Three coaching students allegedly commit suicide in Kota, Rajasthan

Credent Tv: Kota, which is well-known for its coaching facilities that offer classes to prepare students for difficult engineering and medical examinations, has a history of having a high suicide rate.

Jaipur: On Monday, three students in Kota, Rajasthan, who were taking competitive exams, allegedly committed suicide. They were 16, 17, and 18 years old.
Ankush and Ujjwal, two of the students, shared a room and were close friends from Bihar. While the other was studying to ace the medical college admission exams, the first was getting ready for his admittance into an engineering institution. There are no known suicide notes at this time.

The third student, Pranav, travelled to Kota from Madhya Pradesh to study for the NEET, also known as the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), which is an entrance exam for pre-medicine.

Over the past few years, Kota, the centre of private coaching centres that offer training to prepare students for competitive engineering and medical tests, has experienced an alarming increase in suicide fatalities. The fatalities bring to light the intense pressure placed on children and teenagers to succeed and get into the top colleges in India.

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Those students, including many who study for these difficult exams while finishing their final two years of school, lament the severe stress they experience.

Long class sessions, demanding homework assignments, and intensely competitive internal exams that determine which students are promoted or demoted among the several “batches” are all known for pushing students to the limit at the coaching hub. The best professors are assigned to the top cohorts.

The administration had established a suicide hotline where concerned students might call for counselling in reaction to the extensive media coverage of Kota’s teen suicides and self-harm instances in the past.

In 2016, a student who had passed the highly sought IIT-JEE exam called for the closure of all tutoring facilities before jumping to her death.

In order to lessen stress among students at such institutions, the Rajasthan government established a state-level committee in 2019 to propose legislation regulating coaching centres. The manuscript has not yet been made available to the public.