A 18-year-old student died by suicide on Tuesday night in Kota, known to be India\u2019s education hub in Rajasthan, famous for the Medical and Engineering coaching institutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is the 22nd<\/sup> death of a medical\/engineering aspirant happened due to suicide in Kota this year and 4th<\/sup> suicide this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 18-year-old has been identified as Valmiki Jangid, an Indian Institue of Technology (IIT) aspirant from Gaya, Bihar, who was preparing for his Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) at a coaching institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jangid was staying at the Mahavir Nagar area of Kota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The case has once again brought Kota into spotlight. Students, living away from from their home for entrance preparations, taking down their lives have been a matter of great concern for a long time now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The major reason behind the deaths is students unable to handle the stress and pressure of cracking the entrance examination which is ultimately raising questions on the mental health of the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The state government has taken some preventive steps, one of them is issuing helpline number for the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a key meeting that was held with the members of the coaching institutes, hostels and stakeholder on Saturday, the local adminstration decided that to curb down the mounting cases of suicide, psychological tests of every students of the coaching institutes to be conducted every fortnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The test aims for timely detection of the suicidal tendencies among the students and could help in giving them timely counselling by experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Superitendant of Police Sharad Chowdhury gave a recommendation of forming an association of those parents of those students studying in Kota that would help them to be in contact with the officials of the district adminstration to share their ward’s problems and concerns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 18-year-old has been identified as Valmiki Jangid, an Indian Institue of Technology (IIT) aspirant from Gaya, Bihar, who was preparing for his Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) at a coaching institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":484851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[79478,153131,160098,154907,3450],"yst_prominent_words":[31415,26338,8875,11882,7080,25484,63432,86096,79474,3820,6569],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/08\/16153032\/World_Suicide_Day.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484849"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=484849"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=484849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}