As protests end, rise in student suicides and increasing cost burden await focus
Reports indicate that more than a dozen students died by suicide after the exam was cancelled and rescheduled due to widespread allegations of question papers getting leaked. The ADSI reports capture “failure in examination” as a distinct category of reason for suicides. Suicides for which “failure in examination” was the primary reason accounted for 21%, or more than one-fifth, of the total number of student suicides between 2014 and 2024.Over 2,000 students died every year due to failure in examinations, with 2021 being the only exception.
- ▪Reports indicate that more than a dozen students died by suicide after the exam was cancelled and rescheduled due to widespread allegations of question papers getting leaked.
- ▪The ADSI reports capture “failure in examination” as a distinct category of reason for suicides.
- ▪Suicides for which “failure in examination” was the primary reason accounted for 21%, or more than one-fifth, of the total number of student suicides between 2014 and 2024.Over 2,000 students died every year due to failure in examinations,
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The sustained protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) demanding accountability over paper leaks in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) came to an end on Saturday with the government accepting many of their demands, including the resignation of Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan, compensation for the families of the deceased who ended their lives over the NEET paper leaks, and the withdrawal of criminal cases against protesters.Thousands of protesters who gathered across many places in the country despite crackdown by the government, including brutal police action in Delhi on July 20, have termed Mr. Pradhan’s resignation a ‘historic win’.
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