The Central Government announced National Tele Mental Health Program (NTMHP) in the Union Budget 2022 – 23 with the objective to better the access to quality mental health counselling and care services across the country.
The Tele-MANAS was launched on World Mental Health Day virtually by Sh. Thawar Chand Gehlot, Hon’ble Governor of Karnataka at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru.
The 24/7 mental health services aim to provide universal access to affordable, equitable and quality mental health care through tele-services under the National Mental Health Programme (NMHP).
The Tele-MANAS services can be availed by calling toll-free numbers 14416 and 1-800-891-4416. The callers can select the language of their choice for availing of services.
Received over 2,00,000 calls from various parts of the nation since the launch of this toll-free service
Of the two lakh calls, 59.6% were male callers, and 40% were female callers
Oriental white backed vulture
The white-rumped vulture is an Old World vulture native to South and Southeast Asia.
It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2000, as the population severely declined
In 2020, eight critically endangered oriental white-backed captive-bred vultures were released into the wild for the first time in India from the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre in Pinjore, Haryana.
After the release from Pinjore, 31 oriental white-backed vultures were released in batches in West Bengal in 2021
The BNHS and Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB) have been managing four Jatayu conservation breeding centres across the country in partnership with the State governments of Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, and Assam.
Through this conservation breeding programme, the BNHS-RSPB has bred more than 700 birds in captivity since 2004.
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