India’s atomic research centres saw 7 suicides this year
May 5th, 2010 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 5 (IANS) As many as seven scientists and employees of India’s reputed atomic research centres committed suicide this year, Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan said Wednesday.
Four of the seven scientists and employees who committed suicide were from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Titas Pal, scientific officer of BARC, Trombay, committed suicide March 3 this year. Ashutosh Sharma, another scientific officer of the same institute, killed himself March 8.
Subhash Sonaji Sonawane and Akshay P. Chavan, employees of BARC, committed suicides on April 23 and 30 respectively.
Anantha Narayan, scientific officer of Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, committed suicide Feb 15. M. Tirumala Prasad Tenka of the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, killed himself April 10 this year.
In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Chavan said: “All the cases have been reported to the nearest police station and the police are conducting investigations. The scientists are employees of the department are provided with excellent living conditions and career opportunities.”
In 2009, there were two suicides in research centres.
- IAEA chief Yukiya Amano to visit Mumbai, Kalpakkam - Jan 14, 2011
- Atomic department scientist commits suicide - Apr 11, 2010
- Conference on strategic electronics at Hyderabad - Nov 23, 2011
- Former BARC scientist commits suicide - Apr 29, 2011
- BARC woman scientist found hanging at home - Mar 04, 2010
- Young nuclear scientist found dead in his Kalpakkam quarters - Apr 24, 2012
- Asian nuclear conference starts Monday - Oct 09, 2010
- 22 suicides in atomic energy department in five years - Dec 02, 2010
- Body of missing nuclear centre scientist found - Feb 26, 2010
- BARC woman scientist found dead (Lead) - Mar 04, 2010
- 86 percent work on Kalpakkam N-plant complete: Official - Apr 30, 2012
- India committed to fast breeder reactor programme - Oct 10, 2010
- Nuclear scientist P.K. Iyengar dead (Lead) - Dec 21, 2011
- Nuclear scientist goes missing in Tamil Nadu - Feb 25, 2010
- Chetal is new chief of IGCAR - May 01, 2011
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