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New Delhi : Taking cognisance of the incidents of suicides by the students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs), the Ministry of Human Resource Development  has constituted a Task Force under the Chairmanship of Dr Jitendra Nagpal, Psychiatrist, with the approval of HRD Minister on December 31, 2018, to go into the reasons of suicides reported at the JNVs since its inception.

The Task Force will look into the circumstances leading to the suicidal deaths of students residing in the hostels of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas residential schools and suggest ways to arrest the trend of suicides. Besides, the Ministry has sent a proposal to engage two full time counsellors (one male and one female) in each of the 630 functional JNVs to the Department of Expenditure for approval.

The Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas are fully residential schools managed and run by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, according to a PIB release. A news report had recently appeared in a leading newspaper regarding suicides by the students of JNVs over the last few years.

 

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