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Haryana runs two parallel, mandatory registration tracks for any de-addiction centre, plus a third if you plan to store or dispense controlled substances, and a fourth only if you want government grant funding instead of running privately. Missing any one of them is the single biggest reason centres get shut down or lose their licence.
This is Haryana's own dedicated statute, notified under the NDPS Act, 1985, and it predates the Mental Healthcare Act by seven years. Under these Rules, a de-addiction centre cannot legally operate in Haryana without a licence issued under Rule 6. A district-level oversight committee is constituted under Rule 8, giving Haryana a two-tier structure: a state-level licensing authority and district-level monitoring.
In practice, this is the licence that shows up on every centre's paperwork, the "Licence valid upto" date you'll see on the government's own published directory of centres. Licences run for a fixed validity period and must be renewed; the current directory shows renewal dates spread out to as far as 2028 for centres in good standing, and "Renewal U/P" (under process) or "Provisional" status for centres still working through the process.
Separate from the 2010 Rules, any centre offering inpatient or residential care also needs to register as a Mental Health Establishment with the Haryana State Mental Health Authority (SMHA), which functions under the Health Department, Haryana (not the Directorate of Social Justice and Empowerment, which handles the funding side).
Haryana's own Form B, "Application for Grant of Provisional Registration / Renewal of Provisional Registration of a Mental Health Establishment," addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, Haryana SMHA, requires:
Name, age, and professional experience in psychiatry.
Details of any existing licence: issuing authority and date.
Number of rooms, number of beds, and which facilities are offered: outpatient, emergency, inpatient, occupational/recreational, ECT, X-ray, psychological testing, investigation and laboratory, treatment facilities.
Number of doctors, nurses, attendants, and others.
Paid by bank draft.
To abide by the Authority's rules and regulations.
All official, all free to download: Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 (full text); Mental Healthcare (Rights of Persons with Mental Illness) Rules, 2018; Mental Healthcare (Central Mental Health Authority) Regulations, 2020; Central Mental Health Authority and Mental Health Review Board Rules, 2018; Mental Healthcare SMHA Rules (the base state rules); Mental Healthcare SMHA Rules 2026 (the newest update); SMHA official and non-official members' notifications; and Form B, the registration application itself.
Separate again from both the above, Haryana requires general clinical establishments, including nursing homes and hospitals, to register under the Clinical Establishment Act as adopted by the state. This is the baseline registration any inpatient healthcare facility needs regardless of specialty, and it's tracked on its own dedicated page on the Haryana Health Department's site. Expect this to run in parallel with, not instead of, Tracks 1 and 2.
If your plan is to run an NGO-funded centre rather than a purely private one, the relevant office is the Directorate of Social Justice and Empowerment, Haryana, which administers:
The Scheme for Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance (Drug) Abuse, a state programme with its own budget lines.
A 100% centrally sponsored scheme (Rs 200 lakh released as central assistance for 2022-23) under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, funding IRCA-style centres, CPLIs and ODICs.
Constituted with Rs 3.25 crore issued in 2020-21, with sanctioned posts at headquarters (10) and in every district (6 each).
Infrastructure norms for Divisional-level 50-bed Model Drug De-addiction-cum-Rehabilitation Centres and District-level 30-bed Model centres, plus a proposal for Model Prison Drug De-addiction Centres at Rohtak and Hisar.
This is a completely different application track from Tracks 1 to 3, aimed at NGOs and voluntary organisations, not a substitute for the licences above. A grant-funded centre still needs its Rule 6 licence and SMHA registration.
Note: this state-level scheme is distinct from applying directly to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment's national NAPDDR portal for an IRCA, DDAC, CPLI or ODIC grant; both routes exist and are worth checking, since eligibility and paperwork differ slightly.
