IIT AND KOTA

Kota aka the suicide capital of India has experienced 57 suicides until this June 2016. Few of the many reasons may be: Inability to cope up with the rigorous study schedules which leaves no time for students to themselves. A brutal method of segregation of weak or average students from the “ deserving “ crowd. The most common, expectations of parents and the fear of letting them down. Most students are forced by their parents and their expectations into a profession they are not really made for, into the hyper-competetive race for making into the prestigious IIT’s and AIIMS Parents must stop imposing their dreams on their children Prime reason for suicide from my point of view is not the fear of failure but young students are really unaware of the opportunity they have in future Pressure is also there in IAS, IES exam but people do not commit suicide because they become so mature to think that is not the correct way of giving up. But at the age of 13-17 we do not have th...

Students of Kota-based Allen Career Institute grabbed the first three All India Ranks in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2016, results of which were declared on Sunday. All India topper Aman Bansal and third ranker Kunal Goyal took coaching at the institute’s Jaipur centre and Bhavesh Dhingra studied at Chandigarh to secure admission to the bachelor’s, integrated master’s and dual degree programs (entry at the 10+2 level) in the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) and the Indian School of Mines (ISM). The institute’s director Naveen Maheshwari told Hindustan Times that Bansal scored 320 marks, Dhingra 312 marks and Goyal got 310 marks to grab the top spots. Maheshwari also said that out of seven zone toppers, four are from the institute. Bansal was a topper in IIT-Mumbai zone, Dhingra in IIT-Roorkee zone, Sharvik Mital topped in IIT-Kanpur zone and Ishan Tarunesh in IIT-Guwahati zone. Last year, Satwat Jagwani from Kota’s Bansal Classes topped JEE Advanced...

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For 16-year-old Himanshu, a regular day begins at 6 am as he attends coaching classes, school, remedial lessons in the afternoon, finally ending with yet another round of coaching in the evening. It's usually 8 pm by this time. Staying in a private hostel in Rajasthan's Kota town, away from family, the teen from Indore in Madhya Pradesh is in his last year in high school and is preparing for the tough entrance examination for the premier Indian Institutes of Technology. By now, Himanshu is accustomed to the gruelling routine. But many are unable to. In the last three months, at least seven students have committed suicide. Also depression leads them to do lot of religious things to start getting better marks in monthly tests. In August, Yogesh Johre, just a year older than Himanshu, set himself on fire and jumped from his hostel building in Kota. Police say that stress related to exams could have led to the teen committing suicide. In July, 20-year-old Avin...

1) To begin with, this is what they cost us While it takes over Rs 3.4 lakh to educate an IITian per year, the student pays only Rs 90,000 per year. The rest is borne by the government. That is close to Rs 2.5 lakh per student per year, which is being paid by the tax payer. If one extrapolates this to all the 39,540 students in the Indian Institute of Technologies, the cost borne by the tax payer on educating IITians extends to 988.5 crore annually. According to budget estimates, Rs 1703.85 crore is to be allocated to the IITs for 2015-'16. 2) What do we get in return for the Rs 1,700 crore we spend on them? Inspite of producing 9,885 world-class engineers in computer science, electrical, electronic, chemical, mechanical, production fields every year... a) The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, though successful with the Russian Cryogenic Engine, has time and again failed with the indigenous cryogenic engine. We have succeeded only once with our indige...

Body of a 7-year-old boy, who was kidnapped last evening, has been found today in a canal in Bundi district, police said. Rudraskh, son of a bank manager Punit Handa, was abducted yesterday from a park here where he was playing with his friends, they said. "The body was spotted in Nanta canal in Bundi's Talera police station area by a passerby in the morning following which the body was taken out and postmortem was conducted by a medical board," Additional SP, Kota, Rajan Dushyant told PTI. Station House Officer (SHO) of Jhawar Nagar police station Haricharan Meena said the boy's hands were tied and there was no injury mark. "Exact reason of the death will be clear once the postmortem report comes," he said. According to police, the kidnapper had demanded a ransom of Rs 2 crore and threatened to kill the boy if his father informed police or did not arrange the money. Following the report of abduction, an alert was sounded at all check points...