Hundreds of aspiring students of engineering and medical home in on Kota every year. The city is famous for its coaching centres. But the city is slowly getting another tag -- a tag that it wouldn't be proud of.

There is a growing instance of students taking their own lives after failing to crack the entrance exams to medical or engineering colleges.

On Tuesday (December 25), the body of a 17-year-old boy was found hanging from a fan in his hostel room. Jitesh Gupta from Bihar was taking coaching classes in Kota for the IIT-JEE entrance examination. The boy had been preparing for the examination for the past three years from a coaching institute in Kota.

His relatives were trying to reach him on Tuesday morning. Unable to contact him, they called up a friend of his and asked him to check on him. When the friend peeped inside the room through a window, he saw Jitesh hanging from a ceiling fan. Thereafter, police at the Mahaveer Nagar police station were informed. The body was taken to the Maharao Bhim Singh (MBS) Hospital where it has been kept in the mortuary. Jitesh's relatives have been informed. No suicide note was found in the room.

"The police had to break open the door and bring the body down. The boy's relatives have been informed. No suicide note has been found on him," a police officer told India Today TV.

On Monday (December 24), 18-year-old Disha Singh, who hailed from Khushinagar in Gorakhpur (UP), committed suicide by hanging herself. The police from Kunhari police station, on receiving the information, reached the hostel. The girl's body has been kept in the MBS Hospital mortuary. The girl's elder sister who is also studying in Kota was informed of her death.

"Disha was preparing for her medical [entrance exam]. She was staying here for the past six months. Her elder sister also stays here. She has been informed," a police officer told India Today TV.

On Saturday afternoon, another student, Deepak Dadich, an IIT aspirant who hailed from Rajasthan's Bundi district had killed himself by hanging in a room in his coaching institute.

This year, since January, there have been more than 15 suicides in Kota district, which is now referred to as the suicide capital of Rajasthan.

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