Birla Institute of Management Technology has been taking various initiatives toward maintaining the emotional well-being of our students. For two years now, we with the help of faculty mentors are running a mentoring program for students. To provide additional hand-holding to students of all courses, BIMTECH is taking a new initiative. It is associating with ‘YourDOST.’
YourDOST is an online emotional wellness platform that leverages technology to provide convenient, anonymous and confidential 24×7 support to those in need. Over 900 experienced emotional wellness experts are available through the web and mobile application. Support is provided without having to reveal one’s identity. Experts provide support in the fields of Life Coaching, Grief Counselling, Confidence Building, Personality Development, Career Coaching, De-addiction Support, Relationship Counselling, Time Management, Social Anxiety and many more. The organization is operational in some leading institutes of the country like IIM-Indore, IIM-Trichy, IIIT Bangalore, Sharda University, VIT-AP, IIT Delhi, NID Ahmedabad, IIT Patna, IIT Kharagpur, etc.
The program was launched on 17th August 2018 at 4.30 pm in seminar hall 2nd floor and Richa Singh- CEO & co founder of YourDOST addressed the audience. While the launch of the event Director A.H. Chaturvedi mentioned the significance of the new initiative by stating “Mental health is more important than physical health & one should take right kind of counselling from the right counsellor, there is no other way out for mental illness.” Students can avail this facility throughout the year 24×7 to seek support. Bimtech has collaborated with YourDOST which makes this facility and counselling free of cost for the Bimtech students. Any student can avail the benefit of free counselling by logging in through Bimtech ID or using Bimtech’s wifi.
