Student Suicides Raise Concern In Gujarat As 5 Cases Reported In 8 Days

Image : AI Generated Representative image Educational campuses across Gujarat are facing renewed concern over student suicides, with five students reported to have died by suicide in Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara in the last eight days.

The recent cases include students who died after jumping from high-rise buildings and a Class 10 student in Vadodara who died by suicide by hanging. The incidents have once again raised questions around academic pressure, parental expectations and social stress faced by students.

Marwadi University in Rajkot has come under focus after two student suicides were reported within a short period.

On September 16, a female student died by suicide after jumping from the 10th floor of the university campus. Now, a third-year Computer Engineering student, identified as Hemant Sitaram Prasad Gandham, 20, from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, has died after jumping from the sixth floor.

According to police information, Hemant lived in the university hostel. On Friday morning, he attended his third-floor classroom with his classmates as usual.