Jaipur:
A 20-year-old scholar learning 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 dying 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 word stating that he felt he wouldn’t be capable to 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, nevertheless it’s past me. Sorry,” the word learn.
Lodha, who was from Guna in Madhya Pradesh, had moved to Kota final Could to organize for JEE.
He was good in research and had himself insisted on coming to Kota for teaching, mentioned his elder brother Ajay. His uncle, who got here to Kota to gather his physique, mentioned they spoke to him on daily basis however he by no means expressed any stress about research.
“He all the time mentioned every part was good and going nicely. ‘I’m busy with preparations’ is what he advised us. The final time we spoke to him was the night earlier than the incident,” mentioned his uncle.
The police, too, recommend it seems to be a case of examination stress.
“It seems to be stress. We’ll write to the administration to take motion in opposition to the PG lodging because the room the place the scholar died didn’t have an anti-hanging gadget within the fan,” mentioned 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 gadget put in within the fan.
His father Babloo Prajapat mentioned he had spoken to his son earlier within the afternoon and that Neeraj was planning to return house by the night prepare. 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 gadget put in within the fan.
Rajasthan’s Kota, the teaching capital of the nation, welcomes college students from completely different states to organize for aggressive entrance exams. The draw back, nevertheless, is an increase in suicide instances amongst college students that poses a problem to the counsellors in addition to district administration.
Final yr, the variety of suicides in Kota had come down by 38% to 17 as in comparison with 24 in 2023.