By IANS,
New Delhi : India has doubled its financial allocation for increasing awareness about mental health and improving existing infrastructure at the district hospital level, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Friday.
Azad informed the Lok Sabha during question hour that the central government was increasing mental health allocation for each district from Rs.1.2 crore per annum (Rs.12 million) to Rs.2.5 crore (Rs.25 million) per annum.
He said the government was serious about mental health and the revised allocation would take care of both awareness and infrastructure development in this field.