located at Mumbai and Delhi. The public is advised to log on to www.cbse.nic.in for details information and timings.

For better accessibility and convenience of the students, the centres have been arranged state-wise and students are advised to call the numbers closer to their location specially while dialing the mobile numbers. The detailed list is  enclosed for wider publicity..

2.  IVRS:

First to be introduced by any Board of Education in the country, CBSE has made a unique effort to provide tele-counseling through Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) mode for the fifth consecutive year.  This service shall be available on local dial facilities within Delhi and Mumbai for the subscribers of MTNL. This will run behind a ten digit number 1250 111 102 on MTNL network.  For BSNL/Airtel Landline this will run behind a seven digit number 1250 1 02.  Reliance users can dial 55500102.

3.    Question-Answer columns:

CBSE has tied-up with national papers Like The Hindu, Hindustan Times and Hindustan Dainik for weekly question answer columns throughout the month of February.

4.    On-line counseling:

CBSE has also launched a program called Interact with Chairman since September 2009 on the official website cbse.nic.in  which will also be useful for exam related issues. Frequently  Asked Questions  have also been put up here .  For the forth coming examinations students  can  post their queries   by accessing Interact With  Chairman  and clicking at Exam Helpline.
The Director (Academic) and Controller of Examinations, CBSE can also be contacted for On-line counseling on: [email protected] [email protected].

5.    CBSE website:

Information related to examinations and techniques to cope with exam. related anxiety is also provided at the CBSE website www.cbse.nic.in by accessing icon Helpline. Or directly visit http://www.cbserod.net.in/vigilance/helpline.aspx

Students may contact counselors of their respective area. Following is an exhaustive list of counselors:

CBSE TELE-COUNSELLING FIRST PHASE 30.1.09

1st February to 2nd April 2009

The counselors will be available on the numbers during these specific timings only.

DELHI/NEW DELHI/NCR

SL. NO.	NAME	TIMINGS	TELEPHONE NOS.
01.	Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia Principal	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9811689898
02.	Geetanjali Kumar Counsellor	8.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon	9810435544
03.	Anita Sharma Principal	12.00 noon to 4.00 p.m.	9899017867
04.	Dr. B. Singh Pr. Edu. Officer	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9873173122
05.	Vithika Rahul Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9871057666
06.	Vinita Kaul Counsellor	12.00 noon to 4.00 p.m.	9810937187
07.	P. C. Bose Retd. Deputy Director	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9899105129
08.	Vijay Sehgal Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9891057775
09.	Deepa Saini Guidance Counsellor	8.00 p.m. to 00 hrs.	24621630
10.	Deepti Singh Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9911104050
11.	Meenakshi Thakkar Counsellor	8.00 p.m. to 0000 hrs.	9810043528

HARYANA, CHANDIGARH,

PUNJAB, H. P. AND J & K

01.	Ritu Kohli Principal	8.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon	9911913534
02.	Jayanti Banerjee Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9872846551
03.	Madhu Bahl Principal	8.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon	9417006590

RAJASTHAN

01.	Dr. Ashok Gupta Principal	12.00 noon to 4.00 p.m.	0141-2786401/402
02.	Seema Sharma Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	0141-2786403

U.P. & BIHAR

01.	Mohina Dar Principal	8.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon	95120-2433100 95120-2431430
02.	Avantika Arora Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9810075228
03.	Poonam Devdutt Counsellor	8.00 p.m. to 00 hrs.	95121-2760674
04.	P Anjali Metha Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9971091980

TAMILNADU

01.	Vasanthi Thiagarajan Principal	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9629141246
02.	Jaya Ravi Sankar Headmistress	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9360461571

ANDHRA PRADESH

01.

Dr. C. V. Narasimham Principal

8.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon

0891-2559519 0891-2586155

MAHARASHTRA

01.	Abnita Bir Principal	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9821742383
02.	Kana Roy Chaudhary Principal	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9833950896

GUJARAT

01.	Jaydeb Kar Counsellor & Officiating Dean of Studies	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	09998077355
02.	Jamila Firdaus Counselor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9825977437

ORISSA

01.	Mamta Banerjee Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	0674-2390443
02.	Ina Kanji Lal Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9437268558

MADHYA PRADESH

01.	Shikha Handa Counsellor	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9425412876
02.	Dr. Shikha Rastogi Counsellor,	8.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon	9826375351

KARNATAKA ( New)

01.	Dr. Srinivasa Murthy Retd. Prof. of Psychiatry	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9448697690
02.	Sneh Preet Sial Principal	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9844062651 08023517909

KERALA (New)

01.

Dr. Manu Lal Principal

4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.

9995977689

Guwahati (New)

01.

Dr. Sangeeta Goswami Counsellor

4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.

09864067594

Helpline for Specially Abled Children (New)

01.	Abha Sharma Special Educator Mumbai	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9967800337
02.	Dr. M R Shipley Special Educator Mumbai	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9833950896
03.	Hetal Savla Special Educator Mumbai	4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.	9819209623
04.	Shweta Khanna Special Educator Delhi	8.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon	9717882074

CBSE Tele-Counselling service outside India

DUBAI

01.	David Ipe Counsellor, Indian School, Dubai

KUWAIT

01.	Asha Sharma Principal, Indian Educational School, Kuwait

DOHA-QATAR

01.	Dr. Mohd Harun Khan Principal, Ideal Indian School

SHARJAH

01.	K. N. N. Pillai Principal, Sharjah Indian School