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  KOTA SUICIDES : ANY SOLUTIONS ? For the past many years, JEE coaching hubs especially Kota & Hyderabad have recorded student suicides every year of which many were unreported besides thousands of (unreported) cases of mental depression, hyper-anxiety and mental trauma every year. In 2023 alone so far, there have been 26 reported suicides of students in Kota which has gained national media attention and has prompted the Rajasthan Govt to ban all internal exams of coaching institutes for 2 months. There may be multiple reasons (illness, break-ups, academic failure, pressure from parents, unpaid loans etc) for this phenomenon (accurate info on causes of suicide is difficult to find) and this article attempts to identify the non-behavioural external probable causes behind these suicides and suggests measures from all stake-holders (Govt, coaching classes, schools, parents, students, society and media too!) to significantly resolve this burning issue. Let us first accept one basic p