MENTAL-HEALTH DIGITAL PLATFORM MANAS LAUNCHED
The Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, Prof. K Vijay Raghavan launched a mobile app called “MANAS” to cater mental well-being of citizens on scalable, secure and digital platforms.
MANAS stands for Mental Health and Normalcy Augmentation System.
MANAS is an initiative of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.
It has been jointly executed by NIMHANS Bengaluru, AFMC Pune and C-DAC Bengaluru.
The app MANAS is developed under the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC), to promote wellbeing across age groups.