Thane: UPSC aspirant ends life by jumping from 8th floor of building

A 28yearold civil services aspirant allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the eight floor of a building in Thane city of Maharashtra the police said on Sunday reported the PTIThe incident took place at around 830 pm on Saturday in Vartak Nagar area of Thane the officials saidThe police found a suicide note in the mans house wherein he apologised to his family members saying he could not fulfil everyones high hopes and was finding it difficult to survive in this world an official from Vartak Nagar police station said according to the PTIThe official said that according to the mans friends he might have been depressed as he could not clear the Union Public Service Commission UPSC exam and hence took the extreme step as per the PTIThe man jumped from his house located on the eighth floor of a housing complex and fell on the ground He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead he saidThe police found a suicide note in his house in which he stated Its difficult for me to survive in this world sorry to my parents brothers and everyone I couldnt fulfil the very high hopes I loved them and nobody is responsible for my death the PTI reported on SundayThe body was sent to a government hospital for postmortemThe Vartak Nagar police have registered a case of accidental death the official saidMaharashtra Civic body starts control room to improve safety of students in schoolsMeanwhile the Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation MBMC in Maharashtras Thane district has launched a new Central School Control Room to bolster the safety of students by monitoring CCTV footage across the civic schools officials said the PTI reported on SaturdayThe move comes after two fouryearold girls were sexually assaulted allegedly by a male attendant in the washroom of a school in Badlapur area of the district last monthThe facility located at the Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar Auditorium in Mira Bhayander area is designed to monitor CCTV footage across municipal schools to enhance student safety a civic release said on SaturdayMunicipal Commissioner Sanjay Katkar said the control room which can monitor nearly 1000 CCTV cameras is equipped with advanced technology and a UPS generator backup It will oversee footage from 200 cameras installed in 36 municipal schools with approximately 10000 studentsThe control room promises to address security concerns proactively and provide a secure learning environment for students parents and school staffInitially focusing on municipal schools the initiative plans to include private institutions in the future the release said the PTI reportedwith PTI inputs