"Mental Health and Normalcy Augmentation System” (MANAS) is a comprehensive and scalable digital wellness platform, aimed to strengthen mental well-being through digital medium with a national scope, initiated and funded by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) and endorsed by The Prime Minister's Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC), Government of India. MANAS was executed by NIMHANS Bengaluru, AFMC Pune and CDAC Bengaluru. The program aims to ‘reach the unreached’, through smart phones as well as linkages with Wellness Centers to reach ground-level Rurban population at large for dissemination of information about well-being, measuring vital parameters and developing mental wellness skills through learning modules.

The MANAS platform includes the MANAS mobile app, a dashboard, and web services. This comprehensive mental well-being platform is designed to host scientific and evidence-based indigenous mental health content. It also facilitates workflow management for curating and integrating third-party new content into the app while ensuring data security and privacy. Additionally, the platform features a visualization dashboard for content analysis, providing valuable insights into user engagement and content effectiveness. The MANAS app is available on both Android and Apple App stores, and supports English and Hindi languages. MANAS promoted mental wellbeing via. ManasMitra webinar series conducted in collaboration with stakeholders, nodal agencies and RuTAG members.

•    Self-evaluation and practices to ensure mental wellness for all Indians

•    Dissemination of government initiatives on mental health and wellbeing

•    User trails and field study of mental wellness researched contents designed by Psychologists, Practitioners and Research fellows

•    Usage of Mental wellbeing app by rurban wellness workers from National Mental Health Programme (NMHP), District mental health programme (DMHP) and Primary Health Care Centers (PHC)etc.

1.    MANAS ensures connectivity to the Rurban population of India through MANAS mobile app, MANAS platform and MANAS Mitra awareness programs.

2.    Bilingual (English and Hindi) support of mobile app.

3.    MANAS App supports both Android and iOS platforms.

4.    Self-evaluation of their own mental wellbeing by WHO’s scale.

5.    Third party plug and play architecture for seamless integration of scientifically researched wellness contents which encompasses mental wellness information, measures and interventions.

6.    Data security and privacy(anonymity) support in both data transit and rest.

7.    MANAS platform - work flow management for curating and inclusion of new contents into the app.

8.    MANAS platform is a comprehensive digital and scalable solution to host on public / private cloud platforms. 

9.    MANAS backend services deployed on the NIC cloud platform, Govt. of India as containers.

10.  MANAS Mitra webinars for promoting and dissemination of mental wellbeing.

•    MANAS android and iOS app- NodeJS, React native, loopback framework , MongoDB database

•    MANAS Dashboard – NodeJS, React JS, Loopback framework, MongoDB database

•   Android or iOS device

•   Web browser

•   Kubernetes platform for deployment

Name : Dr. R. C. Saritha

E-mail Id : rsaritha@cdac.in

Address : C-DAC Knowledge Park, No.1,Old Madras Road, Byappanahalli, Bangalore-560038