12 kids in Madhya Pradesh end life after board exam results

Bhopal: At least a dozen students, including six girls, have ended their lives and two others attempted suicide in Madhya Pradesh in the last 48 hours owing to poor performance in the Class 10 and 12 examinations conducted by the state board.

The tragic incidents were reported from the districts of Satna, Chhatarpur, Guna, Indore, Balaghat, Gwalior, Tikamgarh, Bhind, Jabalpur and Bhopal hours after the results were declared on Saturday afternoon.

A brother-sister duo of Satna district committed suicide after the boy failed to clear Class 10 examination and his sister failed in Class 12, leaving their parents devastated. Both ended their life by hanging themselves in their respective rooms in their native village of Pesiyan in the district, the police said.

Shockingly, a student, identified as Naman Kadve of Bhopal city, committed suicide by injecting himself with a toxic substance when he found his score (74.4 percent) in the exam was much below his expectation of 90 per cent, the police said. Another student, Kanchan Dubey of Jabalpur committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a running train after she failed in Class 12 examination.

A girl of Gwalior attempted suicide by consuming poison after she failed to clear Class 10 exam. She was immediately rushed to nearby hospital and was now out of danger, local the police said.

Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) which conducts the Class 10 and Class 12 examinations has opened a counselling centre to help students who get depressed following poor results in examinations.

“We have received more than 20,000 SOS calls from students who have either failed to clear their exams or could not fare well in the examinations seeking advice how to deal with the situation, in the last 48 hours,” an officer in the centre told this newspaper on Sunday.