APCC seeks stringent action into suicides in educational institutions

The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee has demanded that the State Government initiate stringent action into suicides of students reported from the universities and private educational institutions that were on the rise.

Referring to the latest incident of two girls reportedly committing suicide at a private college in Kadapa, APCC president N. Raghuveera Reddy said that the Government should bring to book the culprits behind the incidents and ``hang them’’. The incident in Kadapa followed suicide committed by B. Arch student Rishiteswari in Acharya Nagarjuna University recently.

He alleged that the Government appeared to be shielding the guilty. This was evident from the fact that no action had been initiated against the management of the college in Kadapa reportedly owned by a State Minister. “The Chief Minister has confined himself to issuing statements in the media. Let an inquiry be ordered and those found guilty of the incident hanged,” he said.

He demanded that the Government direct the managements of the private institutions to pay Rs.25 lakh compensation to the families of the victims while the Government should compensate the families of students who resorted to the extreme steps in the institutions run by it.