5 students die by suicide in Hyderabad after bad results in exam

Six students, including three girls, have died by suicide in Telangana after the results of the intermediate exam, which covers Classes 11 and 12,  were declared  on Tuesday.

While five of these deaths were reported from Hyderabad, the sixth was registered in Nizamabad.

A 17-year-old girl died by suicide at her house in Hyderabad’s Vanasthalipuram, the police said. At Raidurgam, a 16-year-old girl, also a first-year Intermediate student, died by suicide. A second-year intermediate student died by suicide in Panjagutta.

Two boys, both second-year intermediate students, died by suicide in Neredmet and Saifabad on Tuesday.

A first-year intermediate student, who failed in the exam, died by suicide in Nizamabad’s Armoor.

This is the second tragedy related to student suicides following poor exam results which comes within a fortnight of nine students ending their lives in Andhra Pradesh after the declaration of Classes 11 and 12 exam results.

Student deaths after the declaration of intermediate exam results have been taking place in the past as well. In December 2021, after six students died by suicide, the government had decided to pass all students in the first year intermediate exam to reduce stress.

After the Covid pandemic, everyone was declared provisionally promoted to intermediate second-year. However, in the second year intermediate exam that was held in the following year as many as 51 per cent of the students failed.