The Kota administration has decided to give mandatory training to every hostel staff in the city, the administration officials announced. The step has been taken to provide a positive atmosphere to the coaching students in the city and keep them in constant contact with the authorities.

Sunita Daga, the coordinating nodal officer on behalf of the district administration, held a meeting with the office bearers of the hostel association of the city, at the Allen Sankalp campus in Indra Vihar, Talwandi, Kota, Rajasthan.

Free training for the director, manager, warden, guard and mess staff working in every hostel in the city will begin from February 3 in different areas of the city. Nearly 200 personnel will be trained in one session. There will be two sessions daily, in which the first session will be from 9 am to 12 pm and the second session from 2 pm to 5 pm. Officials of the respective hostel associations will also be present in the training sessions. The training will be provided free of charge by Allen’s trained trainers.

With the completion of the sessions, a survey of hostels and PGs in the city will be conducted and action will be taken against those hostels that fail to follow the guidelines and instructions of the district administration and do not participate in the gate keeper training.

This updates comes a few days after an 18-year-old girl, who had been preparing for had been preparing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), died by suicide in Kota. Last year, Kota saw 29 student deaths by suicide reported in its many coaching centres, the highest ever in a single year.

To cater a positive environment for students and to ensure that they feel heard by the authorities, Kota’s District Collector Dr Ravindra Goswami has launched a new initiative ‘Kamyab Kota’ under which the district collector will have a weekly dinner every Friday with the coaching students in the city at their hostel.