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18-year-old commits suicide in Tamil Nadu, third student to do so in 2 days

The NEET exam has been controversial for a few years now after several students committed suicide, leading to protests against it.

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Villupuram: An 18-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself in her house near here on Thursday after failing to clear the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, a day after two girls ended their lives in Tamil Nadu for the same reason.

A total of three girls have committed suicide within two days in the state after the NEET results were declared.

M Monisha took her life after she could not crack the exam for the second time this year.

“She could not succeed in her previous attempt last year and the girl this year has got a very low score in NEET,” a district police official told PTI.

The student, belonging to Koonimedu Kuppam near Marakkanam in this district, had completed her Class 12 from a reputed school at Tiruchengode in Erode district.


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Belonging to the fishermen community, she studied hard for the exam for a year and was dejected due to her failure, the official said.

Preliminary enquiries revealed that the girl’s mother had died recently.

She was close to her father and may have felt that he would be dejected about the outcome, the official said.

On June 5, S Ritusree and N Vaishiya of Tirupur and Pattukottai respectively ended their lives following their failure in NEET.

In 2017, Anitha of Ariyalur district had committed suicide following her failure to clear the NEET and it led to protests and opposition to the test.

Last year, S Prathiba from Villupuram district and K Subashri of Tiruchirappalli had killed themselves for the same reason.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Do whatever you can to feed the secessionist propaganda. TN is in its present plight because of deliberate lowering of standard of education for the ease of emotional manipulation. TN has no issues that the rest of India don’t have except Dravidianism. If that is cured, TN will regain its rightful place among states of India. If students are committing suicide, make them emotionally fit. Nobody cuts off their head because of headache.

  2. In Tamilnadu, there is no need for any particular reason. Suicides are for anything and everything. Because of this, some political parties will insist on banning NEET, when rest of the country has no issues with NEET.
    Tamilnadu is different in many ways

  3. For seventy five years, TN politicians have preached parochialism. They have never given a vision to the youth of TN. They gave the people of TN two objectives – call yourself backward for ever and avail the privileges of low cutoffs, low quality state board education, liberal marking to make it easy to compete with CBSE children and hate the handful of brahmins living in TN. While the era was changing and children all over India were preparing for National Entrance Exams, in TN, the politicians fought with one another to get rid of entrance tests and pushed for admission in Medicine based on highly liberal state board markings. There was even more sinister idea behind it – deny a level playing field that a handful of brahmin children got through the Entrance Tests. If the admissions of last twenty five years in TN Medical seats were to be analysed, the number of brahmin students would be less than 1%. Even when the competition from Brahmins was almost non-existent in Medical field, they imposed an atrocity called caste-based cut offs, which eliminated even the handful from competing. This monstrous atrocity not opposed by Indian politicians, media and human rights groups is called “Social Justice”.

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