Recently, two students committed suicide in Kota in a span of 48 hours, a few days before the NEET exam to be held on May 5.
One of them, Bharat, wrote in his suicide note, "Forgive me Papa, forgive me, I couldn't do it this time too." Bharat, a resident of Dholpur, was preparing for the NEET entrance exam and committed suicide by hanging himself.
Bhupesh Dixit, a public health expert at the 'Educated Employment Center Managing Committee', says, "Since major entrance exams are held in the summer, April and May are high-risk months. The administration should pay more attention to all those places." Where coaching centers are operated.So far in 2024, nine students have committed suicide in the city. Last year 29 students lost their lives due to suicide.
Psychologist Eena Budhiraja holds increasing consumerism responsible for the increasing suicides in Kota. She says, “It is true that every child is talented. Everyone has different talents.Fish can swim in water, but cannot walk on land. The human brain develops in different ways. But in today's consumerist world, money is being given. In such a situation, parents want the children to choose a career where they can earn good money. This is why they often think without considering the actual talent of the child. Their child should either become a doctor or an engineer.Meanwhile, separate surveys in Kota have indicated that four out of every twenty-three students in the city are in depression. Kota has around 3000 private hostels having thousands of rooms and more than two lakh students come to Kota city for medical and engineering coaching.
Some of these aspirants left this world leaving suicide notes saying sorry for their parents, which shows the kind of pressure they were struggling with.
JEE aspirant Niharika committed suicide and left a note that read: “Sorry mom and dad, I am committing suicide because I could not succeed in JEE. I am a failure and have not been able to become a good daughter.Sorry mom and dad, but this is the only option left for me." Her brother later revealed that she was under immense pressure. Another JEE aspirant from Bhagalpur, Bihar ended her life by consuming poison. The suicide note read: "Papa,
I am unable to crack JEE and could not even muster the courage to tell you this fact. I quit.,
The list of such suicides is long and these incidents have forced everyone to wonder why children are under so much pressure. Why are they not understanding the importance of life? Why is it so important to become a doctor or an engineer? “Our education system is largely responsible for leaving students under pressure,” says Deepa Khandelwal, a mother. “There are very few career options in the humanities, you can become a teacher, but you have to There will be very little pay. Similarly, it is not so." It is easy to manage the household expenses with music, dance or photography.Civil Services Examination is also not for everyone. Medicine and engineering are lucrative careers and coaching has become essential to crack the entrance exams.”
In a recent letter to parents, Kota District Collector Ravinder Goswami said, “A child's happiness means a lot to their parents, however, this happiness should not be linked to the marks obtained in exams "
He said the problem arises when children's happiness is linked to marks obtained in exams. Goswami wrote, "Does one become successful just by passing exams? No." He urged parents to give their children a chance to improve themselves as his parents did to him when he returned home from Kota, where he stayed for PMT preparation but once Had failed.
The District Collector appealed to the parents to talk to their wards regularly, listen to them and assure them that they are the most needy and most precious to them.
Goswami also wrote a separate letter to the students, in which he said that failures give an opportunity to a person to overcome the mistakes made in life and turn failures into success. The District Collector also said that exams are the only test of life. is a phase, has no final goal and cannot determine the direction of one's life.
One of them, Bharat, wrote in his suicide note, "Forgive me Papa, forgive me, I couldn't do it this time too." Bharat, a resident of Dholpur, was preparing for the NEET entrance exam and committed suicide by hanging himself.
Bhupesh Dixit, a public health expert at the 'Educated Employment Center Managing Committee', says, "Since major entrance exams are held in the summer, April and May are high-risk months. The administration should pay more attention to all those places." Where coaching centers are operated.So far in 2024, nine students have committed suicide in the city. Last year 29 students lost their lives due to suicide.
Psychologist Eena Budhiraja holds increasing consumerism responsible for the increasing suicides in Kota. She says, “It is true that every child is talented. Everyone has different talents.Fish can swim in water, but cannot walk on land. The human brain develops in different ways. But in today's consumerist world, money is being given. In such a situation, parents want the children to choose a career where they can earn good money. This is why they often think without considering the actual talent of the child. Their child should either become a doctor or an engineer.Meanwhile, separate surveys in Kota have indicated that four out of every twenty-three students in the city are in depression. Kota has around 3000 private hostels having thousands of rooms and more than two lakh students come to Kota city for medical and engineering coaching.
Some of these aspirants left this world leaving suicide notes saying sorry for their parents, which shows the kind of pressure they were struggling with.
JEE aspirant Niharika committed suicide and left a note that read: “Sorry mom and dad, I am committing suicide because I could not succeed in JEE. I am a failure and have not been able to become a good daughter.Sorry mom and dad, but this is the only option left for me." Her brother later revealed that she was under immense pressure. Another JEE aspirant from Bhagalpur, Bihar ended her life by consuming poison. The suicide note read: "Papa,
I am unable to crack JEE and could not even muster the courage to tell you this fact. I quit.,
The list of such suicides is long and these incidents have forced everyone to wonder why children are under so much pressure. Why are they not understanding the importance of life? Why is it so important to become a doctor or an engineer? “Our education system is largely responsible for leaving students under pressure,” says Deepa Khandelwal, a mother. “There are very few career options in the humanities, you can become a teacher, but you have to There will be very little pay. Similarly, it is not so." It is easy to manage the household expenses with music, dance or photography.Civil Services Examination is also not for everyone. Medicine and engineering are lucrative careers and coaching has become essential to crack the entrance exams.”
In a recent letter to parents, Kota District Collector Ravinder Goswami said, “A child's happiness means a lot to their parents, however, this happiness should not be linked to the marks obtained in exams "
He said the problem arises when children's happiness is linked to marks obtained in exams. Goswami wrote, "Does one become successful just by passing exams? No." He urged parents to give their children a chance to improve themselves as his parents did to him when he returned home from Kota, where he stayed for PMT preparation but once Had failed.
The District Collector appealed to the parents to talk to their wards regularly, listen to them and assure them that they are the most needy and most precious to them.
Goswami also wrote a separate letter to the students, in which he said that failures give an opportunity to a person to overcome the mistakes made in life and turn failures into success. The District Collector also said that exams are the only test of life. is a phase, has no final goal and cannot determine the direction of one's life.
