Loud Sirens
Among the three services suicides are the highest in the IAF:
- This year, 18 airmen have taken their lives till August. In the last six years, the total figure is 166.
- Domestic problems, property disputes and marital discord have been cited as the chief reasons
- The air force has posted 57 civilian psychologists at air force stations across the country
- Senior officers and airmen are being put through awareness programmes to sensitise them
- Soft loans, marriage counselling being provided to reverse the trend
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