Union Budget to upgrade Ranchi mental health institute as regional apex institute

Ranchi, Feb. 1 -- union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget proposal to upgrade the National Mental Health Institute in Ranchi as a regional apex insititution, is expected to substantially strengthen the mental healthcare infrastructure, research and professional training in eastern India.

She said in her budget speech in parliament today, "There are no national institutes for mental healthcare in north India. We will therefore set up a NIMHANS-2 and also upgrade National Mental Health Institutes in Ranchi and Tezpur as Regional Apex Institutions."The proposal marks the most direct and significant allocation for Jharkhand in this year's Budget.

Ranchi already houses the Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), and the new apex stat...