Who is impacted?

India is home to millions of children who grow up in environments far more complex than what textbooks prepare them for.

Many children are raised in homes affected by emotional or physical abuse, alcohol or substance addiction, extreme control, fear, or neglect, bullying—at home or in school—and a lack of boundaries and emotional safety. Yet our education system does not teach children how to understand emotions, trauma from unexpected incidents, neurodiversity, or emotional abuse of different kinds—even though these realities shape their entire lives.

We teach children how to score marks and how to get jobs, but not how to understand themselves or others in a day to day life.

Indian education may focuses on learning skills to get the highest quality of job satisfaction but JOB or work is just one part of life, it is not our whole life. 

A child spends about 8 hours in school, but the environment they grow up in at home can be abusive, corrupt, alcohol-affected, or emotionally unsafe or living in denial and self centered beliefs of perfection.

No matter how good the school education is, a child raised without psychological safety cannot grow into a healthy adult or community member.

What is at stake?

Millions of adults in India are being diagnosed very late in life—in their 30s, 40s, or later—with Complex PTSD (CPTSD), Autism, ADHD, severe anxiety, and depression. By the time they understand what happened to them because of their childhood or home environment they grew up in, the damage is already deep—relationships broken, careers affected, self-worth and self-esteem destroyed.

This is not because these individuals are weak. It is because they were never given psychological awareness and emotional safety early in life.

Without understanding boundaries and emotional responsibility, the consequences show up later as toxic relationships and divorces, workplace harassment, road rage and traffic aggression, corruption and misuse of power dynamics, and abuse repeating across generations. These are not isolated issues. They are psychological literacy issues.

Why is now the time to act?

We request the introduction of age-appropriate (MANDATORY) psychologically centered Mental health and emotional education from Classes 1st to 10th as well in High schools in the NCERT syllabus, including basic understanding of 

emotional regulation and mental health;

neurodivergent vs neurotypical brains;

autism,

ADHD,

anxiety,

trauma-bonding (age-appropriate);

bullying and its long-term impact;

physical and verbal abuse at home and school;

addiction education age-appropriate (alcohol, substances, pornography); 

narcissism and emotional manipulation;

Healthy vs Weak boundaries—personal, emotional, and social.

This is not therapy. This is awareness and life literacy.

The results of this change will not be immediate. But within 5–10 years, when these children grow into adults, India will see reduced mental health crises, healthier families and workplaces, stronger emotional intelligence in leadership, better community behaviour and civic sense, and less abuse, manipulation, frauds and exploitation. This is nation-building at the psychological level.

Psychological -Mental health education is no longer a “luxury” or “Western concept.”

 It is a basic human requirement in a complex modern society. Children deserve to grow up aware, protected, and informed—not confused, gaslit, or broken and diagnosed decades later.

This is not about changing culture.

This is about protecting innocence and building healthy human minds.

We urge the Ministry of Education of India and NCERT to recognise psychological mental health education as essential and mandatory step in India’s future, by introducing structured, age-appropriate psychology centered mental health and emotional health educational content from Classes 1st–10th, train educators accordingly, and build a safer future for Indian children.

 We are not fixing anyone, we are just giving the right tools and resources to learn about a better lifestyle and mindset.

Please sign and share this petition.

For the children who don’t yet have words for what they are experiencing and witnessing in a day to day life.

For a healthier India—inside out.