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The National Tele Mental Health Programme was announced in the Union Budget 2022-23 with the objective “to better the access to quality mental health counselling and care services”. NIMHANS was identified as the nodal centre and International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIITB) was identified to provide technology support. This program is also being referred to as “Tele-Manas”.

This section of website is focused on publishing RFPs, tenders, open-positions and other updates related to the technology track work being done by IIITB team, for National Tele Mental Health Programme.

Prof. T K Srikanth

Principal Investigator

Divya Raj

Solution Advisor

Murali Kunda

Program Manager

Archana Kartik

Project Manager

Swapnil Shrivastava

System Architect

Sridhar Jammalamadaka

Platform and Integration Architect

Mallikarjun Dodmani

Technology Lead

Vandhana Venkatesan

Project & Operations Lead

Jhumur Dey

Project Lead

Lalitha Vikas

Senior Application Programmer

Prashant Singh

Application Programmer

Chaithra PM

Application Developer

Amit Saha

Operations Associate

Anita Jairam

Application Programmer

Prashanth Prathamashetti

Application Programmer

Nikita Holey

Technical Associate

Nikita Naik

Data Analyst

Amritansh Thakur

Business Analyst

Rohan Raj

Application Programmer

Vinayak Jha

Research Associate

RFPs for the “Tele-Manas” program:

Status Category: CLOSEDBelow section has details of RFP(s) which are currentlyactive. Details will be updated from time to time.. 

1. RFP for “Software Development and Platform Support Services for National Tele-Mental Health Initiative”, RFP reference no. IIITB/EHRC/2022/IT-01, Date: 25-Oct-2022. Click here to download the RFP document.
This RFP is being issued by IIITB to solicit bids from competent vendors for Software Development and Platform Support Services for National Tele-Mental Health Program (also being called as Tele MANAS Program)

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Status Category: CLOSED. Below section has details of RFP(s) floated earlier, which are closed now. 

1. RFP for “IVR Platform for National Tele-Mental Health Initiative”, RFP reference no. IIITB/EHRC/2022/IVR-01, Date: 27-Jul-2022. Click here to download the RFP document.

  • Click here to view the Addendum-Registration for Pre-bid meeting. , Addendum dated 01-08-2022.
  • Click here to view the Corrigendum-1, Corrigendum dated 11-08-2022.
  • Click here to view the Corrigendum-2, Corrigendum dated 16-08-2022.
    Last Date and Time for Bid Submission is extended to 22-08-22. Other details in the Corrigendum document.
  • Click here to view the Corrigendum-3, Corrigendum dated 20-08-2022.
  • Vendor shortlisted for Commercial Bid Evaluation: Drishti-Soft Solutions Private Ltd. Commercial Bid to be opened on 30-Aug-2022. Schedule and meeting link will be communicated to bidder over e-mail.
  • Based upon the qualifying and respective evaluations (Technical and Financial), the evaluation committee has recommended "Drishti-Soft Solutions Private Ltd" for "Implementation and Support for an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System". Administrative action will be issued at the earliest as per Government norms.

Interested qualified and motivated individuals can send resume at ehrc@iiitb.ac.in for the following open positions, with the subject-line as: "Application for  for Tele-MANAS Project - (role as applicable)

E-Health Research Center at IIITB, in collaboration with NIMHANS, is seeking applications from qualified candidates for leading the cyber security efforts and initiatives for the TeleMANAS project at IIITB/NIMHANS as well as for other IT initiatives at NIMHANS

1) Role: Chief Information Security Officer

Job Description:

The key responsibilities of the role are to:

  • define and establish Information Security Policies for the identified initiatives
  • plan, direct, monitor and ensure compliance with security and data protection regulations
  • coordinate with the project teams and technology vendors to enable implementation of security policies
  • report regularly to the management of the organizations on the status of the security initiatives
  • coordinate with CERT-in and other agencies such as NCIIPC

Both full-time or part-time engagements can be considered.

Qualifications:

  • BE/BTech in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/IT or equivalent
  • Professional Certification or post-graduate degree in information security/Information systems or equivalent
  • 10 years or more experience in managing IT systems of organizations, with at least 4 years of experience in IT systems for hospitals or similar healthcare infrastructure.
  • Ability to work across teams and organizations

Location: Bangalore

Salary: Based on qualifications, experience and mode of engagement

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2) Role: Technology Program Head

Job Description:

  1. Providing IT program leadership covering bottomline responsibility for the national platform implementation leveraging the IIITB team and other technology vendor teams, meeting the program requirements with respect to cost, time and quality thresholds
  2. Outlining IT program level strategy and execution approach towards implementation by all teams
  3. Identifying critical risks and dependencies, defining mitigation strategies and flagging those to all other stakeholders as needed
  4. Discussions and brainstorming with key stakeholders towards aligning the technology track with the overall program across the hub and the facilities
  5. Selection of vendors as needed and overseeing vendor performances.
  6. Staffing and managing the internal teams
  7. Reviewing the delivery process, solution architecture and design, quality management and release process
  8. Regular tracking of progress across developments teams and investigating into concern areas to define corrective measures needed

