Riverfront Walkway Suicide Point: With the Protection Wall on the Sabarmati River Bridge, people are now jumping off the walkway, killing 153 people in one year.

● In the last one year, 32 women and 120 men have committed suicide by jumping into the river
● The fire department’s move saved 400 lives in 7 years

The Ahmedabadis have made the Sabarmati river clean but the number of suicides in the river has not decreased. Cases of suicide have resumed in the flooded river after the sanitation campaign. In December, 12 people committed suicide by jumping into Sabarmati. Protection wall has been constructed on Sabarmati bridge. So people are now committing more suicide on the walkway. So the walk-out of the Sabarmati Riverfront now seems to have become a suicide point. In the last 12 months, 32 women and 120 men have committed suicide. These are the figures from March 2021 to April 9, 2022.

When there is solitude, people jump into the river from the walkway
The fire brigade’s rescue team found out that most people were committing suicide by jumping into the river from Ambedkar Bridge to Ellisbridge. After breaking the iron railings on all the bridges, jumping off the bridge and jumping into the river has almost stopped. But now people are committing suicide by jumping straight into the river from the walkway on the riverfront. Drownings are being reported in this situation as the fire brigade was not informed and there was no one around. In most cases this is happening.

People die for a variety of reasons, including domestic violence
All the bridges have been fitted with high iron bars by the municipal system to prevent suicide in the Sabarmati river. But now people are committing suicide by falling off the walkway. In the case of suicide, older people are bored with the disease, lonely life, harassment from family members. While women are responsible for domestic and in-laws’ harassment as well as love affairs, unemployment among the youth also leads to suicide. More bodies were found at Sardar Bridge, behind NID and at Ambedkar Bridge.

The fire department’s move saved 400 lives in 7 years
Jawan Bharat Mangela, who has been serving in the Ahmedabad Fire Brigade for 21 years, has become an angel for those drowning in the Sabarmati river. He has saved more than 300 people from drowning in the river in the last seven years. He says that before 2014, when the riverfront was under construction, there were many incidents of drowning in the river. The river rescue project was set up in 2014 at that time. Bharat Mangela has also done a commendable job in rescue work in cases of suicide or drowning in the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad.