Vijayawada: Number of suicidal deaths have increased in the city and row of incidents recorded from the past a few weeks is alarming.
Suicidal tendencies were increasing with pressure and depression and youth were ending their valuable lives for short-term problems.
Meanwhile, vendors in the city were avoiding sale of specific products like nylon threads, rat poison and sharp knifes to teenagers as a token of effort to save lives of youth who were trying to end life due to depression.
Huge competition in studies and career, along with emotional relationships in social media were creating depression in the youth. Confidence in facing problems has decreased and youth prefer to end life for simple reasons.
Meanwhile, majority of the commercial establishments in city have taken this issue seriously and stopped selling products which are used by youth to end their lives.
After ban on sale of sleeping pills and dangerous medications without prescriptions by physicians, it is hardware stores in city that have now come forward voluntarily and stopped selling knives, ropes and acidic chemicals.
While this correspondent tried to buy a heavy gage nylon rope at a hardware stores, they have refused to sell the product and asked for the purpose.
“Youth were trying to end life due to petty reasons and suicide has become a simple thing now. After considering the series of incidents and requests from city police, I have decided not to sell specific products to teenagers. We had even removed ropes and knives from our display,”says Ambati Naga Varaprasad, a hardware store owner at Governorpet.
City police and psychiatrists are appreciating the initiative by the businessmen in the city.
“Reducing access to the means will definitely help prevent suicides and pesticide sellers and hardware stores, along with chemists are strictly implementing it and we should appreciate it,”says Dr Indla Rama Subba Reddy, senior psychiatrist.
“Teenagers and youth who are emotionally immature and impulsive in nature, are committing suicide for small reasons and it is the parents who should take the responsibility of spending valuable time with their children and generate hope in them,” the psychiatrist added.
