The cockroach party has demanded Janta $Compensation of Rs 1 crore for suicides linked to leak of NEET papers. In an open letter to Prime Minister Modi, CJP founder Abhijit Debki pointed out that 11 NEET aspirants died by suicide in the last week, five of them in the last 48 hours.
“We request your administration to release a compensation amount of Rs 1 lakh crore to all the families who have suffered suicide due to the worsening paper leak crisis,” Debki wrote.
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Debke said in the letter that the families of the deceased youth now face severe and compounded financial devastation. “In the pursuit of a better future, many have taken out huge educational loans to support their children’s dreams, which have been cruelly crushed by systemic failures,” Debke wrote, adding that this devastating trend is increasing as the pressures of upcoming re-exams loom large on young people.
He pointed out that the government is demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged examination violations. “All we students want is to see some accountability for the loss of life,” he said.
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“Holding leadership accountability is a vital step toward restoring the trust of millions of students and parents in our educational framework. If rapid and decisive action is not taken to address these systemic failures and change the leadership responsible for them, it inadvertently sends a message that the administration accepts the status quo.”
The open letter comes amid reports of suicides of students, mostly NEET aspirants, from across the country over the past several days now. The NEET exam held on May 3 had to be canceled after it was rife with allegations of paper leakage. The exam was later rescheduled to June 21, creating a stressful situation for students who had appeared for the competitive exam once.
More than 2.27 million students in 551 cities attended the test before it was cancelled.
Now, as candidates prepare to take the exam again, and the Central Bureau of Investigation continues its probe into the leak, reports of deaths in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra and Karnataka have highlighted the human toll of the controversy.
A 23-year-old woman died by suicide at her home in Dehradun, Uttarakhand on Tuesday due to “dissatisfaction with her excellence in her studies”. The aspirant showed no previous signs of depression or behavioral change to indicate such a drastic step, according to a police official.
Police say the victim lived in Chandrapani area of Dehradun and was preparing for the NEET retake exam. The report said that the victim obtained a grade of 96.7% in the twelfth grade and later became a top student in college.
Another 17-year-old student who was preparing to retake the NEET exam died after falling from the sixth floor of an apartment building in Ahmedabad’s New Ranib area in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.
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