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Abstract : To study the rehabilitation needs of severely mentally ill person and to ascertain the efficacy of intervention strategies to meet out these needs, a group of 50 severely mentally ill persons, 25 each in experimental and control group as per proposed inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected from indoor and out patient clinic of IHBAS as sample of the study. Intervention package used in the study included psycho-education, activity scheduling and social skill training. To see the effect of intervention parameters used were symptom reduction, disability remediation, subjective wellbeing and dysfunction in social, family, personal, vocational and cognitive areas. Rehabilitation need assessment schedule, Mini Mental Status Examination, Positive and Negative symptom scale, Disability Assessment Schedule, Subjective well being Inventory and Dysfunctional Analysis Questionnaire were administered to collect desired data twice in the pre and post intervention phases. Pre assessment followed intervention sessions conducted for the experimental group for eight weeks duration. During this period control group subjects were waitlisted for this intervention. Results indicated that intervention is effective in symptom reduction, disability remediation, improving subjective well being and functioning in personal, social, family and cognitive areas.