If we talk about the statistics of suicide in India, then 120 deaths per million population have been recorded here. This is the highest ever level in terms of annual statistics of suicides. Nationally, the number of suicides has increased by 7.17 percent between 2020 and 2021. The daily wage earner community is the largest occupation-wise group among suicide victims in 2021.
The total share of persons engaged in agriculture in the total recorded suicides was 6.6 per cent during 2021. Maharashtra has recorded the highest number of suicide cases during this period. Talking about the main reasons for this, it was mainly due to mental health issues induced by the epidemic, family problems (besides marriage related problems), marriage related problems and illness etc.
If we talk about the death due to road accidents, then in the year 2021, the death toll in road accidents has increased by 17 percent. In the year 2021, 55 lakh people died in accidents on Indian roads, which was 21.33 lakh in 2020. The total number of road accidents in 2021 was recorded at 4.03 lakh. The maximum number of cases were reported in Tamil Nadu during this period. The biggest reason for this is speeding vehicles and this has caused 87,000 deaths, more than half of all deaths. While there were more than 42000 deaths due to dangerous and reckless driving.
If we talk about the crime against women, the NCRB report also shows that the rate of crime against women (number of incidents per 1 lakh population) increased from 56.5 percent in 2020 to 64.5 percent in 2021. happened. If we look at these offenses by categories, then 31.8 percent of the total crimes fall under the category of cruelty by the husband or his relatives. This is followed by “assaults on women with intent to outrage her modesty (20.8%), kidnapping and attempted abduction (17.6%) and rape (7.4%).
In terms of actual number of reported cases of crime against women, Uttar Pradesh ranks at the top. Nagaland has recorded the lowest number of crimes against women in the last three years.
