Cabinet Approves Est. of National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation in Sehore District (Download PDF)

(November 10, 2018)

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Union Cabinet has remodified its earlier decision to establish of National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation (NIMHR) in Sehore (Bhopal-Sehore highway) Madhya Pradesh. NIMHR will be 1^st of its kind in country in area of mental health rehabilitation.

NIMHR

• It will be established as society under Societies Registration Act, 1860.

• It will function under Department of Empowerment of Persons w/Disabilities.

• Objective is to provide rehabilitation services to persons w/mental illness, capacity development in field of mental health rehabilitation, policy framing & advanced research in mental health rehabilitation.

• It will have 9 departments & centres.

• It will conduct 12 courses to offer diploma, certificate, graduate, post graduate, M. Phil. degrees in field of mental health rehabilitation.

Benefits of NIMHR

• It will serve as institution of excellence for capacity building in human resource & research in area of mental health rehabilitation.

• It will be recommending body suggesting models & protocols for effective rehabilitation of persons w/mental illness.

- Published/Last Modified on: November 10, 2018

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