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The National Mental Health Program (NMHP) in India was launched in 1982 and aimed at providing minimum mental health care to maximum through integration of mental health services within the existing health care system. This ambitious Programme failed to achieve any of its targets over the subsequent decades. In early 2001, the NMHP was radically revamped. It was re- launched as part of the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2002–07) and the budgetary allocation was increased more than 7-fold. However lack of trained professionals and administrative structures have been responsible for the inability of the program to take off.