Behind the high suicide rate among daily wage labourers
The COVID outbreak unleashed a mental health crisis on low-income groups in the unorganised sector, evident by the fact that there has been an over 166 per cent increase in suicide among daily wage workers between 2014 and 2021.
Prameela K
Published on: 5 September 2022, 02:35 pm

The COVID outbreak unleashed a mental health crisis on low-income groups in the unorganised sector, evident by the fact that there has been an over 166 per cent increase in suicide among daily wage workers between 2014 and 2021.
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Why the data on suicides is currently in the news?
INDIA'S stunning 13.5 per cent Gross Domestic Product ('GDP') growth rate could have been a cause for much celebration had it not coincided with the release of the National Crime Records Bureau ('NCRB') data for 2021. 'Crime in India', the annual report of the NCRB for crime-related statistics, reported that the registration of violent crimes such as rape, kidnapping, atrocities against children, robberies and murders increased to levels set before the pandemic. Still, the overall crime rate (per one lakh people) decreased from 487.8 in 2020 to 445.9 in 2021.

