UT holds meeting to reconsider security deposit for group home admissions
Chandigarh: In the wake of Punjab and Haryana High Court directions, the Chandigarh administration has called a meeting of the governing body of the UTTHAAN Society of the group home in Sector 31, on June 13.
The governing body meeting, to be chaired by the UT chief secretary, will address the issue of the exorbitant security deposit.
Terming the security deposit of Rs 20 lakh for admission to the group home for mental health patients as "exorbitant," the Punjab and Haryana high court, on May 19, directed the Chandigarh administration to reconsider it. The bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sumeet Goel instructed the administration to "apply its mind on the aspect of the quantum of security amount of Rs 20 lakh, which deprives admission into the said mental illness home even to deserving mental health patients merely because of a paucity of funds.
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The court observed, "After hearing learned counsel for the rival parties, especially on the question of the quantum of security deposit of Rs 20 lakh required for admission of mental health patients in Group Utthaan Society and testing the same on the anvil of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, particularly sections 18, 19, 20, and 21 of the Act, mandating every person suffering from mental illness to be treated with dignity, reasonableness, and without any discrimination, the quantum of security deposit of Rs 20 lakh is exorbitant.
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The court directed the governing body to hold an emergent meeting to reconsider the aspect of the deposit of Rs 20 lakh as security, which is unaffordable for several genuine mental health patients.
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