Mental health in focus as Sitharaman announces NIMHANS 2.0 for north India

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....ental health in focus as Sitharaman announces NIMHANS 2.0 for north India<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 1-2-2026<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) Emphasising mental health, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sit....

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....haraman on Sunday announced the establishment of a second National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences or NIMHANS in north India. The first NIMHANS is located in Bengaluru. Presenting the ....

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....Union Budget 2026-27 in Parliament, Sitharaman also said the national mental health institutes in Ranchi (Jharkhand) and Tezpur (Assam) will also be upgraded as regional apex institutions. “There ....

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....are no national institutes for mental healthcare in north India. We will, therefore, set up a NIMHANS-2 and also upgrade the national mental health institutes in Ranchi and Tezpur as regional apex ins....

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....titutions,” Sitharaman said in her Budget speech. Noting that emergencies expose families, particularly the poor and the vulnerable, to unexpected expenditure, she said, “We will strengthen and i....

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....ncrease these capacities by 50 per cent in district hospitals by establishing emergency and trauma care centres.” PTI PLB ARI<BR> News - Press release - PIB....