We are losing approximate one million human lives a year worldwide due to suicidal deaths. It is not only the case of death and births subject, which keeps statistics of human counts. September10, an international suicide prevention day .International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) a world health organization’s help group is seriously working on this subject. Now days we are passing through commercialization/Industrialization/capitalist regime, western countries has experienced it much earlier then us. They are facing bio products of this so called revolution as suicidal syndrome in these societies.developed nations has high suicidal death rate than those developing nations which are passing through commercialization/Industrialization but rate are on rising side for developing nations if not minded will lead towards infinity.
As our Indian society is going through these conditions most affected are those urban areas where commercialization/Industrialization has taken place. Cut throat competitions in every sphere of life lead to mental pressure on these citizens. When our mind could not able to cope up with these men made pressures resulted into a suicide. It is not merely a criminal physical action but result of mental malfunction, which comes into health domain. It should be treated as well established man made disease like HIV/AIDS. Today its occurrence is approximate one million worldwide but it is still more lives lost than
 In all wars and homicides worldwide every year.
 Three times the catastrophic loss of human lives in the tragic Tsunami disaster.

. One suicide represents

 A lost life, lost talents, lost creativity, lost contribution made to society.
 A lost son or daughter, a lost father or mother, a lost friend or colleague.
 A wound that does not easily heal in those who left behind.
The health administrators in developing nations are not giving attention on this especially in country like India and china are in transformation era of commercialization /Industrialization/capitalist regime in check list. As in case of HIV/AIDS origin was in western part of globe (developed nations). It remained confined till it was in this part of world. When it reached in Asia the population basket of world it becomes manifold in its number in few years. Similar to this suicidal syndrome which is resultant of commercialization/Industrialization/capitalist regime, western countries has experienced it much earlier then us. It is now time to keep check on this syndrome otherwise HIV/AIDS type threat to human races is in waiting in coming year in our part of world.
Last not least is national level initiatives to fight against suicidal syndrome at medical and social fronts should be included in national health programme.
Why prevention of suicide is everybody business?
Answer to this is of English poet John Donne
“No man is an island, entire of itself…..any man’s death diminish me, because I am involve in mankind; and therefore never send to whom the bell toll; it toll for thee”.

Dinesh Singh Rawat
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Process them at the source - that’s the best way to recycle garbage. But, how to achieve this goal? We can not afford installing complicated garbage processing plants in every nook and corner of our cities and towns. The ever increasing quantity of accumulated waste is really a headache to the local governing bodies. The strategy adopted by the Kalamassery Municipality in Ernakulam District of Kerala is a practical model to solve the problem of domestic garbage.

The decentralized garbage processing plants based on the biological methods was the core idea of waste management in the Kalamassery Municipality. For this the support came from the Ministry of Non Conventional Energy.

Bio-gas Production

The biggest attraction of these domestic plants is the bio gas produced from it. This will help the family to reduce its LPG bill by 50 per cent. In this era of rocketing petroleum prices, garbage plants which are capable of providing fuel to the kitchen are really a boon. As the very first step, the Municipal authorities identified 73 beneficiaries for this project in Kalamasserry. And this local body provided Rs 4,000 each to every domestic plant to encourage them into this new venture. This money was provided from the plan fund of the Municipality. Rs. 2,700 each from the Ministry of Non Conventional Energy was also provided to this project. The plants were installed in the residential premises by Biotech, a nodal agency of the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources. This year the Municipality has identified 150 houses for installing this domestic garbage plant.

Functioning of these domestic garbage processing plants is based on the method of biological degradation. A bacteria culture is deposited in the storage area of the plant while commissioning. These bacteria work to degrade the waste materials put into the plant. Fish wastes, vegetable wastes, food left over from the house, water used for cleaning and preparation of food etc may be deposited in this plant. This may be done a maximum of two or three times a day. This when treated with the above method produces bio gas. This bio gas is passed through a special tube attached and provided to the burner installed in the kitchen. The waste produced by a four member family can generate bio-gas roughly for two hours. Heat energy produced is 75-80 per cent compared to the LPG. And in practical sense it is enough for domestic cooking purpose. The water remains in the plant after producing bio-gas is also useful. It may be used as bio-manure. Treating this water with a USAB digester will ensure that it meets the standards set by the pollution control board.

Kalamassery is the first Municipality in Kerala which came forward to implement this project with total involvement from the people. The District Panjayat of Ernakulam has already installed 3000 units of domestic garbage processing plant in various areas of the district. Kumbalangy—the Gram Panjayat selected as the model tourism village— is the panjayat which has commissioned maximum number of plants.

Handling Waste from Public Places

Other than the domestic plants, efforts are being made to use the same technology to handle waste from the public places also. The waste recycling plant commissioned at Kadakkal Gram Panjayat in Kollam District is an example for that. The plant set up with a cost of Rs 16 lakhs from the Kerala Development Project is used to handle the waste from the Kadakkal town, Kadakkal market and nearby areas.

Biomethane Gas

The waste is recycled here to produce electricity. It is having a capacity to recycle one tonne of degradable waste and to produce 3 Kilowatt electricity. This power is used to light 120 lamps in the nearby park, fire station and the Kadakkal memorial. Mainly fish and slaughter wastes are treated in this plant. The biomethane gas produced here is passed through bio-filters before reaching the power generator. A bio incinerator also is operated with the power generated here. It burns off the non-decomposed wastes.

No doubt, these decentralized waste recycling plants will be a boon to the thickly populated towns and cities. On the other hand steps to create awareness on reducing the creation of wastes also should be initiated by the local administrative bodies