Kota: Two students ends life in 6 hrs taking grim suicide tally to 23 for the year; Raj govt asks centres to halt tests

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Suicides in Kota: Two more students surrendered to the mounting pressure to perform well and toxic competitive environment in Kota. Two teenagers preparing for NEET exam died by suicide in Kota on Sunday. With this, the grim tally of students suicide in Kota reached 23 for the year.

To curb the rising cases of suicides, Rajasthan government has also asked coaching centres to halt tests and exams. It is worth noting, that the number is the highest since 2015. It was since that year, the state government began keeping a track record of college aspirants who die by suicide.

It is worth noting that six of the 23 deaths took place in August only. It has prompted the administration on Sunday to issue an order to all coaching centres and institutes to suspend testing for two months. On Sunday, a 16-year-old boy from Maharashtra died by jumping off the sixt floor of his coaching institute at Vigyran Nagar area.

“The teen took the extreme step at his coaching institute after appearing for a scheduled weekly test in the afternoon," circle officer Dharam Veer Singh told HT. Within six hours, another 18-year-old boy from Bihar ended his life by hanging himself to the cieling fan in his room. “The teen from Bihar had been staying with his sister and a cousin at a rented apartment in the Kunadi area.

His siblings found him hanging from the fan in his own room this evening after breaking open the door when he didn’t respond to repeated knocks," the station house officer (SHO) of the Kunadi police station Ganga Sahay Sharma told HT. He added that the victim was also taken to the hospital where he succumbed to his injury. Both the students were preparing for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, or NEET.