Now,counselling to help students

Sexologist Shashank Samak and counselor Ashwini Latkar will counsel the students. “Individually,of all the cases I handle,I have found that in 70 per cent cases,students are thinking of taking the extreme step due to relationship disturbances or burden of studies forced on them by parents,” said Samak.

He said the children in adolescent stages get attracted to many things due to changes in hormones. “We must educate the students on sex at the proper age so that they can adapt to these hormonal changes,” said Samak.

“It is necessary that parents keep a good dialogue with their children. These days television is eating a lot of time of children and they are finding virtual reality on the screen closer than anything else,” said Latkar.

She also narrated a case of a class 2 student who had come to her for counseling. “The girl who was close to her grandmother had suddenly started avoiding her grandmother. When I took her in confidence,she said she feared that her grandmother might become crooked like a character in a TV serial. I made her understand that TV serial was not a reality and gradually she came out of that fear,” said Latkar. Khardekar said the foundation would drop pamphlets about the help group in every school to create awareness.