Every Hour, 15 People Suicide in India

Ram Babu, poor farmers in India, owe 6000 dollars to buy a new tractor. What is the harvest failed and this time it left no money to pay off that debt.

The debt collector was doing to her terror, and even hired drummers to get around the village and announced to the villagers about the unpaid debt that Babu.

"My father could not bear the shame, he is an honorable man. The next day he hanged himself in a tree," said Ram Gulam, his son.

The story of Ram Babu's death is typical of most cases of suicide in India. News Babu committed suicide were not reported in local newspapers, but a statistically high numbers of suicides. According to the Government of India, every hour there are 15 cases of suicide.

In a recent report mentioned, last year nearly 135,000 people committed suicide in the country has a population of nearly 1.2 billion people. Expected 5.9 percent increase in suicides this year.

Financial difficulties and debt is the principal cause of suicide in men. Whereas in women the main reason was domestic violence, both physical and mental as well as the pressure will be brought dowry of the bride.

In 2008, WHO put India in the rank 41st in the country's most high-ranking cases of suicide. Because its population is large, suicides in India reached 20 percent of cases globally.

The highest regional suicide cases were in the area of ​​southern India, like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka. The main job the people there are farmers.