Mental Health in India: The Recent SC Guidelines in respect of Educational Institutions
Mental health is crucial and health is seen by World Health Organization as including mental health. Increasing suicides in the country is disturbing and 7.6 % of suicides is that of students. This is despite a legal framework in India for mental health. The object of this paper is to study the recent Supreme Court of India’s (SC) comprehensive guidelines to address mental health concerns in educational institutions across India in Sukdeb Saha v. State of Andhra Pradesh (2025 SCC OnLine SC 1515) in the background of the Mental Health Care Act, 2017. The attempt is to analyse the guidelines and their implications on the educational institutions to facilitate the understanding of the guidelines and their compliance by the educational institutions for whom it is intended.
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