Out of every three cases of suicide reported every 15 minutes in India, one is committed by a youth in the age group of 15 to 29.
In the Union Territory of Pondicherry, every month at least 15 youths between the ages of 15 and 25 commit suicide.
In 2002, there were 10,982 suicides in Tamil Nadu, 11,300 in Kerala, 10,934 in Karnataka, and 9,433 in Andhra Pradesh.
In 2003, the largest number of farmers –around 175 –committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh.
Kerala, the country’s first fully literate state, has the highest number of suicides. Some 32 people commit suicide in Kerala every day.
These statistics are startling. Southern India is the country’s information technology hub. The southern region is competing with northern India to become the country’s economic powerhouse.
But south India has another distinction, one that it would rather not have: the region accounts for the world’s largest number of suicides by young people, according to The Lancet,the respected British medical journal.
Some 50,000 people in the four states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and the Union Territory of Pondicherry kill themselves every year
Source:http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/apr/15spec.htm
