Creating awareness about mental health and illness and reducing stigma associated with mental illness

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Statutory text

(1) The appropriate Government shall take all measures to promote public awareness about mental health and illness.
(2) The measures to be taken by the appropriate Government under sub-section (1) shall include—
- (a) promoting an understanding of the causes of mental illness and fighting stigma associated with it;
- (b) promoting the inclusion of information on mental health in the school curriculum;
- (c) providing information about the rights of persons with mental illness;
- (d) encouraging the media to report on mental illness in a responsible manner and to sensitise the public about the need to protect the rights of persons with mental illness;
- (e) conducting programmes for sensitisation of the police and other law enforcement agencies about the rights of persons with mental illness and the need to handle such persons with compassion and dignity;
- (f) providing for such other measures as may be prescribed.

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