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On 11th of March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic (Cucinotta and Vanelli, 2020) and the government of India imposed lockdown restrictions from 25th March 2020 (Dore, 2020). Healthcare services were geared towards saving lives and handling COVID services at the cost of routine healthcare. Child care and support are bearing the brunt of the pandemic as in any disaster and may leave long lasting effects on children’s psyche (Danese et al., 2020; Green, 2020).

With forced home stay and loss of contact with teachers, friends, trainers and counsellors, children are under stress and are losing opportunity for healthy growth and learning. Many children are unable to get the nutrition from meals which they were earlier getting in the schools (Witt et al., 2020). Recent research has documented harmful effects of outbreak of COVID-19 on children’s mental health (Duan et al., 2020 …