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Jyoti: /* Suicides, pressures, depression */

2023-09-06T19:30:42Z

‎Suicides, pressures, depression

Jyoti: /* The coaching economy */

2023-09-06T19:27:29Z

‎The coaching economy

Pdewan at 11:36, 27 August 2023

2023-08-27T11:36:51Z

Pdewan: /* Why Kota is so killing */

2023-08-27T11:25:41Z

‎Why Kota is so killing

Jyoti: /* The coaching institutes of Kota */

2021-01-20T06:49:58Z

‎The coaching institutes of Kota

Jyoti: /* The coaching institutes of Kota */

2018-02-16T12:07:13Z

‎The coaching institutes of Kota

Jyoti: /* Sex, sleep-deprivation, loneliness, weight loss, acidity, anxiety/ 2018 */

2018-01-31T20:54:02Z

‎Sex, sleep-deprivation, loneliness, weight loss, acidity, anxiety/ 2018

Jyoti: /* Health issues with students */

2018-01-31T20:51:40Z

‎Health issues with students

Jyoti: /* Bihar Tiger Force */

2016-10-14T10:56:11Z

‎Bihar Tiger Force

Jyoti at 10:08, 11 October 2016

2016-10-11T10:08:01Z

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 Meanwhile, jolted by the serial suicides, the district administration is also awakening to its responsibility. Kota collector Ravi Kumar, says, “We have taken some steps, like an advisory to coaching institutes to screen students for apti tude. We are setting up a helpline to counsel students.“
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	'' The coaching economy of Kota, As in 2021 ''		'' The coaching economy of Kota, As in 2021 ''
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		+	==Numbers, statistics as in 2022 – 23==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=27_08_2023_021_027_cap_TOI August 27, 2023: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	''' 1.8 lakh '''
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		+	Students who stay in Kota between July and January of the next year – the peak season for coaching. They increase the town’s regular population of 14.7 lakh by over 12%. Most of them are from UP, Bihar, MP, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal and Odisha.
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		+	''' 2,500 '''
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		+	That’s the number of registered hostels in Kota. They accommodate altogether 1.2 lakh students who pay Rs 7,000-30,000 per month for stay and food. About 80% of the boarders have a room to themselves. As demand grows, accommodation for 15,000-20,000 students is added every year. These days, 1BHK ﬂats and studio apartments are much in demand as some parents – mothers, especially – choose to camp in the city during the coaching season. Every year, 4 lakh-5 lakh parents visit Kota – practically every second visitor – contributing Rs 100 crore to the travel industry.
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		+	''' 50 lakh '''
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		+	It’s a coaching town, so there’s a huge market for books. The students buy around 50 lakh books worth Rs 40 crore-50 crore every year. The per person expenditure on books and stationery comes to Rs 8,000-10,000. The students also need uniforms, so about 6 lakh uniforms – worth Rs 500-600 each – are sold every year. And because they are teenagers, they occasionally buy more fashionable clothes wear also, together spending about Rs 60 crore every year.
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		+	''' ₹50,000 '''
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		+	Food is the third major cost for students after tuition and accommodation. Students living outside hostels as paying guests spend Rs 40,000-50,000 every year on board. Public transport – autorickshaws, vans and buses – is not too costly, with students paying Rs 30-50 a day, but about 20,000 buy new bicycles every year.
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		+	''' ₹5,000cr '''
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		+	The city’s coaching business is worth up to Rs 5,000 crore per year. There are six large institutes with more than 5,000 full-time students each, and numerous smaller ones. Yearly fees range from Rs 40,000 to Rs 1.3 lakh. Coaching creates 2 lakh jobs directly and 1.5 lakh indirectly. The government gets up to Rs 700 crore in taxes.
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		+	''' ₹2,00,00,000 '''
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		+	Some 20-30 ‘star’ teachers earn over Rs 1 crore a year. The highest package is Rs 2 crore. Even the starting package for the 4,000-5,000 teachers at the coaching institutes is Rs 8 lakh or Rs 67,000 a month. Roughly 10% of the teachers are IITians.
		+	Data sourced from Rajasthan government, coaching institutes, Kota police, chartered accountants, transporters, realtors, shopkeepers and hostels
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 Other proposals include reduction of the class population of 200 to 40 each, appointment of trained counsellors and clinical psychologists, sensitisation of teachers on mental health issues, availability of on-call doctors, creation of a recreational room for games, screening of movies, formation of peer mentor groups and removal of pigs and stray cattle.

