School Education Dept launches career guidance program in 374 valley-wide clusters

SRINAGAR: Director School Education Kashmir (DSEK), Dr. G.N. Itoo today formally launched a ‘week-long career guidance and counseling session 2025’ at Srinagar.In this regard, an inaugural ceremony was held at Girls Higher Secondary School Kothibagh, in which around 200 experts from all districts of Kashmir province participated.These experts will provide career guidance to parents and those students who have recently appeared in 10th and 12th class examinations in their respective districts.

In his inaugural address, Director reiterated that career counseling will yield positive results only when you provide proper counseling to parents about the various career opportunities during these sessions.
Dr. Itoo announced on this occasion that under this week-long program starting from March 24, mega sessions will be organized in all 374 clusters of the valley and in this regard all the cluster heads are directed to ensure the participation of parents in these sessions.

DSEK asked the counseling experts to familiarize themselves with the success stories related to different career opportunities and provide information about the latest innovative career fields to the students and their parents as well.
He stressed that experts should adopt the tools of psychology and provide effective counseling to remove the career-related concerns of students and parents.

It is pertinent to mention here that formal monitoring will be carried out for the effective implementation of this program, which will be supervised by all the Joint Directors of the Department. In addition to this, the respective Chief Education Officers of the different districts have been asked to submit a detailed report to the Joint Directors of the Department on a daily basis.

The experts who will provide counseling during these sessions belong to psychology, sociology, social work and other fields.