Young people from across India go to the city of Kota for tuition to help them pass entrance exams to elite colleges.
Coaching centres in the northern Indian city of Kota are facing tighter regulations after a rise in the number of student suicides. BBC Hindi's Vineet Khare has been talking to pupils who have travelled to Kota to receive tuition to help them pass entrance exams for elite colleges and found many feel intense pressure to succeed.
Results of individual students in Kota are plastered across billboards - new guidelines recommend this should not continue Other students also tell me about the hardship of living alone, high parental expectations, peer pressure, cut-throat competition and 14-hour-days. More than 100 students in Kota have taken their lives in the past 10 years, including at least 25 this year - the highest ever in a single year, according to police data.It's not clear why she took her own life.
On 29 September it issued guidelines which include not encouraging student admissions below class nine and not making test results public. One teacher tells me the number of children in a class in a coaching centre can be very high - up to 300 - and sometimes teachers don't know the individual names of their pupils, which can leave children feeling isolated."The capacity of post-Covid students to withstand stress is less than before," Nitin Vijay, the managing director of one of India's leading coaching centres Motion Education tells me. "But this will improve with time," he insists.
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