Education
Upset over CBSE results, 3 students commit suicide
Upset over not scoring good marks in the Class 10 exam conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), three students allegedly committed suicide here by hanging themselves, police said.
Police said, one of the deceased identified as Rohit Kumar Meena (17) was a student of Dwarka’s M.R. Vivekananda Model School.
After scoring 59 per cent in the exam, Meena, a resident of Kakrola area, committed suicide in his room. He was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
According to police, a call about the incident was received around 3.45 p.m. No suicide note was recovered but police suspect he was upset over the results.
In the second incident, a student, Pragya Pandey, 15, who stayed in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her residence. “She was a student in Ryan School and secured 70 per cent. She wanted to pursue science but could not get through due to the low percentage,” said a senior police officer.
Her father works as an enforcement officer in Enforcement Directorate (ED), he added.
The third student was 17-year-old Khushboo from Dabri area. “She failed in two subjects,” a police official said.
She slit her wrist and then hanged herself from a fan at her house after the results were declared.
Education
As many as six new nursing colleges to be functional in Haryana soon
Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.