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49,249 students committed suicide Between 2011 and 2016, reports

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49,249 students committed suicide Between 2011 and 2016, reports
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Mental health, parental pressure reasons for students committed suicide: Between 2011 and 2016, 49,249 students have killed themselves as per statistics from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). 6,654 students committed suicide in 2012; 8,423 in 2013; 8,068 in 2014; and 8,934 in 2015. The number spiked to 9,474 in 2016, says NCRB data shared by the ministry of home affairs in Parliament last week. Enormous parental expectations, ragging and the inability to cope with a new environment are among the factors that lead to such a drastic step by students in the last 5 years. Mental illness has come across as a major reason for suicidal thoughts. Last week, speaking at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, President Ram Nath Kovind said India was looking at a possible mental health epidemic. Quoting a study, Mr Kovind said what was alarming was that mental health problems were also affecting the young, who were in the prime of their lives. “It says that 10% of Indians have one or more mental health problem in a nation of 1.3 billion people... If you put it in context, the number of Indians suffering from mental health problem is larger than the population of Japan,” said the President. Even as counselling centres are becoming the norm in institutes such as the IITs, centres with resident psychologists who can intervene at the onset of mental problems — which often coincide with the physical and psychological changes that an adolescent or teenager experiences — are yet to become commonplace. Along with counselling at schools and colleges, the State must also bolster the infrastructure of helplines that promise anonymity and instant redress of a teenage student’s anxieties. -PTC News-
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