13000 suicide cases of students recorded in one year by the NCRB, 2023
Digital News Guru Delhi Desk: The National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) released their report on ‘Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India, 2022’ in which it is recorded that over 13000 students have committed suicide in 2022.
In most of the cases, students committed suicide because of the failure in the examination, which recorded at least 1,123 suicides for this reason. These are students who were below the age of 18 years, in which girls were recorded (578), boys were recorded (575), and the overall suicides of children below the age of 18 were recorded at 10,295 in 2022. But across this age group, there are also cases of suicide among the students because of the failure in the examination, and the cases reported are 2,095.
The states that recorded the highest number of suicides because of this particular reason of failure in examination are Maharashtra (378 cases), Madhya Pradesh (277), followed by Jharkhand (174) in third place, Karnataka (162), and then Gujarat (155) deaths. But overall, in terms of suicide deaths without any particular reason, Sikkim has the highest position with 43.1%, followed by Kerala at 28.5% and Chhattisgarh at 28.2%, which remain in the second and third positions, respectively.
About the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB)
The National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) was set up in 1986 by the recommendations of the National Police Commission (1977–81) and the task force of MHA (1985), which is headquartered in New Delhi. So this agency works under the Ministry of Home Affairs, which has the prime objective of collecting and analyzing data related to crime.
This government agency has many functions to perform, such as maintaining the fingerprints of all the criminals as a national database in the country and collecting information about the crime and the criminals and giving it to the Indian police to empower them. The present head of the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) is Vivek Gogia, who has been appointed as the Director of the NCRB.
Student suicide deaths in Kota, 2023
Kota, Rajasthan, is famous as a coaching hub for IIT and NEET preparation. Every year, thousands of students come to the city to prepare for one of these toughest examinations, but many students commit suicide.
This year in 2023, at least 26 students have committed suicide in Kota, and the reason is unknown, but it is estimated that the reason behind these suicides is the constant academic pressure to crack the examination, and sometimes students find themselves alone to deal with such a competitive environment, which sometimes causes depression, and at the end, as a consequence, students commit suicide.
Solutions to prevent student suicide deaths
Many students are committing suicide now due to academic pressure, which is very disturbing because these students are the future of our country, and we should take steps to stop these suicides.
First of all, parents of the students should be very supportive towards their children, whether they are performing well or poorly in their academics, and should not criticize them every time. In the institution, teachers should be trained in mental health first aid so they can help the students by providing counseling services. There should be an open discussion of mental health and suicide among the students.
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