Our society is moving towards a terrible trend. Perhaps we are beginning to realize how degenerate a society is to the extent that horrific tendencies such as suicide become commonplace on a daily basis. In the holy Ramadan, I slept for some more time after eating Sahri with the sanctity of Fajr prayer. By then it was 9 am. I took the phone in my hand. We are going through such an eventful time that every day we have to be surprised by some news or the other. What is the effect on the mental world when starting the 'work of the day' with negative news every day in such a hopeless way! Witnessing the intolerant society's weakness, I received news of another suicide as soon as I picked up the phone. Jagannath University student Fairuz Avantika entered this increasingly long list of suicides.

The wounds of national artist Sadi Mohammed's suicide have not yet healed. Amidst this grief came the news of another suicide and that of a University student. The boy or girl who, after completing university education, is an exuberant youth who will devote himself to the building of the country with his career; The face of the society and the family will shine, whether he chose the path of suicide, after completing his studies, his dream was to become a judge!

According to what we know from media reports, Fairuz Avantika has explained the reason behind the suicide in a long post on social media. According to the news, Fairuz Sadaf Avantika, a student of the Law Department of Jagannath University (JOB), committed suicide by hanging herself at her home in Cumilla by posting a post on Facebook at around 9:30 pm on Friday (March 15). In her shared post, Avantika complained, "If I ever commit suicide, my classmate Amman Siddiqui will be solely responsible for my death and Jagannath's Assistant Proctor Deen Islam, who supports her because of her good relationship as her assistant."

In one place of that post, Avantika wrote indignantly at the role of Assistant Proctor, "Where was this man's job to be a guardian and he did not release me until my life ended."

We have already learned that the University authorities have ordered the quick arrest of the student Raihan Siddiqui Amman (Amman Siddiqui) on the charge of inciting the suicide of Fairuz Avantika. Deen Islam, the instigating teacher, has been suspended and relieved from the post of Assistant Proctor. Along with this, JnU Vice-Chancellor Sadeka Halim has also announced that she will take action against those responsible by using all the powers she has legally. But we have a simple question, before this incident, no one in the University was aware of this matter? According to common sense, surely many in the University knew about the incident but Avantika had to become such a victim because she could not cross the impenetrable barrier of the vicious circle. We don't know how many students like Avantika are willing to embrace death with such terrible inclinations!

Every time something like this happens, there is a lot of commotion everywhere. After a few days, everything is quiet, everything is normal. The way the society goes, it goes on according to its own rules. That is why the death march of Avantikas does not stop. I was shocked to find out the statistics of such unexpected deaths! In the last one year alone, 513 students of schools, colleges and Universities across the country have chosen the path of suicide. According to the information of a private organization, female students are the most in this list of suicides, which amount to 60.2 percent. And in terms of numbers, school-goers are ahead in this case. The list includes 98 University students and 48 madrasa students.

Can you imagine? Even after so many deaths, is our social-state shaking at all? Going deeper into these unexpected incidents, it is seen that most of the suicides are committed by students and neither the families nor the educational institutions were sincere enough about it. As the complaints of the aggrieved are not taken into account in most of the cases, the students have reached the peak of frustration and are committing such incidents.

We do not know how a student who is a victim of sexual abuse approaches the teacher or the concerned authorities of the educational institution for justice, how they take the side of the accused. The great decline in the moral values of teachers that we are witnessing at this time cannot be called normal at all. From madrasas to schools-colleges-even Universities, this trend is gaining momentum day by day. The University authorities have set up an inquiry committee to find out what actually happened in Avantika's case, which has been asked to report within 7 days. But in most cases of recent suicides, we don't see the real mystery unfold. As soon as a few days pass, everything seems to be buried.

Where there is a shortage of teachers qualified to teach in the schools of the country, the hope of providing counseling by keeping psychiatrists for the counseling of students who are in mental distress may be the name of despair, but to stop this trend of suicide where the wounds have started to grow, now through the issuance of a circular from the Ministry of Education, all possible remedial measures are being taken. Action should be taken on an urgent basis. Along with the government, it is time for the country's elite educators to speak out about this. If 500 students die from suicide alone in a year and no effective remedial measures are taken, it won't take long for the number to multiply. It can be said with emphasis. It is more or less known that our awareness of mental health protection is not significant, but the alarming way it has evolved to engulf the generation is alarming.

We hope that true 'exemplary punishment' is immediately ensured, along with the speedy implementation of Vice-Chancellor Sadeka Halim's promise to 'use the highest powers at hand' for instigating the suicide of Fairuz Avantika. We want to be merciful to the hyperbole we have been making about 'we have made great progress in women's empowerment', not empowerment but equality. Let all live equally with dignity. Let the society and schools be free from all kinds of suicides. Let the state try to correct this society before it becomes completely degenerate.