Ludhiana: The age of adolescents has been reduced from 14 to 9, Kurusar Sadhar GRG College of Education Principal Pargate Singh Garcha has claimed in a study and suggested that many of them are due to exposure to film, television and the internet.
Years of teenagers are now from 9 to 13, medium teenagers from 14 to 16, and end teenagers from 17 to 19.
The years of teenagers come from 15 to 24.
Garcha said: “In the age group 10 to 13, we observed a deep surge Secondary gender.
After 14, children began to build identities separate from their parents and make new relationships with peers and opposite sex types, in their desires for experiments.
At the age of 17 or 19, they have different identities, opinions formed well, and independent ideas.
“Given this, the teenage education program has been launched in the district government schools.
Children in class VIII to XII in 533 secondary, high and secondary schools Ludhiana district will be sensitive to drug abuse, adolescent reproductive health, and HIV-AIDS, in addition to being given sex education and lessons on gender equality.
Programs on physical, physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, and interpersonal problems of reproductive health.
This knowledge will provide school children the right understanding of the process of growing and instilling in themselves healthy attitude towards sex, respecting the opposite gender, and awareness of responsible sexual behavior.
This will help them understand the implications of AIDS, causes and consequences of HIV infection, as well as ways and means to prevent it.
The advocacy program was carried out at the Government Smart Smart Smart School at the Punjab Agricultural University campus on Tuesday, where the Garcha Principal and Director of Yadvinder Singh Youth Service Assistant was a resource.
District Education Deputy Officer, Nodal officer for this program, attended.
They will take the program to 5,057 state schools, where they will train a woman and a male teacher from every campus of children’s sensitization about their problems that they cannot discuss freely with their parents.
We have squeezed children through medium online but now offline activities such as painting competition, role game, and dance will be used to communicate messages.
“The State Education Council Research and Training Council (SCERT) will share a schedule.
Moga will become the first aspirational district to distribute this educational content among students