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 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=WHY-KOTA-IS-SO-KILLING-03012016021026 ''The Times of India''] Jan 03 2016
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 Meanwhile, jolted by the serial suicides, the district administration is also awakening to its responsibility. Kota collector Ravi Kumar, says, “We have taken some steps, like an advisory to coaching institutes to screen students for apti tude. We are setting up a helpline to counsel students.“
 =Bihar Tiger Force=
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=MUSCLE-POWER-Bihar-Tiger-Force-runs-a-helpdesk-08062016018038 The Times of India], Jun 08 2016

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 "Imposition of Section 144 in civil area of the city for as long as 27 years is clearly violation of civil rights and is not in favour of the country and the democracy," said Phralad Singh Chadda, RTI activist in Kota.
 Section 144 can be imposed for a maximum of six months, advocate Jamil Ahamed said.
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 The city’s coaching expertise is also being used to bring change in Naxalite-affected Chhattisgarh and insurgency-hit Kashmir. Pramod Maheshwari, director of Career Point says, “Our collaboration with the Chhattisgarh government in providing coaching in Naxal-hit areas and collaboration with local partners in Srinagar is bringing the children of the region into the mainstream.”
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	The direct feed to parents of scores on their cell phones is a nightmare. Further, institutes segregate weaker students from the better-performers; teachers tasked to spend more time grooming the better ones so that an institute's scores a higher `success rate'. If that pushes a child over the edge, to the point of killing himself herself, it's just another tragedy .		The direct feed to parents of scores on their cell phones is a nightmare. Further, institutes segregate weaker students from the better-performers; teachers tasked to spend more time grooming the better ones so that an institute's scores a higher `success rate'. If that pushes a child over the edge, to the point of killing himself herself, it's just another tragedy .

		+	== Successful alumni give back through scholarships, coaching==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F02%2F15&entity=Ar01405&sk=D0705713&mode=text There’s a positive side to the Kota model, February 15, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Successful alumni and institutes from this town are giving back by offering scholarships and coaching to the underprivileged
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		+	Med aspirant ends life’, ‘Drugs, sex, stress in Kota’…India’s coaching hub gets a lot of bad press. But in Rajasthan’s Sojat town, they know Kota as the place that helped Ramchandra Sankhla crack the IIT exam and get to the US to work in one of the world’s top companies.
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		+	Born into the family of a daily wage earner, Sankhla, 25, grew up in a single-room home in Sojat. Seeing his calibre, a teacher in his government school urged him to shift to Kota for IIT-JEE coaching. But cost was a major worry. “We borrowed some money and headed for Kota, unsure whether we will be able to pay it back,” Sankhla tells TOI over the phone from the US.
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		+	Sankhla needn’t have worried. A year later he was picked for a scholarship; he qualified for IIT-Roorkee; Google hired him and after a stint at Bengaluru, he was sent to Seattle.
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		+	Sankhla is one amongst the numerous IITians that Kota’s coaching institutes churn out annually. Many, like Sankhla, came from underprivileged backgrounds – the son of a coolie at a railway station, a NREGA worker from Bihar, a girl child bride… In Kota, they found both support and success.
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		+	“Some successful alumni have been granting scholarships to needy students. Vatsalya Singh, son of a welder from Khagaria, Bihar, hit the headlines after he was hired by Microsoft with an annual package of Rs 1.2 crore in 2016. “Had Kota not supported me, I would have perhaps become a welder too,” says Singh. Today, he is helping others achieve their dreams.
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		+	The city’s coaching expertise is also being used to bring change in Naxalite-affected Chhattisgarh and insurgency-hit Kashmir. Pramod Maheshwari, director of Career Point says, “Our collaboration with the Chhattisgarh government in providing coaching in Naxal-hit areas and collaboration with local partners in Srinagar is bringing the children of the region into the mainstream.”

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-[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F01%2F28&entity=Ar00523&sk=6D5D63B7&mode=text  Hemali Chhapia ,
+[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F01%2F28&entity=Ar00523&sk=6D5D63B7&mode=text  Hemali Chhapia, Drugs, sex, stress: Why Kota may be bad for your child, January 28, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
 Drugs, sex, stress: Why Kota may be bad for your child, January 28, 2018: The Times of India]
 Self-harm, substance abuse, bullying, sexual experimentation and the possibility of pregnancy, sleep-related issues, loneliness, weight loss, acidity and anxiety are common among students in Kota, the coaching class capital of Rajasthan famous for offering preparatory courses to IIT hopefuls, a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences has said.
 The report, submitted recently to the Kota district administration which had commissioned a study to find out reasons for student suicides, has a suggestion for parents: “Do an initial recce, if possible, to understand the atmosphere of Kota. It is not the best place for all children...”

