{"id":218722,"date":"2022-12-16T18:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218722"},"modified":"2022-12-16T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:20:37","slug":"kotas-student-suicides-a-mismatch-between-rising-aspirations-shrinking-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kotas-student-suicides-a-mismatch-between-rising-aspirations-shrinking-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Kota\u2019s student suicides: A mismatch between rising aspirations, shrinking opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cKota\u2019s student suicides: A mismatch between rising aspirations, shrinking opportunities\u201d <\/strong>published in the <b>Indian Express <\/b>on <strong>16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 2 \u2013 Mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of vulnerable sections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About student suicides in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Recently, three students, in separate incidents, in Kota, Rajasthan had committed suicide. This highlights the <strong>pressure cooker atmosphere<\/strong> created in coaching centres.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of a large population of young people with rising aspirations and an economy with shrinking opportunities has created a public health crisis that requires urgent attention.<\/p>\n<h5>About students suicides in India<\/h5>\n<p>The National Crime Records Bureau\u2019s <strong>Accidental Deaths and Suicide in India report 2021 <\/strong>show that the number of students deaths by suicide rose by 4.5% in 2021. Students from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu committed more suicides. The report also mentioned that student suicides have been rising steadily for the last five years.<\/p>\n<h5>About short-sighted recommendations to prevent student suicides in India<\/h5>\n<p>Indian Institute of Science\u2019s reported <strong>replacing ceiling fans in hostel rooms with wall-mounted ones<\/strong> to prevent suicides.<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines issued by the Board of Intermediate Education in Andhra Pradesh in 2017 to ease the pressure on students recommended <strong>including yoga and physical exercise classes<\/strong> and <strong>maintaining a healthy student-teacher ratio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5>What can be done to reduce student suicides in India?<\/h5>\n<p>India should <strong>address the larger issue of a punishing education system<\/strong>. India should accept that the education system of today is simply not designed to support young minds or prepare them for today\u2019s economic realities.<\/p>\n<p>India should learn from past failures to <strong>address the growing crisis and take urgent steps that involve all stakeholders<\/strong> \u2014 students, parents, teachers, institutes and policy makers.<\/p>\n<p>India should fully <strong>realise the vision contained in the New Education Policy 2020<\/strong>, offering greater academic flexibility to reduce the pressure on students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cKota\u2019s student suicides: A mismatch between rising aspirations, shrinking opportunities\u201d published in the Indian Express on 16th\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS \u2013 2 \u2013 Mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of vulnerable sections. Relevance: About student suicides in India. News: Recently, three students, in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kotas-student-suicides-a-mismatch-between-rising-aspirations-shrinking-opportunities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kota\u2019s student suicides: A mismatch between rising aspirations, shrinking opportunities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-218722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704891067},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}