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Guidance and Counseling

Notes • urge governments to enhance, facilitate or establish an agency, institution, or office with
responsibility to develop and maintain.
• policies governing the provision of educational and vocational guidance.
• the provision of training and continuing education programs for counseling and guidance
practitioners.

• the development and provision of appropriate and effective methods and materials for guidance.
• the conduct of research and development to create new, more comprehensive, and better ways
of conducting educational and vocational guidance.
• the development of appropriate methods of evaluation of counseling and guidance.
4.4.2 National Level Agencies

At national level the following organizations work in the area of guidance and counseling.
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) : The Department of Psychology
and Foundation, of Education (DEPFE), a Department under NCERT, New Delhi and Pandit
Sunderlal Sharma Central Institute of Vocational Education (PSSCIVE), Bhopal a constituent of
NCERT organize programme on guidance and Counseling. Some of the functions of PSSCIVE are :
• To advise and assist the Ministry of Human Resource Development, State Governments and
Union Territory Administration in the implementation of the Vocational Education and Work
Experience Programme.
• To function as the technical wing of the Joint Council of Vocational Education on all matters
relating to Vocational Education Programme (VEP).
• To promote, supervise and guide the establishment of a comprehensive management system
for VEP.

• To serve as a resource institution for both formal and non-formal VEP.
• To orient and train various key functionaries of VEP, including teachers.
• To evaluate and monitor VEP in States/UTs.
• To ensure uniformity and maintain quality standards in vocational teaching and learning.
• To provide guidance and counseling on Vocational Education and Training to the people at
large.
DEPFE is the department of NCERT which coordinates guidance activities in the country. The
department runs an International Diploma Course in Guidance and Counseling in collaboration
with Commonwealth of Learning, Canada. This course is offered at the Department of Educational
Psychology and Foundations of Education (DEPFE), NCERT New Delhi as well as five Regional
Institutes of Education located at Bhubaneswar Bhopal, Mysore, Shillong, and Ajmer. Besides the
department conducts training programme in the field of guidance and counseling.
Central Institute for Research and Training in Employment Service (CIRTES) was established in
October, 1964 under the aegis of Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGE & T), Ministry
of Labour Government of India. Later, in 1987, the Institute was expanded with the added
responsibilities of developing career literature and to provide guidance for the promotion of self-
employment. The Objectives of CIRTES are :
• Planning and conducting training programmes for Employment Service Personnel at State,
National and International Levels.
• Conducting research into problems concerning the activities of the Employment Service.
• Development and publication of career literature and audio-visual aids for use in Vocational
Guidance and Career Literature Programmes.

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