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Teaching is being considered as one of the noblest profession since ancient times. With the changing socioeconomic scenario and increasing unemployment, the values of teachers' and their professional concern with the job have forcibly undergone a drastic change which adversely affects their mental health. The level of mental health of a teacher has been found affected with numerous personal as well as professional demands. Health of teachers, on social, physical and mental health domains adds to the efficiency not only to their professional growth and development but also to their personality. Moreover, they have also been considered as the constructors of the future of a country. Keeping these facts into the consideration, present study aimed to access the level of personal mental health of male and female secondary school teachers. For this multi stage random sampling technique was adopted. 185 teachers were drawn randomly from 15 randomly selected secondary level schools of Bareilly district Rohilkhand region (U.P.). One standardized test "Mithila Mental Health status Inventory" constructed and standardized by "Kumar and Thakur" was used. This survey research leads us to conclusion that gender does not affect the mental health of secondary level teachers.