Deadly Cost of Hyper-Competitive Education
Avijit Pathak | 25 February 2025 | The Tribune
Isn’t it absurd that we can't think of anything beyond a set of technical solutions — say, the installation of 'suicide proofing' fans in hostel rooms, or nets in balconies and lobbies — to the recurring problem of suicides or the abrupt end of the life-journey of broken/shattered/ disillusioned young students in Kota, which is a site of the demonic coaching industry?
Well, in recent times, the business of the Kota coaching industry has somewhat declined because of the 'bad' name it got as newspapers began to report regularly about the pathetic mental health of young aspirants. In fact, the number of students in Kota is falling and, as a report reveals, the annual revenue of this business enterprise has been reduced to Rs 3,500 crore from Rs 7,000 crore…