'Deeply Distressing': SC Issues Guidelines To Curb Student Suicides Amid Alarming Rise In Cases

Amid rising student suicides in India, SC issues 15 guidelines for educational institutions

The Supreme Court of India highlighted that academic stress, exam pressure, and inadequate institutional support are driving many students to take their lives.

'Deeply Distressing': SC Issues Guidelines To Curb Student Suicides Amid Alarming Rise In Cases

The court also made it mandatory for the teaching and the non-teaching staff to undergo mental health training at least twice a year.

Deeply distressing: Supreme Court issues guidelines to curb student suicides

The guidelines call for measures such as mandatory mental health counseling, functional grievance redressal systems and regulatory oversight in all educational settings.

Supreme Court Lays Down 15 Guidelines To Safeguard Students' Mental Health

The Supreme Court on Friday issued comprehensive guidelines to protect the mental health of students in schools, colleges, and coaching centres.

SC issues pan-India guidelines to protect mental health of students in colleges & coaching centres

Justices Vikram Nath & Sandeep Mehta issued the guidelines, while hearing a petition by the father of a student who died by suicide in Andhra Pradesh, seeking a CBI probe.

SC lists norms to curb student suicides, protect mental health - The Tribune

The Supreme Court on Friday issued 15-point pan-India binding guidelines to deal with suicides by students in educational institutions and coaching centres as it highlighted “legislative and regulatory vacuum” and lack of a unified framework for prevention, besides rise in mental health issues among them.