Weak Hearted? or A deeper problem?
Pushed allegedly by his college to perform better, a 19-year-old engineering student committed suicide early on Tuesday in his hostel room.
The college, PES Institute of Technology (PESIT), witnessed riotous scenes later in the day and police had to be called in to control irate students. Pranay Singh, a Bihar native and third-semester electronics and communication engineering student, was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his PESIT hostel room number 101 at 6.30am. Pranay’s classmates produced before mediapersons a letter that was sent by the college to Suresh Prasad Singh, Pranay’s father, with his marksheet. Singh had been asked to meet the HoD to discuss his son’s performance. College, however, denied any pressure on Pranay to perform.
The suicide had tempers flying in the college since morning, as mournful students milled about the campus. The failure of police to bring down the boy’s body from the ceiling fan and the delay in handing over the body to his cousin, Aisha, added to the students’ anger. Tempers ran out of control once Pranay’s body was handed over to Aisha at 10am. The students pushed the police officers outside the college gate, and threw stones at glass windows on the campus. Police reinforcements were rushed and the protest brought under control around 1pm.
Founder and chairman of PES Group of Institutions, MR Doreswamy, said the college should not be blamed for the extreme step taken by a “weakhearted student”.
Engg student shifted to single room last week. Was Pranay Singh, the III semester engineering student who ended his life in his hostel room on Tuesday, contemplating suicide for some time? He was facing alleged pressure from his college, PESIT, to perform better, Pranay’s friends believe he had planned it all in advance. Pranay had requested a week ago that he be shifted from a shared room to a single one in the PESIT hostel. He committed suicide within days of moving into the new room.
After Pranay’s body was found, students alerted his local guardian and police. But the body was not removed soon, adding to frayed tempers. The protest started after Pranay’s cousin Aisha came to the hostel to receive the body. She had to wait for more than an hour before the body was brought down from the ceiling fan. Police told the students they were waiting for the officers concerned to arrive.
By then, tempers had run out of control. Students pushed the police officers out of the college and took control of the campus. They threw stones at glass windows and shattered glasses of the main office building. Hundreds of students gathered on campus and marched towards the office of the CEO, M Jawahar.
The protest could be brought under control only around 1pm, after two platoons of KSRP marched in.
HE WAS WEAK-HEARTED: COLLEGE
Founder and chairman of PES Group of Institutions MR Doreswamy said the college shouldn’t be blamed for the extreme step taken by a “weak-hearted” student. He said all tutorials and examinations conducted by the college were based on VTU directives.
“It is an unfortunate event. The student has not left behind any suicide note so it is not possible to conclude that this or that is the reason for his death. His academic report had been consistently poor. We did our best to help him in his studies but never expected him to take such an extreme step,” he said.
Curtsy: TOI
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neither he is weakhearted nor he had deeper problem but the vtu is one of the weakest universities which just sends qution papers and get answersheets.
It nevr checks what studen has written
it just checks how one has written and how much quantity one has maintained.
Based on the quantity ,marks are given
anevn the u write correctly and answer is correct ,u will loose ur mrks bcoz u havnt maitained the quanty.
This how vtu runs colz and
makes student write more instead of making them concept clearly and making them a good engineer.
Crazy vtu and crazy students.
pesit is autonomous nd has no link to vtu with respect to exams,nd y blame vtu for everything.
i truly agree for tis ….
NO ONE IN THIS WORLD WILL BORN WITH EVERYTHING..EVERY SECOND IN OUR LIFE IS LIKE EDUCATING OURSELF…
NO ONE IN THIS WORLD WILL BORN WITH EVERYTHING..EVERY SECOND IN OUR LIFE IS LIKE EDUCATING OURSELF…”I AM THE HERO FOR MY OWN LIFE STORY”
“PREFER TO BURN OUT RATHER THAN DIE RUSTING” VISHVESHWARAIAH
Here we can’t blame college administration or VTU for suicide.
In Karnataka thousand of students are studying engineering and u never heard such things from them.Most of us had got back and even I had got once but it doesn’t means that I”ll think of leaving studies or anything stupid.
After three years he had to go to real world where everyday you”ll get kicked on a$$ to perform better in addition with house hold chores and society ke punge.