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	A high-level meeting, pre sided by chief minister Vasundhara Raje, was earlier held in Jaipur to contain suicides in Kota. The meeting was attended by 21 psychologists with experience of handling students at coaching centres.		A high-level meeting, pre sided by chief minister Vasundhara Raje, was earlier held in Jaipur to contain suicides in Kota. The meeting was attended by 21 psychologists with experience of handling students at coaching centres.
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		+	=Sex, sleep-deprivation, loneliness, weight loss, acidity, anxiety/ 2018=
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F01%2F28&entity=Ar00523&sk=6D5D63B7&mode=text Hemali Chhapia ,
		+	Drugs, sex, stress: Why Kota may be bad for your child, January 28, 2018: The Times of India]
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		+	Self-harm, substance abuse, bullying, sexual experimentation and the possibility of pregnancy, sleep-related issues, loneliness, weight loss, acidity and anxiety are common among students in Kota, the coaching class capital of Rajasthan famous for offering preparatory courses to IIT hopefuls, a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences has said.
		+	The report, submitted recently to the Kota district administration which had commissioned a study to find out reasons for student suicides, has a suggestion for parents: “Do an initial recce, if possible, to understand the atmosphere of Kota. It is not the best place for all children...”
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		+	‘49% of respondents feel nervous, scared & worried’
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		+	The study has also suggested ways to ease academic stress. Class sizes in coaching academies could be cut to a fifth. Advertisements on exam results could reveal the truth instead of throwing up fantastic numbers. Recreational activities such as music and dance could be woven into the rigorous competitive exam preparation timetable, and batches may no longer be segregated based on academic performance.
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		+	Between 2013 and May 2017, 58 student suicides were reported at coaching centres in the district, show police records, which however give no information on attempted suicides. In fact, between 2011and 2014, suicides in Kota due to failure in exams made up the highest percentage of such deaths among 88 Indian cities considered for the study.
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		+	Every year, approximately 1.5 lakh to two lakh students come to Kota to realise their dream of getting into an engineering or medical college. Who are these students — mostly boys and a few girls? What is a day like for them? What do they eat? What academic pressure do they face? How does Kota treat them?
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		+	The researchers — dean of the TISS school of human ecology, Sujata Sriram, assistant professor Chetna Duggal, counsellor Nikhar Ranawat and counselling psychologist Rajshree Faria — looked into all these questions, with the respondents giving replies on a “perceived stress scale” framed for the survey. “49% of respondents cited feeling nervous, worried and scared; 42% mentioned that their friends were nervous, scared and worried. 37% said they felt easily annoyed or irritable, followed by 32% who said they were upset or sad for most part of the day or for many days at a time,” stated the report.
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		+	“Feelings of hopelessness and helplessness were expressed by 28% respondents; another 28% expressed feelings of worthlessness. Serious concerns of feeling like a failure and letting down the family were expressed by 27% of the respondents.”
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		+	Many students reported sleep-related problems, of not being able to wake up or falling asleep or staying asleep. Problems of constantly feeling tired were mentioned, as were those related to eating, food, loss of appetite and weight. While digestion trouble figured on the list of issues, around a third of the female students spoke of problems with their menstrual period, the report stated.
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		+	The researchers noted that very often, messes bought the lowest quality of vegetables — leftover stock or stock not considered suitable for sale due to the price factor. “This kind of stock was colloquially referred to as “messquality” vegetables. Students had concerns regarding the quality of the food served (uncooked rice, watery dal and stale food), lack of healthy food available in canteens, hostels and messes, lack of hygiene in kitchens, hostels providing good-quality food only in the beginning of the session and differing palates.”
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		+	Similarly, hoardings that welcomed many to Kota made “inflated claims”. While each coaching centre advertises the names, rank and photographs of successful candidates, the actual percentage of success was not disclosed to researchers.
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		+	The report recommended that there should be accurate display and communication of the coaching centres’ success rates in IIT-JEE, NEET, and other entrance exams. Again, any form of advertisements by coaching centres should incorporate a disclaimer stating that studying in that particular coaching centre does not guarantee admission into medical and engineering colleges, it said.
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		+	Other proposals include reduction of the class population of 200 to 40 each, appointment of trained counsellors and clinical psychologists, sensitisation of teachers on mental health issues, availability of on-call doctors, creation of a recreational room for games, screening of movies, formation of peer mentor groups and removal of pigs and stray cattle.

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 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=MUSCLE-POWER-Bihar-Tiger-Force-runs-a-helpdesk-08062016018038 The Times of India], Jun 08 2016
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 On May 13, 2016, in one of the most violent incidents in the history of Kota involving students, a group of nearly 50 coaching students, part of a group called the Bihar Tiger Force, stabbed to death a 19-year-old student Satya Prakash `Prince' and another student on May 13. It brought to the fore the other strand of the Kota story .
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 Following Satya Prakash's murder, the police have arrested two members of the BTF.Hostels have been alerted to tell police about all above-19 residents on their premises.

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