Bengal NEET aspirant ends life in Kota

Kota: In an unfortunate incident, a 20-year-old NEET aspirant from West Bengal preparing for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in Kota allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his rented accommodation on Tuesday. 

According to a recent PTI report, the police recovered no suicide note from the scene. Hence, the reason for the drastic step cannot be determined until a thorough investigation is conducted. 

The deceased is a native of West Bengal’s Birhum district who had been preparing for the medical entrance exam NEET at a coaching institute in Kota for around a year. He had been living the rented accommodation in Wauf Nagar since July this year.

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Some other students of coaching institutes also lived in the same house.

The student was last spotted in the afternoon hours of Monday. When he did not come out of his room till 8 pm, his friends called him but he did not open the door. Following this, they informed the house owner, who called the police, Circle Inspector at Dadabari police station Rajesh Pathak said.

Police rushed to the spot and broke the door open to find the youth hanging, he said, adding, “No suicide note was found in the room and the reason behind the extreme step is yet to be ascertained.” 

Post-mortem will be done after his parents arrive, the police officer said. The parents have been informed about the unfortunate incident and until their arrival, the body is currently in the MBS Hospital mortuary.

This is the 26th case of suicide by a coaching student this year in Kota.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported about the Rajasthan government's guidelines for coaching institutes regarding the rising suicide cases of coaching students.

A nine-page guideline was issued days after the state government set up a 15-member committee headed by Education Secretary Bhawani Singh Detha to examine the issue after record student suicides were reported in the coaching hub.

"Coaching institutes should not encourage students below Class 9 to take admission. They should give admission after screening tests and counselling students to assess their interests. If any registered student below Class 9 wants to leave, the institute should provide a full refund in 120 days," the guidelines said.

There was a set of other recommendations for institutes to ease mental pressure on students such as facial recognition to prevent proxy attendance, mandatory weekly holidays, no exams on the day after a holiday and a code of conduct for faculty and hostels.

The guidelines stated that legal action would be taken against coaching institutes found violating the code of conduct. The regulations also mentioned a monitoring cell for the institutes to be set up in Kota and Sikar.

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