Shocking! 18-year old daily wage labourer and student commits suicide, Chhattisgarh

As reported in The Times of India, a student of class XI, Ganesh used to attend school for 15 days and work as a daily wage labourer for the next 15 days to meet the medical expenses of his ailing widow mother. He wanted to study further but extreme poverty made it impossible for him to pursue his dreams. Tired with the daily struggle to make two ends meet, Ganesh committed suicide on Friday by tying a rope to the broken rafters of his house.

Ganesh wrote a suicide note on his mother’s palm which read, “Ma, take care of yourself. I can’t live this kind of life, I wanted to study further but I…”

A villager said, “He tried his best to manage his studies, labour, his mother’s illness and their tattered finances, but it just became too much (to handle).”

Ganesh’s father died a few years ago and they somehow managed to marry his elder sister. He wanted to study further, but with a meagre income of Rs. 200 per day from a pipe contractor, after working for nine hours each day, made it difficult for him to manage his mother’s medical expenses as well as look after the daily survival. A police officer, who met his mother and the neighbours after receiving the news of Ganesh’s suicide said, “He would get so tired by the end of the day that studying became impossible for him.”

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