Admn launches campaign to curb incidence of suicide in region

Identifying unemployment, frustration, family problems, poverty, harassment, sexual violence, social discrimination and chronic diseases as major factors behind suicidal tendency, the administration has launched a coordinated campaign to spread awareness on the subject among target groups.

An oath was taken in response to call made by officials of the administration, led by SSP Gagan Ajit Singh and DC Viraj S Tidke, on the occasion of World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD).

Office-bearers and activists of various international organisations announced their support for the campaign, launched by the administration to transform the WSPD-2025 theme ‘Creating Hope Through Action’ into reality by spreading awareness on the subject and curbing factors responsible for the rise in number of suicide cases during the past decade.

SSP Gagan Ajit said that circle officers at Ahmedgarh, Amargarh and Malerkotla had been advised to organise events to spread awareness on the rising factors responsible for abetment to suicide.

Addressing a seminar at MGMN Senior Secondary School, Ahmedgarh, SP Rajan Sharma claimed that most suicides could be prevented by timely identification and counselling of persons showing initial symptoms of suicidal tendency.

Amjad Ali, PDG of an international service organisation, said activists led by district governor Bhupesh Mehta had been advised to coordinate with units of industrial chambers of their respective regions and act as a bridges between unemployed youth and prospective employers in the private and public sector.

“Having identified unemployment as one of the major factors behind stress-related suicides among youths, we have coordinated with entrepreneurs, including industrialists and traders, who have promised to generate the maximum number of jobs by rationalising their other expenses,” said Ali.

Appreciating the initiative taken by the administration and the entrepreneurs, consultant psychiatrist Dr Anshu Gupta said the gesture would go a long way in preventing suicidal tendencies among youths as job loss had been a major factor behind suicides among youths during past years.