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of the foremost platforms to train the municipal corporation polls in the mained static over the years. There
healthcare workforce of the world.'' It state. has been no increase," he said.
will help in augmenting the quality of
patient care, he added. The Haryana advocate general's office Kota introduces Helpline,
has made the suggestion that the edu- fee refund, weekly offs to
10 days to get a job for cational qualification for people con- de-stress students
1000 IIT-Kgp students testing for municipal corporations be
fixed as Class XII and for the commit- Concerned over the rising number of
Over 1,000 IIT-Kharagpur students have tees and councils, it should be matricu- students committing suicides, the Kota
grabbed job offers in top companies in lation. district administration and the city's
just 10 days of the first phase of place- coaching institutes have begun taking
ment season, a statement said. Advocate General B. R. Mahajan said corrective measures in an attempt to
that an ordinance would be promul- de-stress the students and install posi-
Atal Ashutosh Agarwal, vice president, gated to amend the existing Acts. tivity in them.
IIT-Kgp said in a statement, "We took
12 days to hit this milestone in 2014. Indian schools are like fac- The district administration has chalked
We have been able to reach this tar- tories churn out students: out strategies to reduce the pressure
get early primarily because of the in- Former ISRO chief that students undergo; issuing several
crease in the number of students be- guidelines to coaching institutes includ-
ing hired by organisations that have In a scathing censure of the country's ing starting weekly offs for students,
been visiting our campus over the educational system, eminent scientist augmenting the number of counsellors,
years." G. Madhavan Nair said that Indian providing fees refund, facilitating recre-
schools are mostly like factories that ational activities and other measures.
He said it is a testament to the fact churn out students even as he called
that the institute's students are cur- for renewed thrust in the fields of sci- More than 1.25 lakh students head to
rently regarded as the most employ- ence and research. coaching institutes in Kota every year
able across the country. However, IIT- with dreams of cracking the highly
Kgp has disapproved recent media re- Slamming the present way of teaching competitive entrance exams. The rig-
ports claiming one of its students at schools that encourages rote learn- orous study schedule, high-pressure
(Pune-based Abhishek Pant) bagged an ing, the former Chairman of Indian environment, competitive exams and
annual package of Rs.2 crore from Space Research Organisation (ISRO) stress of living alone take a toll on
Google after completing internship. said that school syllabi need to be many students, pushing some of them
changed. Children should be encour- to commit suicide. A total of 19 stu-
Following the disclosure by the stu- aged to directly engage in laboratory dents have committed suicide in Kota
dent, All IITs Placement Committee experiments. in 2015.
(AIPC) has taken an informal decision
not to reveal the details of pay pack- "The children are dealt with like almost "Primarily, increasing counselling of
ages offered by recruiters during final in a factory. At one end, they come in students and parents, developing rec-
placements. and they go through speedo-trip (sic) reational activities, fees refund and
programme and come out with 'A' or other measures are part of the guide-
Class XII must to contest 'A+' (grades) whatever it is, which has lines," Kota district collector Dr Ravi
civic polls; Class X for no meaning in terms of knowledge," Kumar Surpur said, adding the district
councils Nair said. administration has asked institutes to
conduct screening tests from the next
After fixing the minimum educational He also said that research & Design academic session.
qualification for elections to the activities in the country are limited as
Panchayati Raj institutions in Haryana, most of them are supported by the Coaching institutes observed Saturday
the Manohar Lal Khattar government government. "Some of the labs are as 'Fun Day', where they encouraged
is planning to make Class XII qualifica- doing extremely well but, unfortu- coaching students to relieve their
tion mandatory for contesting the nately, government funding has re- stress via recreational activities.
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