Bihar IAS body mulls anti-stress sessions for young officers after Buxar DM's suicide

Mukesh Kumar Pandey, a 2012 batch IAS officer, committed suicide on railway tracks in Ghaziabad.

The Bihar unit of the Indian Administrative Service Association is mulling over the need for anti-stress sessions to prevent young officers from killing themselves following the alleged suicide by a Bihar-cadre IAS officer in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday evening.

Mukesh Kumar Pandey, a 2012 batch IAS officer, committed suicide on railway tracks in Ghaziabad. A purported suicide note was also recovered from the spot. In the note it was written that Pandey, a 2012-batch IAS officer, was fed up with his life and lost his "belief on human existence".

"Suggestions have come from some senior officers like Ms Amita Paul (since superannuated) that we should talk to young officers under stress and ask them to share their feelings, so that they let out their pent up emotions. The idea is to identify young officers under stress and prevent them from taking such an extreme step," Hindustan Times quoted Principal secretary, forest, and secretary of the association's Bihar unit, Vivek Kumar Singh as saying.

The IAS Officers Association have organised a condolence meeting, at the IAS Bhawan in Patna and the Bihar Bhawan in New Delhi on Friday evening.

Earlier, in his condolence message, Nitish Kumar said, "Buxar DM Mukesh Pandey's death is a heart-wrenching incident. He was a great administrator. May his soul rest in peace."

(With agency inputs)