Sixteen months after the Mental Health Bill was signed into law, the Federal Government has yet to establish a Department of Mental Health Services in the Federal Ministry of Health
The Department of Health launched a comprehensive programme at the Government Higher Secondary School in Chuchot Shamma, Leh, which will cover all schools.
The employees alleged that despite giving 7-14 years of their lives to the job, they were being replaced by another lot of contractual employees, which, they said, was not permissible under law
"The idea is to come up with a comprehensive physical and mental development programme for schoolchildren, with a focus on nutrition to minimise cases of anaemia and to strengthen their mental health to reduce increasing incidence of anxiety, depression and suicides," said a senior government official.
Chandrashekar Channapatna Rajannachar, a well-known psychiatrist and philanthropist in Karnataka, is fondly called a "People's Psychiatrist". His yeoman services have got him the prestigious Padma Shri award in 2024.During his career, .