No fewer than 19 students in India’s Telangana state are thought to have committed suicide, after failing school final examinations, officials and news reports said on Thursday.
Parents and students have been protesting across the state since the results of the Intermediate Examination for students of the two senior most grades were announced on April 18. Out of the 974,000 students, who appeared for the Intermediate Exam, a total of 328,000 failed, Telangana Chief Minister, Chandrasekhar Rao, said in a statement.
He has set up a three-member panel to probe conduct and assessment of answer papers. “There have been a spate of suicides which, on preliminary investigations, are linked to the examination results,’’ Senior Police Official, Shika Goel, said. Read more