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Kota claims another victim: Engineering student commits suicide

FP Staff  Jul 6, 2016 17:12 IST

An engineering student in Kota committed suicide late Tuesday night, by jumping from his hostel building, reported News18. 

The student, identified only as Nikhil, hailed from Bhagalpur in Bihar. He was a student at Allen institute.

This is not the first time a student has committed suicide in Kota, the hub of coaching institutes who train youngsters for IIT and medical examinations.

According to NDTV, in May, 17-year-old Keshav Meena, hanged himself after studying for three years and appearing for his medical entrance exam. In the same month, a BTech final year student committed suicide by ingesting poison.

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Nirmal Yogi, a 17-year-old IIT aspirant, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan using a towel in his rented room in Mahaveer Nagar area.

On 28 April, Kirti, a 17-year-old student who had been studying for the IIT-JEE exams for the past two years in Kota, jumped to her death from the fifth floor of her residence. She wrote in her four-page long suicide note that coaching institutes should be shut down by the government, adding that she wanted to join NASA as a scientist and was not interested in engineering, despite scoring 144 in IIT-JEE mains.

The rising number of suicides has drawn the attention of Rajasthan officials. NDTV reported that Collector Ravi Kumar Surpur wrote a letter addressed to the parents of all students enrolled in coaching classes in Kota to "not to force their expectations and dreams on their children".

Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh had recently said a body should be formed to regulate coaching institutes. "The body should also decide the admission procedure to these institutes and direct them to reduce the pressure on students," he had said.

With inputs from PTI

Student Commits Suicide In Kota After Taking Medical Entrance, 5th Death This Year -NDTV

Student Commits Suicide In Kota After Taking Medical Entrance, 5th Death This Year

Cities | Reported by Harsha Kumari Singh | Updated: May 10, 2016 10:06 IST

Keshav Meena, a farmer's son, had been studying at a coaching institute in Kota for the past three years.

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HIGHLIGHTS

1. Poor performance in NEET suspected to be reason for 17-year-old's suicide
2. Keshav Meena had spent the last 3 years studying at a coaching institute
3. This is the fifth suicide by a student in Kota this year

Two more suicides have been reported in Rajasthan's Kota, the students' coaching hub that has made headlines for deaths linked to the immense pressure of doing well in exams.

17-year-old Keshav Meena, the son of a farmer, hanged himself at his hostel on Saturday night. He had studied at a coaching institute for three years and had sat for his medical entrance exam on May 1, the police said.

No suicide note was found in his room.

The police suspect he was upset about his performance in the medical entrance exam or NEET.

Another boy died on Saturday. He was a final year student of B.Tech and had taken poison on Thursday.

Last month, a 17-year-old girl jumped off a fifth floor flat in the city a day after learning that she had cleared the IIT entrance exam. The teen didn't want to study engineering, the police found during investigations.

There have been six suicides this year in the small desert town, nearly 250 km from Jaipur, which offers a range of coaching institutes to prep students for the IIT and medical entrance exams.

A senior administration official, Collector Ravi Kumar Surpur, sent a letter last week to the parents of the 1.5 lakh students who are enrolled for coaching in Kota, urging them "not to force their expectations and dreams on their children". In his five-page letter, he wrote, "Let them do what they want and are able to do".

Seventeen students taking coaching committed suicide last year, after which guidelines to coaching institutes to check such deaths were initiated.

The district administration has also decided to ask students to share feedback on the main causes of their stress, and how they usually cope with it. Officials have also met with those running coaching institutes for discussions on how to ensure the mental and emotional equilibrium of students.

Two more students commit suicide in Kota, poor performance in exam suspected

Two more students commit suicide in Kota, poor performance in exam suspected

One of the deceased called his family and informed he was "going to heaven".

Two students allegedly committed suicide in Kota after they performed poorly in the exams, police said on Monday.

18-year-old Keshav Meena alias Monu, resident of Harinagar in Khatoli town of the district, hanged himself from the ceiling fan of his rented room in Mahaveernagar Extension area, a police personnel said.

The police broke into his room this morning on being informed by the landlord and found his body, they said, adding Meena was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead.

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Meena had been living in Kota for about a year and was preparing for medical entrance test at a coaching institute. He had appeared for NEET on May 1, the police personnel said. No suicide note was recovered from the room. It is suspected that poor performance in NEET exam is likely to be the reason behind suicide, police said.

Investigation in the case is underway and the body has been handed over to family members after postmortem, they said.

On Thursday, a final year student of B.Tech had consumed poison in his room and succumbed during treatment at a hospital on Saturday.

Avanish Meena (22), a resident of Hingoniya village in Kanwas Thesil in Kota, consumed poison in Subashnagar II area of the city, Sub-Inspector Ramkishan said.

The deceased had reportedly not performed well in one of his papers and was scheduled to appear for the next exam on Thursday but he missed it and consumed poison, the sub-inspector said.

He said the victim had called his family and informed he was “going to heaven”. The body has been handed over to the family members after postmortem, Ramkishan said.

This is the eight suicide by a student in Kota in 2016. In 2015, the number of suicide cases by students taking coaching were 19, following which guidelines to coaching institutes to check such deaths were initiated.

Recently, Kota district collector Ravi Kumar Surpur had written an emotional letter to parents of over 1.50 lakh students in coaching institutes here, asking them not to force their expectations on the children.

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