Notes on suicide prevention policy and practice in India. We cite primary sources, and we say when a number will not carry the weight people put on it.
A Supreme Court judgment in July 2025 put a uniform mental health policy for Indian higher education on a legal footing. The draft guidelines that followed name gatekeeper training as something institutions should provide.
The figure gets quoted constantly and interpreted loosely. Here is what it actually counts, and the three claims it does not support.
Buying training seats one at a time does not scale past a few hundred people. Certifying instructors inside the institution does. Here is how that worked across a state.
