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The Kolkata Metro Railway has launched an audio message, which volition beryllium played astatine respective stations on the North-South corridor, discouraging radical from ending their lives.
The inaugural was launched successful relation with an FM transmission successful the backdrop of respective termination bids on the Blue Line successful the past 3 months.
As per disposable figures, determination were 3 termination bids successful November past year, 2 successful December, 3 successful January and 2 successful February.
Of these 10 passengers who jumped onto the tracks, astir could not beryllium saved.
"Suicide is not simply a idiosyncratic decision, but a unsafe societal disease, which causes tremendous accent and hardship connected the household concerned. Please don't instrumentality immoderate utmost and hasty steps. If you are faced with immoderate superior intelligence situation situation, instantly interaction our counsellors, who are conscionable a telephone telephone distant 24x7. Their numbers are displayed successful galore posters and banners, integer show boards astatine galore parts of the platform," the dependable enactment streamed connected 107 FM Rainbow said.
It volition beryllium played done the nationalist code systems astatine stations connected the Blue Line.
The connection was recorded successful collaboration with Kolkata Metro, arsenic a antheral dependable successful Bengali implored radical to spare a thought, adjacent arsenic brushed inheritance instrumental euphony was being played to soothe nerves.
The connection further pointed retired that beingness is beautiful, having large anticipation for each idiosyncratic and ending it won't service immoderate purpose, nevertheless distraught 1 is.
"Crises tin beryllium tackled and overcome. Ending beingness tin ne'er beryllium the solution," it said.
"If anyone is overwhelmed by immoderate tendency to extremity his life, deliberation doubly and see that your beingness is important not lone for you but besides for others," the dependable connection noted.
The authorities besides said Kolkata Metro regularly conducts anti-suicide camps astatine antithetic platforms, and urged those overwhelmed by suicidal thoughts to sojourn the camps and interact with the counsellors.
A Metro Railway spokesperson said the dependable enactment volition beryllium regularly played astatine antithetic stations of the Blue Line to sensitise people, and besides alteration different commuters and metro unit to forestall idiosyncratic from taking immoderate drastic step.
(Helpline number: Lifeline Foundation, +91 033 24637401, +91 033 24637432, Monday to Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Kolkata)
