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Rajasthan: 16-year-old NEET aspirant hangs self in Kota
The incident took place on Tuesday night, Devesh Bhardwaj, an officer from the Vigyan Nagar police station, informed further, adding that the victim was identified as 16-year-old Richa Singh.
Kota: A medical aspirant preparing for the NEET (National Eligibility and Entrance Test) allegedly hanged herself, an officer of the nearby Vigyan Nagar police station informed on Wednesday.
The incident took place on Tuesday night, Devesh Bhardwaj, an officer from the Vigyan Nagar police station, informed further, adding that the victim was identified as 16-year-old Richa Singh.
Rajasthan | “A coaching student, preparing for NEET, hanged herself in Kota. She was a resident of Ranchi, Jharkhand,” Devesh Bhardwaj, SHO, Vigyan Nagar police station, Kota city says.
— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) September 13, 2023
She had been staying at a hostel at the Electronic Complex in Kota where she was preparing for the all-India medical entrance exam, the officer said, adding that she hailed from Ranchi, Jharkhand.
Earlier, in August, Rajasthan Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas had voiced concern over rising suicide cases among students at coaching institutes in Kota, saying that the tutorials are run with the sole purpose of making money.
#WATCH | Rajasthan: On the Kota student suicide case, Rajasthan Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas says," I agree that coaching managers of Rajasthan have a lot of money but they cannot threaten students on that basis…I would say to parents that their children are not… pic.twitter.com/vbrfRGJXFn
— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) August 28, 2023
Khachariyawas termed these coaching centres as ‘Mafia’, urging the Congress government to act strictly against them.
In a similar incident, a 16-year-old student who was preparing for the NEET for admission to undergraduate medical courses allegedly died by suicide at his coaching institute in Kota on August 27, police said.
The deceased, identified as Avishkar from Maharashtra, jumped to his death from the 6th floor of the building housing the coaching centre.
It was the 23rd such incident reported this year, according to sources.
Amid the rising suicide cases among students in Kota, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot recently put together a committee, which was tasked with looking into such cases and filing a report at the earliest.
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