Do we need a paracetamol for depression?

It's rightly said, "Depression is a war - you either win or die trying". With this piece of text, I want to highlight the reason for depression among the students and which leads to suicides in worst. In our country suicide cases are rising at a very rapid rate with around 800000 people die every year within the age group 15-29 years.

An article in The Hindu newspaper dated 29th Jan 2020 gave an estimate of 28 people lose this war with depression every day. When discussing this topic with my parents, they just turned the head & replied, "these students were lazy enough to compete with other students & out of laziness took a shortcut path".Is it right to only blame students.  Let's unfold the pages of the darkest & worst policies of our education institution, this would be the first article which shall be speaking on such cruelty over students.

Case study 1:

Central board secondary education (CBSE)  around 7 to 8 years back launched a scheme known as CCE(continuous comprehensive evaluation). In this scheme, they said that students need not study the entire book for final exam but can study half book for 6 months & rest half book for 6 months. Among which

40%--> half yearly exam

40% --> annual exam

20%---> internal test & project 

Fine nice scheme and everyone followed it. It was a jackpot for 10th class students as 60% of the marks were with the school & rest 40% were in the hands of board. Suddenly after 7 years the board removed this scheme and now students have to score from zero onwards from board exam itself with zero marks from school side. It's like board wanted to test a scheme on students to check how does it work. Now for those students who were studying half the syllabus till 9th & suddenly have to study full syllabus in 10th with no internal marks. It's like first they want us to carry 25kg uptill 9th then shift on to 100kg. Even when a vaccine is made, it is first tested on animals and then on adults but not on children.

After 10th every parent want thier ward to be either doctor or engineer so with that vision they are sent to kota or any other city for coaching classes. There's a story of a student who couldn't qualify JEE and had to jump off the train while returning from kota back to his home. Every year lakhs of students compete to get a seat in a IIT college, there are 23 IITs in india with 11k seats and the participants are around 10 lakhs in 2018 & 9.36 laks in 2019 the chances of getting seats are minimum of minimum but we have the pressure of relatives that sharma ji son is in IIT. Now every parent wants his child to get a seat in IIT such that they can boost among their circle. Not every IITian is a successful engineer and not evety Non-IITian is jobless. I can give a countless examples of students who being from IIT left engineering & took up other profession & who were Non-IITian are leading companies dominating the research & development sector....

Would end by saying, it's ok to fail - just get up and try until you succeed. Remember we didn't learn to walk in one try, we fell again we started walking again fell... It is said people only remember FIRST RANK, i say you need not be in the rank list itself. Find a list where you are only one leading, king of that field with none second, none first rank.. One of ur kind, different from the rest.

You have the capability & u can do it, just take a step forward.....