The Mental Healthcare bill was approved recently by Parliament.
What does the Act guarantee?
Stigmatising a mentally ill person and denying him or her necessary treatment will be illegal according to the act.
The act talks about special provision where public institutions such as universities are urged to treat mental health as a valuable public good in its own right.
What are the issue in Higher education?
Mental health takes a back seat even within something as significant as a doctoral programme.
PhDs demand long-standing commitment on the part of the students and their beloved.
Over five-plus years, students learn to grapple with hypotheses, narrative frameworks, and research methods.
This stress might cause social regression which may affect doctoral candidates.
Apart from this there exists social and caste discrimination inside campus which further adds fuel to the stress level.
Thus the new Act talks about the necessity of teacher student interaction which might help reduce the stress level.
University spaces should be an area free from social stigma, unnecessary prejudices and should have freedom to express and believe in oneself.
