MP YOUTHS KILL THEMSELVES HOURS BEFORE BOARD EXAM

BHOPAL: “Sorry mummy papa mujhse physics nahi banti…. sorry..n me fail nahi hona chahta (Sorry, mummy papa I cannot do physics and I don’t want to fail in the examination)”.

These were the last words of a class 12 student who apologised to his parents for his being weak in physics before he ended his life, in a Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district town early morning on Saturday. His body was found hours before he was supposed to take the exam.

Similarly, a girl student at Bina in Sagar district committed suicide. According to police she feared failure in English subject in class 12 and she was to appear in the examination on Saturday morning for the subject.

A spate of suicides by school students under the pressure of study and examinations has rocked the state. The matter echoed in the state assembly on Friday driving the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to announce in the House that anybody who forced students to get higher marks would be treated as criminals.

The state assembly has also constituted an all-party committee to look into the students suicides. The committee will submit its report after having discussions with experts in the field of education and psychologists as to how to check recurrence of students’ suicides in the state.

Since January 1, 2016 there have been at least 13 reported incidents of suicide by school students under alleged pressure of study and examinations. On Saturday, two more suicides by school students take the total unfortunate count to 15.

According to Hoshangabad Kotwali police station officials, the deceased 17-year-old Abhishek Sahu was a student of class 12 in Samaritans Senior Secondary School. He was taking the ongoing board examinations of class 12 and was preparing for physics paper examination in which was to be held on Saturday.