Jamshedpur : Steel City woke up on Wednesday to witness two suicides under Birsanagar and Olidih police station areas. In one of the incident, a 22-year-old man Vinod Shao committed suicide by hanging at his house in Olidih in Mango early morning, whereas in another incident a 35-year-old bachelor Bir Ratan Guria committed suicide by hanging at his house in Birsanagar.
The police have recovered both the bodies from Birsanagar and Olidih and sent them to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem.
Officer-in-charge, Olidih police station Shusma Kumari said that Vinod committed suicide when his wife, mother and younger brother were doing their daily work at their house.
In the other incident of suicide, Bir Ratan who worked as a store keeper in Tata Main Hospital committed suicide due to frustration with his life. According to relatives, Bir Ratan was a bachelor and would stay with his elder brother and elderly widow mother at his house in Birsanagar Zone No 2.
Officials of city based suicide prevention center Jeevan, said that a complete report of the suicide trend in the city is being filed. However, as of now cases of suicide is still being reported. Official , said that during 2014 a total of 575 distressed calls were received. � Rising stress and depression are the major reasons.
In our study we have found that depression and rising pressure to perform is the prime reason for the rising suicides. So there is an urgent need to understand the problem and address it. He said that the number of people contacting Jeevan centre has increased over the years.
�Depression is the major concern of the society. It is not only medically harmful but it also leads people to commit suicide. While studying we have found that people who are depressed have higher tendency to commit suicide.
So there is an urgent need to understand the problem and address it,� said Dr. U K Srivastava, city based medical practioner.
He said that cases are caused by exposure of youths to uninhibited violence on television. The inability to perform well in examinations also forced students to end life. Like failure, illness is also a major cause of suicide.
�Trends are changing in our city though the numbers have reduced this year. Suicide, which about two decades ago was supposed to be the domain of the elderly, youths and women have taken the lead in this pursuit of death,� said Srivastava.
