{"id":997071,"date":"2026-03-09T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997071"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:23:52","slug":"instead-of-ban-nimhans-calls-for-curbs-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/09\/instead-of-ban-nimhans-calls-for-curbs-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Instead of ban, Nimhans calls for curbs on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: While the government is yet to present a standard operating procedure (SOP) or roadmap to implement a ban of social media for children under 16 years, psychologists and psychiatrists from Nimhans have highlighted a few good practices from other countries on the use of social media by children instead of a complete ban. <\/p>\n<p>The research paper &#8212; Policies and Public Health Initiatives to Mitigate the Mental Health Impact of Internet Use Among Children and Adolescents, was published recently in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry. The paper, co-authored by Dr Ashwini Tadpatrikar and Dr Manoj Sharma of NIMHANS advised against a blanket ban of social media for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: While the government is yet to present a standard operating procedure (SOP) or roadmap to implement a ban of social media for children under 16 years, psychologists and psychiatrists from Nimhans have highlighted a few good practices from other countries on the use of social media by children instead of a complete ban. The research paper &#8212; Policies and Public Health Initiatives to Mitigate the Mental Health Impact of Internet Use Among Children and Adolescents, was published recently in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry. The paper, co-authored by Dr Ashwini Tadpatrikar and Dr Manoj Sharma of NIMHANS advised against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}