Qualifications and Skill-sets:
Essential qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or any engineering degree or any MBA degree supported with relevant technical background
  • Minimum of overall 15 years of experience, minimum of 10 years of IT industry experience
  • Experience in IT program/project management, vendor management
  • Good communication skills, team management skills, ability to work in collaborative setups

Desirable qualifications

  • Any prior experience in Healthcare domain, government programs and helpline or call centre setups
  • PMP Certification

Location: Bangalore

Salary: To be decided based on experience and role fitment

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3) Role: Solution Architect

Job Description

  1. Defining the overall platform Architecture and taking bottom line responsibility for the technology solution for the initiative including software, hardware and usability aspects for the hub and the facilities
  2. Devising strategies to implement the plan for the entire system architecture including components such as user interface, middleware, infrastructure and communication tools
  3. Ensuring alignment of platform architecture and design of the components with national health stack, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) frameworks, compliance with relevant data privacy and data security guidelines
  4. Leveraging all other technical roles of the programme towards execution of devised strategies with respect to technical architecture and design
  5. Baselining the technology stack to be used and the frameworks to be used as a part of the implementation
  6. Outlining the design for the interfaces of Tele-MANAS needed for integration with ABDM, E-Manas, E-Sanjeevani and other systems
  7. Reviewing and baselining the design for key solution components to be created as a part of the platform across teams
  8. Establishing best practices towards ease of maintenance and deployments, flexibility

Qualifications and Skill-sets:

Essential qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or any engineering degree supported with relevant technical background
  • Hands-on full-stack programming experience in Java based mobile-app and web-technologies covering Angular, ReactNative and other technologies
  • 8-15 years of technical experience, including architecture, design and implementation of web applications and platforms

Desirable qualifications

  • Certifications that add significance to the role like Certified Technical Architect (CTA), TOGAF etc.
  • Any prior experience in call centre or IVR setups
  • Any prior experience in healthcare IT projects

Location: Bangalore

Salary: To be decided based on experience and role fitment

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4) Role: Technology Lead

Job Description:

  1. Understanding the scope and requirements of modules, overall platform architecture, frameworks and guidelines defined for the project
  2. Drafting detail design for the modules and flows
  3. Ensuring alignment of design of the platform components with national health stack and Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) framework, and compliance with relevant data privacy and data security guidelines
  4. Designing and developing interfaces for exchange of data with other healthcare organizations leveraging ABDM framework and aligning with standards and guidelines for Electronic Healthcare (EHR) data exchange
  5. Contributing to architecture reviews and platform optimization
  6. Giving a design walkthrough to the team’s developers, overseeing development work and doing code reviews
  7. Creation of deployment scripts and executing product releases
  8. Doing proof of concepts, trying new technology solutions, utilities etc

Qualifications and Skill-sets:

Essential qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or any engineering degree supported with relevant technical background
  • Hands-on programming experience in Java, web and mobile-app technologies covering Angular, ReactNative, RDBMS, linux, APIs, security, encryption etc
  • 6 to 8 years of hands-on technical experience, covering design, and development of web applications and platforms

Location: Bangalore

Salary: To be decided based on experience and role fitment

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5) Role: Application Programmer

Job Description:

  1. Programming in full-stack technologies and developing web and mobile based healthcare applications meeting functional and non-functional requirements for the national level platform
  2. Ensuring alignment with recommended health stacks and frameworks, Electronic Health Records formats and data exchange standards, identity management frameworks, compliance with guidelines w.r.t data privacy, data security
  3. Applying best practices and industry specific standards for implementing, testing and maintaining the application, aligning with UX-UI design
  4. Drafting and maintaining documentation for development and testing of various layers (UI, functional, back-end)
  5. Supporting and collaborating with various teams for the integration testing
  6. Executing other tasks related to migration, enhancements and software/hardware upgrade
  7. Guiding junior programmers and interns with their development and testing efforts

Qualifications and Skill-sets:

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related streams, or any engineering degree supported with relevant technical background
  • Hands-on programming experience in Java, web and mobile-app technologies covering Angular, ReactNative, RDBMS, APIs, Postgres, platform security, encryption etc
  • 2 to 6 yrs of hands-on technical experience, covering design, development and testing of web applications and platforms

Location: Bangalore

Salary: To be decided based on experience and role fitment

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6) Role: Data Analyst/Research Associate

Job Description:

  • Collecting, organizing, analysing and interpreting large scale public health data to help colleagues and clients use it to make decisions.
  • Data visualization and presentation
  • Data mining and warehousing
  • Analysing Big data
  • Predictive modelling, pattern analysis, regression analysis 

Qualifications and Skill-sets: 

  1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or any Engineering degree
  2. A post-graduate degree in data analysis OR hands-on industry experience in multiple data analytics projects

Location: Bangalore

Salary: To be decided based on experience and role fitment