Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday (September 22) urged educational institutions to incorporate stress management lessons into their curricula to help students build inner strength. Sitharaman’s remarks followed the tragic death of 26-year-old Chartered Accountant (CA) Anna Sebastian Perayil,

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has called for stress management lessons and practicing divinity to develop inner resilience, following the death of a young Chartered Accountant employed with Ernst & Young India.

The Congress attacked Sitharaman for her comments saying “the ruling regime” and the FM “can only see the pain of corporate giants” and “not the pain of the hardworking and toiling young generation”.

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday, in an apparent reference to the recent death of a young CA professional employed with Ernest and Young (EY), called for “stress management lessons” in colleges and universities.

While speaking about the tragic death of Ernest and Young's (EY) former employee Anna Sebastian Perayil apparently due to work pressure, India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday (September 22) called out the colleges and universities to provide “stress management lessons” to the students.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has called for stress management lessons to be imparted by colleges and universities that will help increase the students’ inner strength, comments made in apparent reference to the death of a young CA professional employed with EY that came under sharp criticism from opposition Congress which described her remarks “outright cruel.