An Act to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfill the rights of such persons during delivery of mental healthcare and services and for matters connected therewith or incidental there to.

WHEREAS the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol was adopted on the 13^th December, 2006 at United Nations Headquarters in New York and came into force on the 3^rd May, 2008;

AND WHEREAS India has signed and ratified the said Convention on the 1^st day of October, 2007;

AND WHEREAS it is necessary to align and harmonise the existing laws with the said Convention. BE it enacted by Parliament in the 68^th Year of the Republic of India