A suicide foretold?

""The appointment of Nirmala Sitharaman as defence minister need not also be confused with the issue of women's empowerment where so much more needs to be done in India, especially at the grassroots. Take the tragic suicide of 17-year-old Anitha, a coolie's daughter who topped from Trichinopoly district the Tamil Nadu state school board exams, scoring 1,176 out of a maximum of 1,200 marks, maxing her physics and maths papers. However, despite achieving a cut-off of 196 out of 200, she could not get admission to a medical college because she did not do well in the Supreme Court-mandated NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test).. 
Politicians of all parties have mourned Anitha's death. While noting that students who have passed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exam have an advantage when it comes to NEET since it is more aligned with their syllabus, some politicians have made the obvious point that it is difficult for a coolie's daughter who always wanted to be a daughter (doctor?) to pay for coaching classes to crack NEET.  
Surely, the Tamil Nadu government, which has a plethora of social-welfare schemes (Amma canteens, Amma pharmacies, et al), could have set up at least one coaching centre in each district to help toppers from poor families crack exams like NEET for medical colleges, JEE for the IITs and CAT for the IIMs, not to mention the annual UPSC exams for the civil services.  "

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Background of Anitha: "Medical college admissions in Tamil Nadu were conducted solely based on the Plus Two examination marks until last year. Though the Central government introduced NEET last year, Tamil Nadu was exempted from it. This year too, the State government sought exemption and the Legislative Assembly passed amendments to continue the existing practice in medical college admissions.

Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman earlier said the Central government would support Tamil Nadu's ordinance, but in the Supreme Court the Centre changed its stand. The Supreme Court on August 22 directed the Tamil Nadu government to complete counselling process for medical admissions in the State on the basis of the NEET merit list by September 4."

A story from ten years ago 'Chronicle of a suicide foretold' my Mrinal Pande in her collection of articles The other country :Dispatches from Moffusil by Mrinal Pande:

"On 22 October 2007, a twenty-two-year-old second-year B.Tech student of the IEC Engineering College, NOIDA, hanged himself. The suicide note Brijesh Kumar left behind in the room he shared with another student in Tughlakpur village said that he was doing this because he could not cope with the courses being taught in English and did not want to burden his family with paying another hefty amount towards special coaching classes in English. Social and educational aspirations which had brought this young man from Jaunpur to the national capital region are very much a part of middle-class life everywhere in India today. But the inequalities within our education system, between the private, English-medium schools on the one hand and the Hindi (or vernacular-medium) state-run schools on the other, mean that although all parents want the best for their children—as no doubt Brajesh Kumar’s parents did—the children, when they enter the campus, find that some ‘bests’ will remain better and less accessible to them only for the lack of required linguistic skills."
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