A committee of the Madhya Pradesh assembly would go for study tour of coaching institutes of Kota. The Committee of the state assembly constituted to suggest remedy to stop incidences of suicides by students would go on for two day study tour to Kota in Rajasthan where it would visit several coaching institutes on June 14 and 15.
Notably, suicides by students studying in coaching institutes of Kota have registered enormous rise during past some years that has shaken the locals. Keeping in mind this situation the Committee was constituted and on the initiative of its chairperson Archana Chitnis the Committee would tour Kota and would hold discussions with the handlers of the coaching institutes, Collector, Superintendent of Police and other concerned people besides the Committee would study that how many students from Madhya Pradesh are studying in Kota since last few years and how many of them committed suicide and what were the reasons behind that.
An eleven member committee was constituted on March 11, 2016 by the state assembly during the last assembly session after discussion over increasing number of suicides by the students in the state. Chitnis was named as the chairperson of the committee while Bala Bachchan, Mahendra Singh Kalukheda, Ramniwas Rawat, Kedarnath Shukla, Mukesh Nayak, Vishwas Sarang, Shailendra Jain, Thakudas Nagwanshi, Pushpendra Pathak and Sheela Tyagi were made its members. Higher Education minister Umashankar Gupta and School Education minister Dipak Joshi were included as ex-officio members and the Principal Secretary of the state assembly Bhagwandev Israni was named as ex-officio secretary of the committee.
As per the decision of the committee advertisements were published in the national and local newspapers seeking suggestions from subject specialist and people to stop incidences of suicides by the students. The suggestions received were studied by the committee.