The Union Health Ministry launched Suicide Prevention

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The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced a National Suicide Prevention Strategy, the first of its kind in the country, with time - bound action plans and multi - sectoral collaborations to achieve reduction in suicide mortality by 10 % by 2030 . The strategy broadly seeks to establish effective surveillance mechanisms for suicide within the next three years, establish psychiatric outpatient departments that will provide suicide prevention services through the District Mental Health Programme in all districts within the next five years, and to integrate a mental well - being curriculum in all educational institutions within the next eight years . About Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Ministers responsible : Mansukh L . Mandaviya