CII’s Young Indians Bangalore Chapter Annual Day was held on 30 March 2012 in Bangalore. The theme for the Annual Day was “Importance of Healthy Living: Understanding and Tackling Effects of Mental Health on Productivity”. Depression is increasingly prevalent in our workforce. This impacts the individuals and the employees, since productivity also suffers. Therefore, recognizing and dealing with this has become extremely important. In the above context Yi Bangalore organized a program on mental health and depression “Importance of Healthy Living: Understanding and Tackling Effects of Mental Health on Productivity”.

The objective of that session was to increase awareness of problems, symptoms and solutions that are available to employees and employers to deal with this issue. Eminent speakers who attended the session included Dr Nandakumar Jairam, Chairman and Group Medical Director, Columbia Asia Hospitals, India ;Dr B R Madhukar, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, St. Martha's Hospital & Manasa Neuropsychiatric Hospital ; Mr Sebi Chacko, Head-HR South Asia, ThomsonReuters; Dr Chetana V, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynecologist, Cauvery Medical Center and Ms Sandhya Fernandez, Clinical Psychologist, Cadabam's Mind Talk & Lecturer, Christ University