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Introduction

School mental health program (SMH) Programme has proven efficacy in the holistic growth of children. It strengthens abilities, such as resilience and stress tolerance that are needed for the overall growth of children. Furthermore, it helps children with psychological problems at the critical juncture so that their formative years are not affected by the presence of these problems. Moreover, a few activities that can be part of SMH Programme, such as bully control and gatekeepers training for suicide prevention, may prevent many undesirable happenings, for example, extreme violence and suicide among school children. However, SMH Programme is badly neglected in India. Barring a few sporadic activities, there is no comprehensive SMH Programme in India.

Why it is neglected in India?

SMH Programme is badly neglected. There is no comprehensive SMHP that covers all school children (from rural and urban areas) across the country. A few sporadic activities that occur are praiseworthy; however, they lack a long-term approach. Major reasons for such neglect of SMH Programme in India could be lack of a steering body, poor intersectional coordination, and minimal stakeholders' involvement. In India there is lack of a comprehensive nationwide program with long-term outlook having the involvement of all the stakeholders and strong intersectional coordination. Over the years, whatever little has been done in the field of SMH Programme in India, amply reflects that there is extremely poor intersectional coordination and stakeholders' involvement. Any effort, such as inclusion of life-skills training module in curriculum by the school boards, cannot be successful unless all the stakeholders wholeheartedly try in unison for its implementation. Otherwise, it remains just a part of curriculum instead of becoming part of life.

The Needed Steps

We need to ensure that SMH Programme is delivered in a way that it takes care of the resource constraints as far as possible. It is important that the school leaders and teachers are communicated that a PPEI approach to promotion of mental health in school is essentially revamping and tuning the existing system in a manner that it becomes more conducive to support the wellbeing of school as a community. It may need some extra resources; nevertheless, many important aspects of a wellbeing promoting school system, such as, healthy and open communication, warm relationship among students (and between staff and students), a cohesive environment, no criticality, and life-skills promoting discussions and activities fundamentally need proactive efforts from teachers, schools administration, parents and students.