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| Jammu emerges as unhappiest district in 2011, with a suicide, or attempt to suicide per day | | | Bharat Bhushan
Jammu, Dec 29: With the career of J&K youth put on life support in the absence of jobs for all of them, Jammu recorded a suicide, or attempt to suicide per day in 2001. This makes it the unhappiest district this year, which ends in two days.
The winter capital witnessed an alarming jump in the incidents of suicide and attempt to suicide this year, official sources said.
Reasons cited for this included unemployment, financial stress, high expectations of parents from their children in examinations and incompatability in relations between married couples.
Hardly a day passes when the government medical college and hospital (GMCH) here does not record a case of suicide, or attempt to suicide.
Two girls swallowed poison and ended their lives on the day their result was announced after they came to know that they had failed. Both were students of 12th class. At least four others survived the bid on their lives that day.
High levels of depression were noticed among youth because of their bleak career prospects, the sources added.
30-year-old Bankim Chandra Shastri had burnt himself to death to his residence at Muthi here. He was an ad hoc lecturer in the statistics department of Jammu University and had ended life because he did not have a permanent job. He was under severe depression because of this.
Shastri had done Ph.D. in statistics from Ujjain University in Madhya Pradesh. He had an excellent academic record.
A youth of Janipura ended life by consuming poison. In his suicide note, he wrote that he was taking the extreme step because he had no work to do.
Sources said depression, post-traumatic stress disorders and anxiety were the main reasons that forced youngsters to commit suicides. To deal with these problems, the government had last year sent a team of doctors to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, the sources added.
In 2009 too, Jammu had emerged as the unhappiest district as it topped in the number of suicides followed by Anantnag district of Kashmir.
Sources said a total of 118 state youth committed suicide in 2009 as compared to 122 in 2008.
Jammu district with 22 suicides topped the list followed by Anantnag district with 20 suicides. Srinagar and Kulgam districts had recorded eight suicides each, the sources added. |
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