SHILLONG, Nov 29: The state Cabinet on Tuesday approved the Meghalaya Mental Health and Social Care Policy.
Addressing media persons, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said this is a very important policy and a subject which has not been given much importance in the past.
Meghalaya is the 3rd State in India to have come out with a policy for Mental Health & Social Care.
This policy will ensure proper attention to mental health especially for children, adolescents and youth.@narendramodi @mansukhmandviya @dpradhanbjp
— Conrad Sangma (@SangmaConrad) November 29, 2022
“As a state and as a government, we strongly feel that mental health issues are usually neglected and hence comprehensive policy is required to address this issue…Therefore, the policy was approved today by the cabinet,” he said.
Stating that Meghalaya is the third state in the country to come up with a mental health policy, the CM said, “I am sure this particular policy will ensure that proper attention should be given to mental health especially when it comes to young children, adolescence, teenagers and of course this is a subject which is very vast and covers different subject of individual lives and different aspects that lead to issues of mental health.”
Meanwhile, the cabinet has also approved the amendment of the Meghalaya Victim Compensation Scheme, 2019.
The amendment was made as per the national policy in terms of the different necessary additions & criteria, including the increase of compensations etc as approved by the national policy.
— Conrad Sangma (@SangmaConrad) November 29, 2022
“This is basically victims meaning women or girl child or male child who has suffered injuries caused by reasons of the act of sexual harassment… There were certain amendments to be made as per the national policies in terms of different aspects to be added to it in different levels of compensation that was increased. Those were approved as per national average and national policy,” the CM said.
