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Awareness Programme on "Suicide Prevention"
on 22.10.2018
The Centre in association with the Department of Psychology, Thiagarajar College, Madurai, organized a State level Students’ Seminar on the Topic, “Suicide Prevention”. Dr. D. Pandiaraja, Principal, Thiagarajar College, presided over the event. Dr. T. Rajasekar, Director, Self Financed courses, gave the inaugural address. Dr. D. Anbugeetha, Director, Women’s Studies Centre and coordinator, Department of Psychology, welcomed the gathering and briefed about the importance and the objective of the program on sensitizing the impact of Suicide prevention. P. Karuppaiah, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Organized Crime Unit, CBCID, Madurai, gave the keynote address. He expressed his concern over the fact that suicide was turning into a menace among the youngsters and requested the teachers to hold a number of counselling sessions to empower the students with the moral courage to face the struggles of life and tide over the smoothly.
In the technical session, Papers were presented on the theme of the conference and the presenters discussed their ideas on prevention of suicide. Best paper presenters were selected and prizes were awarded to them and certificate of participation was awarded to all the paper presenters. Ms. R. Ishwarya, Organizing Secretary, gave the vote of thanks.
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