Unrealistic expectation of parents or teachers is suspected to be the main reason why students commit suicide. Of late, statistics indicate an increase in the number of suicides involving students studying in professional colleges.

The increasing trend of students taking the extreme step is noticeable and situations similar to the scene in which a final year engineering student commits suicide unable to clear his project work in time in actor Vijay's latest film ‘Nanban' are not uncommon. In the last couple of months, there were at least two incidents of students committing suicide by jumping before trains in the Chennai Division of Southern Railway. The parents of students studying final year in different colleges lodged complaints with the Railway Police that the victims were harassed by their teachers. The police registered a case of suspicious death in both the incidents, police sources said on Saturday.

On January 30, a first year student studying Nano Technology in a city engineering college was reported missing. Investigation revealed that the 18-year-old of Hyderabad was sent out of college by his lecturers after he failed in two subjects. His father, a school teacher, convinced him that he would talk to the college authorities and both started in a train to Chennai. While the train stopped at Renigunta (Andhra Pradesh), the boy disappeared leaving a note near his father (who was sleeping) saying that he was leaving forever........Read More

Source: The Hindu