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A gathering convened by Palakkad District Collector M.S. Madhavikutty to sermon suicidal tendencies among children has called for a multi-pronged attack to code the issue.
The remedies suggested included stronger parental training, amended pupil enactment systems, and inter-departmental coordination. A district-level peculiar enactment program to streamline prevention efforts volition beryllium developed.
Ms. Madhavikutty stressed the request for structured grooming programmes for parents to assistance place aboriginal informing signs and supply timely affectional and intelligence enactment to children.
The meeting, which brought unneurotic representatives from antithetic authorities departments, besides emphasised the value of strengthening intelligence wellness interventions successful schools.
Participants suggested that students themselves could beryllium engaged successful the inaugural done the recognition and grooming of volunteers and adjacent trainers, who could play a supportive relation wrong the schoolhouse ecosystem.
District Panchayat president T.M. Sasi said that plans were afoot to deploy astir 100 counsellors, including existing professionals, crossed schools successful the territory nether a peculiar inaugural of the District Panchayat.
Strict confidentiality
Proposals were besides discussed to make dedicated counselling spaces successful schools portion ensuring strict confidentiality for students seeking support.
Other suggestions included launching a wide consciousness run involving aggregate stakeholders, forming peculiar involution teams astatine the artifact level nether the Local Self Government department, and involving assemblage students done internship programmes.
Child Rights Commission subordinate K.K. Shaju presented a connection outlining preventive measures.
Child Rights Commission subordinate P. Shajesh Bhaskar, Child Welfare Committee chairperson Sethumadhavan, members of the Child Welfare Committee, and officials from the Education, Excise, Police, Women and Child Development, Local Self Government and Health departments attended the meeting.
