the country account for a large proportion (18,307) of the total mental health beds available in the country. mental hospitals in india include: lokopriya gopinath bordoloi regional institute of mental health (lgbrimh) tezpur, 1876 central institute of psychiatry (cip) ranchi, 1918 ranchi institute of neuro-psychiatry & allied sciences (rinpas) ranchi, 1925 institute of psychiatry (iop) goa, 1957 psychiatric diseases hospital (pdh) jammu, 1964 institute of human behaviour and allied sciences (ihbas) delhi, 1966 national institute of mental health and neurosciences (nimhans) bangalore, 1925 prevalence the national mental health survey of india in 2016 found that "1 in 20 people in india suffer from depression", "productive age groups are affected most", "economic burden of mental disorders is huge" and that the treatment gap varies between 70% and 92%. two different meta-analysis in 1998 and 2000 reported a psychiatric morbidity of 58.2 and 73 per 1000 general population respectively. the burden of mental health problems in india is estimated to be 2,443 dalys (disability-adjusted life years) per 100,000 population. according to a study published in lancet in 2019, "one in seven indians were affected by mental disorders of varying severity in 2017 substantial variations exist between states in the burden from different mental disorders and in their trends over time." india reported that a total of 296,438 indian farmers committing suicide between 1995 and 2015. the indian armed forces lose 100 soldiers every year due to suicides and fratricides. in 2020 more business people committed suicide than farmers. awareness and portrayal deepika padukone is the brand ambassador for the indian psychiatric society and an advocate of mental healthcare. the world economic forum presented her with the crystal award in 2020 for creating awareness on mental health. padukone has publicly spoken about her personal experience of overcoming depression. in the run up to the 2019 indian general election, the indian psychiatry society asked politicians not to use the word 'mental' or similar terms such as "mental instability", "mad" or "send them to a mental hospital" when talking about their opponents, and informed the election commission of india of the same. mental illness is portrayed in most of indian cinema with excessive dramatization, minimal sensitivity or scientific credibility, to the extent that psychiatric treatments become tools of punishment and causes of insanity— funtoosh, pagla kahin ka, sholay, khalnayak, baazigar, kaun, anjaana anjaani and no entry. on the other hand, films such as tamasha and taare zameen par stand out in this context. the portrayal of depression is also lacking of scientific temper. developing scientific temper among the citizens is a fundamental duty prescribed in article 51a(h) of the indian constitution.