LUCKNOW, Aug. 1 -- From this academic session, all technical universities and its affiliated private engineering colleges in Uttar Pradesh will deploy psychologists and counsellors to help their students overcome depression and any suicidal tendency which often grip modern day youth either due to pure academic pressure or emotional outburst.

There are three state technical universities in the state. AKTU in Lucknow, Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU) in Kanpur (autonomous in nature) and Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur. Besides, there are 800 private colleges that are affiliated to AKTU in addition to 15 odd government engineering colleges.

In October last year, a B Tech final year student of Government ...