Corporate environment hardest to treat: Neerja Birla on mental health

Why did Birla pick mental health as a focus area? National statistics drove the choice

Launched in 2016, MPower, which started as a paediatric counselling centre in Mumbai, shifted its focus to include adults, and in the past three and a half years has expanded to open centres in Bengaluru, Goa and Pilani along with outreach programmes in New Delhi and Pune. 

In addition, the number of patients it treats has grown over ten times from 200 in year one to almost 2,500, says MPower’s founder Neerja Birla. She had started MPower with around Rs 10 crore in funding from the Aditya Birla Education Trust and built a 33-member team. Neerja Birla's husband is Kumar