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Delhi may have the highest monthly per capita income in the country according to a recent government survey, but one unemployed person commits suicide every day in the national capital, Delhi Police statistics reveal.

According to the figures, the number of suicides reported between January 1 and December 31 last year went up to 1,899 - a rise of 183% or 10% -- from 1,716 in 2011.

"What the figures clearly show is that there were five suicides every day last year with an unemployed person unfailingly being among the daily tally," said a police officer.

Of the total 1899 suicides registered during 2012, the highest number was of those who were unemployed (369). Of them, 320 were men and 49 women.

The unemployed were followed by housewives. As many as 355 of whom chose to end their lives within the confines of their homes. Private sector employees came next (280) and, finally, students (266).

The police said the total tally of suicide cases included more men (1246). A closer look revealed that a majority of the unemployed who took to ending their lives were aged between 15 and 29 years - 177 men and 43 women.

Delhi: a jobless person ends life every day - Hindustan Times

 

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India's Educated Are Killing Themselves

It is often believed that education is the key to happiness and prosperity in everyone’s life. The general perception, however, seems to be wrong. As per the latest National Crime Records Bureau-2012 (NCRB) report, educated men and women are less likely to commit suicide than their non-educated counterparts.

A Zee Research Group analysis of the NCRB report reveals that the suicide rate amongst literate people is higher compared to people with no education.
While 81.3 per cent of literate people committed suicides in 2012, 19.7 per cent of illiterate people took the extreme step to end their lives in 2012.

In 2011, as against 80 per cent of literate suicide victims, 10.9 per cent illiterate people contributed to suicidal deaths.
Reasoning excessive pressure and lack of job opportunities for increasing number of suicides amongst educated people, Ripan Sippy, a clinical psychologist from Delhi said, “After completion of education when one fails to get a decent job they slip into deep depression and isolation. This is the time when their mental imbalance forces them to kill themselves.”

As matter of fact, suicidal deaths within people educated up to primary level and middle level accounted the most at 23.0 per cent in 2012.
Similarly in 2012, 3.4 per cent suicide victims were graduated and 0.6 per cent victims were post-graduated.

NCRB also reports that in 2012, the percentage of men suicide victims both in literate and illiterate category is higher than their women counterparts.
While 66.2 per cent of literate male committed suicide in 2012, 61 per cent of illiterate male killed themselves in 2012.

The issue of higher suicidal deaths amongst educated people has also been raised in another report published in the British Medical journal -The Lancet (Released on June 22’2012).

According to the Lancet study, educated persons were at greater risk of completing a suicide.

The report further shows that the risk of completing a suicide was 43 per cent higher in men, who finished secondary or higher education, in comparison to those who had not completed primary education. Among women, the risk increased to 90 per cent.

Commenting on rising risk of men committing suicides, Atit Rajpara, men rights activist said, “Social expectations in Indian families forces every man to earn for the entire family. When you fail to meet expectations and lack every bit of support to vent your feelings, you take the extreme step of killing yourself.”

Suicide a curse of the educated in India - India - DNA

 

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Indians have a long way to catch up to the Chinese.

Suicide in China is unlike anywhere else in the world.


Chinese women are killing themselves at astronomical rates: is the one-child policy to blame? | LifeSiteNews.com

 

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Debt-ridden farmer commits suicide

BURDWAN: A debt-ridden sharecropper committed suicide by consuming pesticide at Ghosh Kamalpur village in Galsi police station area of Burdwan on Friday night.

The victim - 46-year-old Sambhu Ruidas - was taken to Burdwan Medical College Hospital where he later died.

Sambhu's nephew Goutam Ruidas said that the victim had cultivated paddy on two bighas of khas land and two bighas of sharecroppers' land. "He had taken Rs 8,000 as loan from the local mahajan at a very rate of interest. But because of incessant rainfall during Durga Puja, the crops got damaged. He feared that he will be unable to repay the loan and won't be able to get his two daughters married. Unable to bear the huge financial loss, he committed suicide," said Goutam.

Debt-ridden farmer commits suicide - Times Of India

 

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As Chinese Farmers Fight for Homes, Suicide Is Ultimate Protest

 

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'Harassed' by cops, man commits suicide

A man jumped before a speeding train near Bela Road Crossing on Monday following alleged police harassment. He was later identified as Santosh Kumar of Gandhinagar area of Shivli. The Chaubeypur police recovered a suicide note from his possession. "The letter mentions that Santosh was being regularly harassed by Shivli cops. The cops had threatened to book him," said Chaubeypur station officer Bheemsen Pauniya.

Unable to take harassment any more, Santosh committed suicide by jumping in front of speeding Mathura-Chapra Express on Monday evening. His severed body was found near Bela Road Crossing later by the locals, who alerted the police. The police later apprised his family of the incident and sent the body for post-mortem.

The victim's family members alleged that mental and physical harassment meted out by Shivli cops lead to Santosh's death and demanded arrest of the accused cops.

'Harassed' by cops, man commits suicide - The Times of India