The Kota district administration has claimed that there was a 50 per cent decline within the variety of suicides by college students this 12 months as in comparison with 2023 on this teaching hub of Rajasthan recognized for getting ready college students for IIT-JEE entrance exams.
Nonetheless, no particular breakdown of the numbers has been offered by the officers.
“Compared to final 12 months, the suicide fee amongst teaching college students has decreased by 50 per cent this 12 months, which is a major determine when it comes to the efforts yielding outcomes. We anticipate this development to proceed sooner or later,” Kota Collector Ravindra Goswami advised PTI in a short interview.
Kota witnessed 17 circumstances of suicides by teaching college students in 2024, in comparison with 26 such circumstances in 2023, as per studies.
In line with Goswami, the decline in suicide circumstances might be attributed to strict compliance with pointers for teaching institutes and hostels underneath the vigilance of the district administration.
Different measures, corresponding to gate-keeper coaching for hostel wardens based mostly on WHO norms and the implementation of SOS Assist providers, have additionally contributed to the discount in suicide circumstances.
Common interactive classes with teaching college students via occasions like ‘Dinner with Collector’ and ‘Samwad,’ in addition to the deployment of the Kalika Squad for girls’s security and the security of woman aspirants, have performed a job on this change, Goswami added.
The district collector mentioned he interacted with over 25,000 teaching college students this 12 months via occasions like ‘Dinner with Collector’ and ‘Samwad,’ the place he addressed their issues.
Nonetheless, trade stakeholders have identified that enterprise has slowed down for teaching centres and hostels in Kota following detrimental publicity over pupil suicides, new pointers regulating teaching centres, and the growth of teaching manufacturers to different cities.
The variety of college students in Kota has fallen to 85,000 to 1 lakh this 12 months, down from the standard 2-2.5 lakh, resulting in a discount in annual revenues — from Rs 6,500-7,000 crore to Rs 3,500 crore, they mentioned.
Goswami additionally talked about the launch of a programme referred to as ‘Kota Cares’, which reaffirms the dedication to the well-being and security of teaching college students.
The three-day Kota Mahotsav, which concluded on Wednesday, aimed toward providing leisure whereas showcasing Kota as a vacationer metropolis with a wealthy cultural heritage, he mentioned.
Goswami emphasised that the ‘Kota Cares’ programme highlights that the town has provided teaching to over one crore college students from throughout the nation, enjoying a major position of their lives, whatever the careers they pursue.
The programme additionally includes inviting Kota alumni — former college students who’ve studied within the metropolis — to work together with the present aspirants and reassure them that the town now affords higher services and an improved setting, he mentioned.
In the meantime, Goswami has written to the dad and mom of teaching college students, extending his New 12 months greetings and reaffirming Kota’s dedication to the general improvement and security of their youngsters.
“I guarantee you that Kota is totally dedicated to the general improvement and security of scholars,”
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