The Supreme Court on Monday (October 27) directed all states and Union Territories to inform it within eight weeks about the steps taken to implement its guidelines on addressing mental health issues and student suicides in educational institutions.

A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta also granted the Centre the same eight-week period to file a detailed compliance affidavit outlining the measures undertaken so far.

The direction came during the hearing of a matter concerning compliance with the apex court’s July 25 judgment, in which it had issued a set of 15 binding guidelines to tackle the growing mental health crisis among students.

In that ruling, the court had observed that India suffers from a “legislative and regulatory vacuum” on student suicide prevention and ment

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