A silent epidemic in India...!? Students' lives are its target?
india has data-faced many problems. It has endured many ups and downs. Now it is one of the fastest developing countries. Aiming to join the top GDP countries. But, it is said that a silent epidemic has now become a great danger to the youth who are the future of India. Higher education institutions like IIT, ANITY, and IIM are now being heard that they are become pressure when it comes to India's future youth. More than 98 students committed suicide between 2019 and 2023 in such higher education institutions.
It is noteworthy that the highest number of 39 deaths occurred in IITs. It is said that most of these are registered in IIT Madras. Experts say that the reason for this is extreme stress. The situation is understandable as more than 2,00,000 students compete for 1,207 seats in the top 15 IITs every year. In the recent internal surveys conducted by the IIT student organizations, it is said that academic pressure is the main reason for the suicides of about 61 percent of the students in these institutes. In addition to this, it is said that lack of proper job placements also increases this pressure. The debate started that this trend is more evident in the data presented by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) that shook delhi on Diwali. While the number of students who committed suicide was 6,654 in 2013, the number increased to 13,044 in 2022. It is said that their number is high in Karnataka, Maharashtra, and tamil Nadu.