The document outlines the need for guidance services in India to help with student development, educational and career choices, discipline issues, vocational guidance, and school and home adjustments. It also notes challenges like overcrowded classrooms, lack of student-teacher relationships, wastage and stagnation, housing and leisure issues, urbanization, poverty, and unemployment. Guidance services could help address these issues as well as guide gifted and backward children and reduce family and social tensions.

1. Need for Guidance Services in India
 To help in the total development of the student
 To help in making proper choice at various stages of
their educational career.
 To solve the problems of indiscipline
 To help the students in vocational development.
 To help students make the best possible adjustments
to the situations in the schools as well as in the homes.
 To minimize the mismatch between education and
unemployment.

2.  To Guide Backward & Gifted Children
 Overcrowded classroom
 Less student teacher relationship
 Wastage & stagnation
 High or low standards of institutions
 Breakup of the joint family system
 Working parents.
 Absence of hereditary occupation
 The acute housing problem
 Lack of facility of open play ground &
 Proper Utilization of Leisure Time

3.  Control the problem of Urbanization
 Poverty
 Unemployment
 Illiterate Population
 Unequal opportunity in the field of education and
vacation
 Caste system & communal feeling
 To reduce family and social tensions
 Corruption etc.

4. •To identify and motivate the students
from weaker sections of society.
• To check wastage & stagnation
• To identify and help students in need of
special help.
• To minimize the incidence of
indiscipline.
• To make the idea inclusive education
successful.