• Counselling sessions are meant for personal advice/guidance and academic tutoring. No formal teaching, as it has obtained today, is done.   

• Counselling sessions are conducted through Learning Resource Centres.

• Attendance to counselling sessions is optional.

• Making attendance to counselling sessions mandatory or allocating a certain weight to attendance for internal/final assessment will not only impinge on learner autonomy but also is a violation of the philosophy of open distance learning (ODL).

• ODL leaves the onus of learning on the learner. ODL makes available all possible facilities and leaves the learner to decide which one to choose.

• Course requirements will determine session timings, duration, frequency, etc., as against the hitherto practice of allocating a certain number of counselling sessions to all the Courses.

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