A NEET aspirant allegedly died by suicide by hanging herself in her room in Rajasthan’s Kota on Saturday night time forward of the nationwide medical entrance examination being held in the present day, police mentioned. She was to present the examination held at numerous centres throughout the nation.

The lady was below 18 years of age and belonged to Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur, circle inspector at Kunhadi police station Arvind Bhardwaj instructed information company PTI.

The coed was scheduled to take the NEET-UG examination and had been residing along with her dad and mom in Kota for the previous a number of years. She had been getting ready for the examination at a training institute within the city, police mentioned.

The relations have been reportedly at house on the time of the incident and located her lifeless round 9 pm. No suicide be aware was recovered from her room, Bhardwaj mentioned.

He additionally mentioned that no suicide be aware was present in her room and her physique had been despatched for a autopsy examination.

That is the 14th case of suicide by a training pupil in Kota this 12 months since January this 12 months. A complete of 17 instances of suicide by teaching college students have been reported in Kota final 12 months.

NEET-UG EXAM AT 5,453 CENTRES

The NEET-UG examination is scheduled for in the present day at 5,453 centres in over 500 cities throughout the nation. This 12 months, over 22.7 lakh candidates have registered for the take a look at.

“There shall be three layers of monitoring on the examination day – on the district, state and Centre ranges,” a Ministry of Training (MoE) supply mentioned.

“To make sure clean and safe conduct of the examination, mock drills are being carried out in any respect centres. These drills will assist take a look at readiness by way of performance of cell sign jammers; availability of satisfactory manpower for frisking; and biometric authentication procedures,” the supply mentioned.

A lot of the centres this 12 months are positioned in authorities and government-aided colleges, schools, universities, and establishments.

The ministry has mentioned that instances shall be filed towards candidates discovered indulging in unfair means – earlier than, throughout, or after the examination – below the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, and penalised accordingly.

The strict measures come a 12 months after alleged irregularities, together with paper leaks, have been flagged within the NEET-UG and PhD entrance NET examination, which put the integrity of the examinations below the scanner. The CBI is probing each issues.

The Centre arrange a panel to make sure the “clear, clean and honest” conduct of exams held by the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA).

(with inputs from PTI)