Hope Lost, Lives Stolen: 78 Suicides in J&K Raise Urgent Questions

Hope Lost, Lives Stolen: 78 Suicides in J&K Raise Urgent Questions

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Tuesday said that around 78 persons committed suicide in Jammu and Kashmir from 2020 to 2022 by youth due to unemployment. The Minister of State (MoS) in the MHA Nityanand Rai was replying to a query raised by Member Parliament Vijayakumar who had raised a query that whether the issue of unemployment was the main cause of youth taking extreme steps of suicide in the country. The MP also sought to know whether there had been a spurt in the number of suicides…

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