“And please will the Government of India, the HRD ministry do something about these coaching institutes. They suck and should be shut down as soon as possible.”
Kriti’s final wish is unlikely to be heard. In her five-page-long suicide note, published in the Hindustan Times, the 17-year-old reveals how she was on the edge for most part of the two years that she spent at Kota’s Vibrant Academy.
The 130-odd coaching institutes have evolved to become a part of an estimated Rs 300 crore unrecognised and unregulated industry. It would unfair to blame the coaching institutes alone for the spate of suicides, but the fact remains that they were a common link between the 24 students who killed themselves in the last sixteen months.
The Quint lists five ways in which the coaching institutes have sent students over the edge by projecting unrealistic ambitions on to students, many of whom can’t afford to be there.
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Why Kota Kills: Is the Education Hub a Deathtrap?
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