A day ahead of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), three medical college aspirants in Tamil Nadu committed suicide on Saturday fearing failure.
Madurai-based Jyothi Sridurga, daughter of policeman Murugasundaram, hanged herself at her residence on Saturday.
Sridurga said in a note that she had prepared well for the exam but was scared of the result.
She said no one should be blamed and conveyed her apologies to her parents for her decision.
The day’s second suicide happened in Dharmapuri where a boy identified as Aditya snuffed out his own life.
In Namakkal district, another boy, Motilal, hanged himself.
With this, the total number of suicides of medical college aspirants in Tamil Nadu has gone up to four during the last few days.
On Wednesday, Vignesh, an aspiring medical student, committed suicide over NEET fears.
Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam in a tweet expressed his pain at the students’ suicides.
He said students should develop the willpower to face challenges.
Panneerselvam said the parents should also extend support to their children.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M K Stalin said in a tweet that the NEET has a destabilising effect on the students as can be seen from the death of Anitha, the first student who committed suicide, to Sridurga.
Stalin said he was shocked to know that Sridurga committed suicide and added that the medical college entrance test is not at all an exam and suicide is not the solution.