Overview
- The workshop, held Aug. 30–31, brought together institutional leaders, faculty, counsellors and mental-health experts to focus on student wellbeing and resilience.
- The Department of Higher Education ran the event under the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme to build capacity in the Central and West region.
- Participants came from higher-education institutions in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh and worked through practical exercises and group planning.
- Sessions covered early identification of distress, peer mentoring, learning disabilities, substance-use prevention and improvements to hostel and mentoring ecosystems.
- The programme concluded with institutions producing wellbeing indicators, recommendations and action plans, with follow-up and campus-level implementation expected next but no impact data yet reported.