21 students committed suicide after failing an exam in India

A group of teenagers from the state of Telangana, central India, they started committing suicide April 20, when the Council of Intermediate Education announced the test results for admission to universities.

The cases began to recur in the last ten days and the last young person who lost their life is Sirisha, 17, who had received a poor grade on the zoology exam. As confirmed by local media, young people he caught fire in his own house in the Narayanpet district, Saturday.

Akrapu Mithi was 19 years old and, immersed in a deep depression to not be able to access the tertiary level, hanged at his home in Naginenipally. While another teenager, 18, has committed suicide jump from a train in Warangal.

In all there were 21 cases enrolled, about 350,000 students who failed. About one million were submitted to exams between February and March.

The Prime Minister of Telangana, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, ordered an investigation and revealed "serious flaws" in the computer system used to qualify the tests, a program run by a private company, according to the British newspaper Daily mail.

Authorities sent a message to reconsider the confirmation of suicides and offered young people the opportunity to re-examine at no cost, without believing that the result was unfair. Many of them had good grades in previous tests, so they believe that the correction failed.

"A failing exam does not mean failing in life. Life is precious Even if one fails the exam, there will be many more opportunities, "said Chandrashekar Rao, as hundreds of parents took to the streets in recent days to protest against this. who has gone over and asking for compensation At least 50,000 students have asked to retake the exam.