Umeed helpline, which was launched by thestate child rights commissionin collaboration with NGOs in January last year to helpchildrendeal with mental Health issues, received approximately 4,000 calls in the last 12 months.
The callers included parents as well as children who want to seek help for problems like Stress, anxiety, addiction to mobile phone, etc.
So far, more than 2.5k callers have received counselling.
More than 1,000 children required counselling for academic issues, which had cropped up during the pandemic.
While 44% of the counselled callers were children between 12 and 18 years, 24% parents were among those councelled. The maximum number of callers were from Dungarpur with over 900 calls. Till last year, the helpline worked six days a week but from this year it will be operational between 10am and 7pm on all days.