Lucknow: Members cutting across party lines
on Wednesday expressed grave concern in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly
over rising suicidal tendency among students due to study
pressure and suggested devising ways to check the trend.
Raising the matter through an adjournment notice,
Congress and BJP members advocated modifying the academic
system.
Pramod Tewari (Congress) said 23 suicides have taken
place in past 20 days and suggested an all party meeting to
discuss the issue.
He also said psychiatrists, educationists and
mediapersons among others should be asked to deliberate on the
serious matter.
Hukum Singh, Satish Mahana and Om Prakash Singh (all BJP)
termed the growing trend as a matter of national concern.
Hukum Singh said the number of suicide cases have gone up
from 3,549 in 2005 to 4,200 in 2009.
Deepak Yadav (SP) regretted that undue pressure on
students was affecting their physical and mental growth.
Sharing the concerns of the members, Parliamentary
Affairs Minister Lalji Verma suggested that Speaker Sukhdev
Rajbhar should convene a meeting to discuss the issue and
promised full cooperation from the government.
Attributing the phenomenon to the deterioration in moral
values, Rajbhar invited leaders of all parties to hammer out a
solution.
PTI
