Over 16,000 People Committed Suicide Due To Bankruptcy: MHA Informs Parliament

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has informed the parliament that over 16,000 people committed suicide due to bankruptcy or indebtedness while 9,140 people ended their lives due to unemployment between 2018 and 2020.

While responding to a question by Samajwadi Party's Sukhram Singh Yadav, the minister said that as many as 9,140 people ended their lives due to unemployment, the highest number of such cases — 3,548 were reported in 2020, when a lockdown was imposed in order to contain the spread of COVID-19.

''5,213 people committed suicide due to bankruptcy or indebtedness in 2020, 5,908 in 2019 and 4,970 in 2018. A total of 3,548 people committed suicide due to unemployment in 2020, 2,851 in 2019 and 2,741 in 2018'', he apprised the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.

He further said that the government had launched a number of employment and income-generation programmes for citizens, including Aatmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana (ABRY), which incentivizes employers to create new jobs and also provide social security benefits and restoring employment.

"The National Career Service (NCS) Project for job seekers and employers for job-matching in a dynamic, efficient and responsive manner has a repository of career content for job seekers," he added.

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