Guwahati, 30 January: JEE aspirant, an 18 year-old girl student died by suicide in Rajasthan’s coaching hub Kota, She was preparing for JEE Mains, hanged herself in the room of her house in the Shiksha Nagari area of Kota. She left a suicide note from the student’s room suggests that she was stressed due to her studies she wrote, ‘Mummy, Papa, I can’t do JEE’. Niharika called herself “the worst daughter” and said it was “her last option”. She took the extreme step two days before her examination that was scheduled to be held on January 31..
This is the second suicide in Kota in nearly a week in 2024. Earlier, a 19-year-old student from Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad preparing for the all-India pre-medical entrance test was found dead in his hotel room in the city on January 23. Data provided by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) says that 13,000 students died by suicide in 2023. 28 students died by suicide in Rajasthan Kota only.