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                                                                          Psychological Counselling for students

• Govt. Danteshwari PG College is a affiliated college of Shaheed Mahendra Karma University, Jagdalpur Bastar (C.G.). The Institution is a leading college in Tribal area of South Bastar region. Students from remote areas of Sukma, Bijapur, and Dantewada get admission in our college.
• These remote tribal area like Konta and Chindgarh block of Sukma and Bhopalptnam and Usoor block of Bijapur district face major problem of inaccessibility, lack of quality and quantity of the human resource, lack of transport and communication facilities, LWE activities in interior part of these districts.   
• The students from these problematic areas of following districts go through various Psychological problems and are introvert to talk about their problem, these problems were more prominent during the pandemic years. 
• Having Psychology department in the college, institution took decision to take counselling of such students from LWE affected areas, backward areas about their study related and other psychological problems. Major problem of such students are frustration, aggression, anxiety, depression, stress and lack of empathy.  
• Department of Psychology was opened in the college in 2009-2010, but no regular teaching staff was appointed, in 2020-21 Dr. Manoj Kumar Rao joined the institution as HOD of the Psychology Department, then in 2021-22 joined Dr. Dinesh Kumar Lahari and both observed the problems of students and started the counselling of students.
•  During the pandemic second lockdown also, the department was giving telephonic counselling to the needy. 
• This departmental counselling was in association with the Psychology Department of the District Hospital Dantewada converted as "Mental Health Counselling Centre" in 2022-23 and opened not only for students but also all  those who need counselling.