Appointing counsellors in campuses still not mandatory

Updated On: 13 January, 2014 09:21 AM IST | | Niranjan Medhekar

<p>Psychologists say that if the government makes it mandatory for all colleges to appoint a full-time counsellor, only then will it be feasible for the institutes to initiate this move</p>

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With the number of suicide cases or clinical depression faced by students on the rise, city colleges have not yet arranged for counseling facilities on their campuses. University of Pune (UoP) has not accumulated any data enlisting the number of colleges under its jurisdiction that have counselling centres.

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