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'Preventive, promotive, & responsive,': IIT-Roorkee drafts mental health policy for students

February 16, 2026 9:54 am

The process was advanced through SAHYOG 2.0, an inter-IIT discussion aimed at gathering and sharing inputs from other IITs.

Treating mental health as negotiable in case of pregnancy, and treating injury to mental health as imaginary unless medically proven, raises concerns around the failure to respect the right to equality and reproductive justice.

Connect the dots: Mental health and women's reproductive rights

November 27, 2025 1:13 pm

Despite judicial recognition of mental health as a state of general well-being, multiple courts deny abortion by citing the absence of mental illness.

379 fit-to-discharge patients stuck in mental hospitals for over 10 years, HC raises concern

October 31, 2023 2:49 pm

Review boards are created to help protect rights of mental health patients and examine if the cured patients are fit for rehabilitation.

K Sujatha Rao writes: Policy makers need to take mental health more seriously

January 13, 2023 9:33 am

Mental health is singularly handicapped because its lobbying power is the weakest.

'Mental Healthcare Act makes it mandatory for insurers to make provisions for medical insurance for treatment of mental illness'

November 02, 2022 7:27 am

The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, has been enacted since May 29, 2018.

Provide mental illness cover under health insurance products before October 31: IRDAI

October 19, 2022 11:58 pm

The Mental Health Act, 2017 says that every insurer will have to make provision for medical insurance for treatment of mental illness on the same basis as is available for treatment of physical illness

HC seeks Delhi government’s response on plea alleging non-implementation of mental health law in schools and colleges

August 02, 2021 12:37 pm

The petition seeks the diagnosis and assessment of mental health to be made mandatory in educational institutions.

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Mental healthcare: Here's why support groups are important

September 12, 2020 11:03 am

Mental health self-care options are very limited in India which people can come to know about after joining such groups, specifically ones for depression and anxiety, says the author.