“JEE Exams Past Me”: 2nd Suicide In 24 Hours In Teaching Hub Kota
Jaipur:
A 20-year-old scholar finding out in Kota to crack the Joint Entrance Examination, or the engineering entrance take a look at, died by suicide in his room on Wednesday. His demise follows the suicide case of one other JEE aspirant, a 19-year-old who was discovered hanging in his hostel room the earlier night.
Abhishek Lodha, 20, left a notice stating that he felt he wouldn’t be capable of clear the JEE, which is necessary to get into the nation’s high engineering schools. “I am unable to check. I’m making ready for the JEE exams, but it surely’s past me. Sorry,” the notice learn.
Lodha, who was from Guna in Madhya Pradesh, had moved to Kota final Might to organize for JEE.
He was good in research and had himself insisted on coming to Kota for teaching, stated his elder brother Ajay. His uncle, who got here to Kota to gather his physique, stated they spoke to him day-after-day however he by no means expressed any stress about research.
“He all the time stated every part was good and going effectively. ‘I’m busy with preparations’ is what he instructed us. The final time we spoke to him was the night earlier than the incident,” stated his uncle.
The police, too, counsel it seems to be a case of examination stress.
“It seems to be stress. We’ll write to the administration to take motion towards the PG lodging because the room the place the scholar died didn’t have an anti-hanging machine within the fan,” stated Mukesh Meena, Vigyan Nagar police station in-charge.
The night earlier than, Neeraj from Haryana’s Mahendragarh was discovered hanging from the ceiling fan in his hostel room. This regardless of an anti-hanging machine put in within the fan.
His father Babloo Prajapat stated he had spoken to his son earlier within the afternoon and that Neeraj was planning to come back house by the night practice. His youthful son can be in Kota making ready for the NEET, or the medical entrance examination.
Calling for a good investigation into the case, Mr Prajapat has questioned how his son died by hanging regardless of an anti-hanging machine put in within the fan.
Rajasthan’s Kota, the teaching capital of the nation, welcomes college students from totally different states to organize for aggressive entrance exams. The draw back, nonetheless, is an increase in suicide circumstances amongst college students that poses a problem to the counsellors in addition to district administration.
Final 12 months, the variety of suicides in Kota had come down by 38% to 17 as in comparison with 24 in 2023.
