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cswr-1866	Parekh, Amrita	Reaching the Unreachable: The Promise of Telepsychiatry in India	2019	7	.pdf	application/pdf	4613	259	46	In an effort to address the issue of limited access to mental health care, the Indian government created the National Mental Health Programme in 1982 and the District Mental Health Programme in 1996, mandating that every district hospital in India have at least one psychiatrist (Thara, John & Rao, 2008). Telepsychiatry, defined as “the use of information and communication technology to provide or support psychiatric services across distances,” allows for a unique opportunity to reach the millions of people living in rural India who, like Maya, would otherwise have limited or no access to mental health care (Malhotra et al., 2013, pg. 3).	cache/cswr-1866.pdf	txt/cswr-1866.txt