If you can’t handle this much pressure and can’t lift from your failure then you are really weak hearted baby.
I know that he is not reading this
and may his soul rest in peace.
This is for those students who have somewhere same intentions.
Those idiots should analyze reason for failure and try to overcome it and not try to run away from it .
I’m hoping atleast one students of that category will understand it.
Its 100% the pressure of college.I agree that pesit’s teaching, infrastructure all r great. The guy who died is a below avg student, the department(hod) wanted to meet his parents. He would have been humiliated by his department, telling that he is not fit for BE etc etc..(i think u guyz know,how the department talks to u if u r an avg or below avg student) The coll should have handled in a different way, bcoz everyone cant take the words or humiliation. since there is no suicide note found..The main cause(what i think is) for his death is the humiliation. iam a below avg student with a year back,i know how coll treats us:( V can’t make him alive now..RIP:(
It would be pressure of the college. Once a student is bad at marks he will be constantly tortured, though you are improving. The mind set about the student remains the same.At the same time constant will power wouldn’t have lead to such mishap.
Warnings should be given at the same time, there should be some time given for him to get along.Nothing is impossible. But constant degrading will lead to such instances.. More over the parents side support wasn’t there as he was in hostel.
Intially may GOD bless your my dear friend RIP
The main problem is from the college administration and the teaching staff for the sake of better results and name of the college they always tries to put more pressure on the students irrespective of the rules by VTU. As I am a student of GNDEC Bidar ECE branch even we are facing the problems of calling to our parents in this semester Guys make a note that call to our parents will make ourselves very much depressed and will find ourselves very much guilty. and even the lecturers think themselves as if they are from IIT and so disrespectful type of talks of lecturers towards student will definitely let the student down during this peak time of studies.
So my kind request to the college administration is that provide quality of education and also they are different ways of overall development of students by MOTIVATING the students in a fruitful way.
But at-last for my dear friends Never think of this step
as they are many beautiful things in life difficulties is part of everyone life ENJOY EVERY SECOND OF LIFE
i just wanna knw one thng…………
wat r dis institutes doin……….becoz we dnt need universities or any damn college to change a horse into a horse………..we need them to motivate nd inspire the lagging students so dat they can step up nd perform……….
and all u damn ppl who call him a weakhearted or coward….i just wanna say 1 thng take a knife nd try n cut a single nerve on ur wrist……….no u cant……so dat proves dat a person who finds death peaceful than life is nt a coward……..the decision he took nd followed must hav required some guts………
AND 1 MORE THNG…….NO RULE IS BIG ENUF TO FOLLOW IF IT TAKES AWAY A YOUNG BOY OF JUST 19 YR OLD FROM HIS CRYING AND WEEPING MOTHER………
system is somewhere goin wrng……
we never knw wat the world may hav lost wid dis single incident………coz every kid is special……
guys i feel sorry for this incident.
in our life we have to analyse everything and learn from everything.we can;t change the past.And from this incident i learned that
Jo dhar gaya, wo mar gaya.
so i want all of you to learn it and “dharo matt” ok. face it whatever it comes.all the best everybody.
have a nice day
The pressure of students….i can sing a song on this..be it VTU or pesit….. Its always one sided….elgi criteria.. Dead paper clearance…internal avg….u guys hav the upper hand….what do we hav ,some lame foreing author book who is more interested to flatter his english than to make us understand the concept, i hail from 05 batch and still didnt passed out…one time i too had sucidal tendencies…. To the people incharge over there, i want to say we are the youth… We wil be the next gen to lead the nation after u….but ur more interested in ur psychopath and sadistic rituals to fail us…beside our state is andhra…which has JNTU and OU univ. Never i had heard a student flunking from their…. All i want to say..think better of us….we will giv the BEST to you
obviously the pressure is more bt still in this incident i think that there is no fault by college…..because its the responsibility of the college to force student to study….if they will not do so then weak students will pass in 8 years…..
iwe cant jst blame d college for diz….as a youth v shud hav ccourage 2 face evrytng in life…ups nd downs r common.and frm dis institutions shud atleast learn nt 2 under estimate students nd humiliate students dhos r blw avrage bt rather motivate dem…