Happiness class has help to reduced the number of suicides case among students claimed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kajriwal.
Happiness Utsav has been marked 4 years since the introduction.
Speaking at the Happiness Programme CM Kajriwal said,” in today’s time, students face immense pressure, especially academic pressure. Parents also pressure them if their results are not upto the mark. They even compare their performance with other students. This has resulted in suicide case as such a young age. Happiness Class has changed that” said Kajiriwal.
Happiness class was first started as school curriculum in 2018 in New Delhi. Students from Nursery to class VIII are enrolled for Happiness course in Delhi schools.
The learning outcomes have 4 goals which include becoming mindful and attentive, development critical thinking, demonstrating empathy, coping with anxiety and stress, Developing a confident and pleasant personality.
Delhi government claimed citing data that cases of suicides and depression has come down due to
Happiness classes.
Happiness clss has been instrumental in bringing down suicide case and depression.
As in Assam suicide case and depression has been incresing day by day. In order to reduce such suicide case similar strategy can be adopted in Assam.
According to the data till date Sikkim is recorded as the highest suicide case in Northeast state (42.5).
In India Maharashtra has reported the highest number of suicides (15,184) accounting for 12.4% of total suicides followed by Andhra Pradesh (14,882) accounting for 12.1%.
