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India launches enhanced Tele-MANAS app with multilingual UI, chatbot, and emergency module
Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda announced the upgrade on World Mental Health Day 2025.
The expanded Tele-MANAS app — first released in late 2024 — now offers a multilingual interface, an in-app chatbot, and an emergency module to guide users through acute crises and connect them to local responders.
The announcement positions digital tools as a way to extend the programme's reach into rural districts where in-person specialist care is sparse, with the explicit caveat that the chatbot is a triage and information tool, not a substitute for clinical care.
Read the MoHFW announcement for the new feature set and rollout timing.
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