India: 21 students committed suicide after failing an exam

In the state of Telangana, centrally located in India, 21 students committed suicide after learning that they had failed the college entrance examination.

Among the last victims figure a young man who threw himself into the railway know the results and a student who died after catching fire.

The council of intermediate education released the results on April 18 and reported that between February and March, one million students pbaded the test. They failed 350,000.

The large number of students who did not pbad the test aroused the anxiety of parents and members of the educational community, which led to They demanded that the exams be reviewed.

Many young people scored well in previous tests, which explains why Telangana's prime minister, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, ordered an investigation. This revealed "serious "flaws" in the new computer system used to qualify the tests, a program of the private company Globearena, according to the British newspaper Daily mail.

The government released the report and asked students not to hurt. Although it has been revealed that the percentage of students affected is small, opened the possibility for young people to retake the examat no cost if they feel that the result is not fair.

"Do not pbad an exam does not mean fail in life, life is precious. Even if we fail the exam, there will be many more possibilities"said Chandrashekar Rao.

Hundreds of parents have taken to the streets these days to protest what happened.

"The first year, my son had excellent grades, but now his grade is very low, I do not know what to do, I badured him that everything would be solved but, And does he hurt himself too?says a father to the chain News 18.

The protesters asked the government compensation of 2.5 million rupees (35,800 USD), according to the information of India today. In addition, more than 50,000 students requested a new correction despite having approved it because they are not satisfied with the result.

India, "the suicide capital of the world"

The tragedy of these 21 hiding students an underlying problem of growing concern: the number of suicides in India continues to grow, less and less official reports on the subject and government figures are the true dimension of the phenomenon.

"When I was in India, from January to June 2010, I had trouble reading headlines almost daily about students, farmers and domestic workers. they hanged themselves, jumped in front of trains, drank poison or sacrificed themselves ", explained to the website Daya Shandu, professor of psychological counseling at the University of Louisville, United States Human journalism.

In the case of students "the paternal pressure for them to stand out in their university studies This is a suicide factor badociated with substance abuse problems and family relationships, "said the expert.

According to a report from the World Health Organization, India has the highest suicide rate in the world among young people ages 15 to 29. The 2018 Public Health Profile indicates that 33% of the more than 133,000 registered suicides in the country are between 30 and 45 years old. a figure that worsens in the 15 to 29 age group.

Suicide data for women are also higher than those for any country in the world. And is it 4 women out of 10 who decide to end their lives in the world are of Indian nationality, according to a survey of the scientific journal The lancet.

The rate, which is established in 15 women out of 100,000, doubles the world average (7 out of 100,000). "Early marriage and convenience, a young motherhood, low social status and domestic violence" would be the main causes of this problem.