Suicides by daily wagers doubled in 6 years: NCRB

With rampant joblessness, alcohol abuse, economic hardships, domestic violence, India is suffering from a massive mental health crisis. Recently released data by the National Crime Records Bureau showed that nearly a quarter of the total suicides recorded in 2019, were by daily-wage earners.
The data, however, does not include the daily wagers working in the farming sector. The data showed that compared to the previous six years, the share of daily wage workers who died by suicides has doubled to 23.4% in 2019.
Last year, Tamil Nadu recorded the most number of suicides by daily-wage earners, followed by Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala.