‘This is the most stressed city in India’: the dark side of coaching capital Kota
Suicides throw spotlight on gruelling culture of cramming for entrance exams and great burden placed on students
For the 300,000 students who flock to Kota every year, this hot, dusty city in the Indian state of Rajasthan is a pressure cooker of performance, where 18 hours of study a day is common and where your exam marks are everything. Some will become India’s next generation of doctors and engineers; but for others, it will break them.
Kota has become known in recent decades as India’s “coaching capital”, where almost a dozen specialist institutes have sprung up offering intensive courses to prepare students for the highly competitive exams, either for medicine or engineering college. With 65% of India’s population of 1.4 billion people below the age of 35 and more young people pursuing higher education than anytime in its history, the stakes – and competition – have never been higher.
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