NEW DELHI: On a day Parliament passed the Mental Healthcare Bill, Union Health Minister J P Nadda today thanked Congress leader Shashi Tharoor for his "valuable" suggestions made during an earlier discussion on the legislation in the Lok Sabha Making a emotional speech during the discussion on the Bill in Lok Sabha on March 24, Tharoor had said he has lived with a victim of mental illness and knows the pain the person goes through while giving a host of suggestions. "Thank you for valuable suggestions @ShashiTharoor Ji. "Suicide is an issue," he had said, adding "there are so many things attached to this and one is unemployment. There is a need to make it mandatory for every educational institution to have counsellors and "this is the need of the hour," he had said. "There are number of good things in the bill but there are also number of things out....Psychotherapists, psychoanalysts are not included in the bill.

Source: Economic Times March 27, 2017 16:30 UTC