Haryana's Directorate of Social Justice and Empowerment publishes a full district-wise directory of every licensed Drug De-addiction Centre, Counseling-cum-Rehabilitation Centre, and Psychiatric Nursing Home in the state, current to March 2025, including the organisation's name and address, licence expiry date, in-charge's name, and contact number. It's a genuinely useful document, both to see what "a properly licensed centre" looks like on paper and to check whether a specific facility is actually registered.
Districts with the largest concentration of licensed centres (per the same directory): Sirsa (20 total, including 17 Drug De-addiction Centres alone), Ambala (16), Kurukshetra (16), Kaithal (15), Panchkula (15), Sonipat (10). Several districts, such as Nuh, Narnaul and Rewari, show only a single licensed centre, typically the district civil hospital itself.
The full current directory (linked below) is the single most useful primary-source document for anyone building a business plan in this space, since it shows real licence expiry dates, contact persons, and the actual density of competition by district.
The Sirsa centre's closure from July 2012 to September 2013 was directly attributed to "non-receipt of licence under the Haryana De-addiction Rules, 2010."
Documented in Punjab and Haryana High Court proceedings covering the Ambala, Rewari and Kaithal centres, where staff went unpaid for months and a centre was closed outright for want of funds.
The trigger for the FDA's Fatehabad inspection, and a recurring theme across the Punjab-Haryana region (Punjab suspended licences over substandard buprenorphine-naloxone in 2025 for the same underlying reason).
Public reporting has referenced Haryana revoking licences in batches, around 33 centres in one review cycle, for regulatory violations, alongside routine inspection of medical stores for unauthorised sale of Schedule H and X drugs.
A licence under Rule 6 of the Haryana De-addiction Centres Rules, 2010, notified under the NDPS Act, 1985, issued by the Health Department, Haryana through the district Civil Surgeon. No de-addiction centre, government or private, can legally operate in Haryana without it.
Yes, for any centre offering inpatient or residential care. This runs through the Haryana State Mental Health Authority using Form B, a completely separate application from the Rule 6 licence, addressed to the CEO, Haryana SMHA, with an application fee by bank draft.
160 in total per the government's own directory current to March 2025: 30 government and 130 private/voluntary Drug De-addiction Centres, 26 Counseling-cum-Rehabilitation Centres, and 4 Psychiatric Nursing Homes. Sirsa, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Panchkula have the largest concentrations.
A standalone Drug De-Addiction Centre, a Counseling-cum-Rehabilitation Centre (longer-stay, less medically intensive), or a Psychiatric Nursing Home that also treats substance use disorder. Each has a different practical bar for staffing and infrastructure.
The most common causes are failure to hold a valid Rule 6 licence, funding and payroll collapse at grant-funded centres, drug storage and dispensing irregularities caught by FDA inspection, and batch revocations for regulatory violations, around 33 centres in one review cycle.
Yes. The Directorate of Social Justice and Empowerment, Haryana publishes a full district-wise directory including organisation name and address, licence expiry date, in-charge's name, and contact number, current to March 2025.
Yes. Haryana's Health Department published new "Mental Healthcare SMHA Rules 2026" in May 2026, alongside the standing central MHCA rules. Check this document specifically rather than relying on older 2018-era rules, since state authorities update procedures without much public notice.
Yes, through the Directorate of Social Justice and Empowerment's state scheme and the national NAPDDR route, which are two distinct application tracks worth checking separately. A grant-funded centre still needs its Rule 6 licence and SMHA registration; grant funding is not a substitute for either.
Registration gets you the licence. The NDPS dispensing log, SMHA forms and district returns are what keep it. MindFlow builds all of that into your normal clinical workflow.
See the de-addiction suite →Informational, not legal advice. Reflects publicly available government sources reviewed in August 2026, including a Haryana SMHA rules update from May 2026 that may itself be superseded without much public notice, state authorities in this space update procedures more often than they publicise the fact. Before committing capital or beginning construction, confirm current fees, forms and infrastructure standards directly with the Haryana State Mental Health Authority, your district Civil Surgeon's office, and a lawyer qualified in Indian health and narcotics law.