SPIRIT OF MUMBAI

~ Stressed school-going children desperately need after-school stress busting mechanisms; reveal experts ~ India’s fastest growing after-school hangout ‘Scooldudes.com’ enters Mumbai and rest of  Maharashtra When ‘during-the-school’ stress levels have pushed 12 per cent of Indian children within the age-group of four to 18 years suffer from psychiatric disorders and about 20 per cent into mental disorders, yet another alarming situation has come forth. According to the Survey conducted by Scooldudes.com, India’s first-of-its-kind after-school hangout for children, has revealed that the school going children in Mumbai within the age group of 10 to 18 years have reported the maximum school and education-centric stress levels. From among 5,000 school-going children surveyed out of eight cities and 2,000 children from Mumbai within the age-group of 10 to 18 years, about 80 per cent of them were found in acute stress levels; mainly owing to factors like pressure of da...