Ceiling fans with springs, sirens to end Kota suicides
Kota: A siren sensor and a spring device that will lower ceiling fans if anyone over 20 kg tries to hang by one will be affixed to fans in hostel rooms in the coaching hub of Kota, grappling with rising cases of student suicides. The secret sensor will also start blaring out, alerting authorities. Kota is the country’s capital of competitive exam coaching.
Kota, March 30: A siren sensor and a spring device that will lower ceiling fans if anyone over 20 kg tries to hang by it will be affixed to fans in hostel rooms in the coaching hub of Kota, grappling with rising cases of student suicides.
Kota, known as the capital of competitive exam coaching in the country, has seen a rise in cases of suicides by stressed out students.
Most of the suicides in the past in Kota were committed by coaching students by hanging themselves from the ceiling fans of their hostel rooms.
Keeping this in mind, the Kota Hostel Association, has come up with the decision to attach a spring equipment and a siren to the ceiling fans of the hostel rooms providing accommodation to coaching students.
“The association has decided to make it mandatory for every student hostel registered with the association to attach a secret spring equipment and siren sensor to the ceiling fans of the hostel rooms,” Naveen Mittal, president of Kota Hostel Association, said.
The secret spring equipment attached with the ceiling fan is capable of bearing a weight of not more than 20 kg and will come down with the expansion of the spring if anyone heavier than 20 kg tries to hang from the fan, he said. Besides, the secret sensor with the fan will also start blaring out alerting authorities.
A firm from Gujarat has been given an order for the supply of the spring equipment and sensor and the work to attach the equipment and sensor is underway in some of the hostels. The process is expected to be over in two to three months, said Manish Jain, founder president of the association.
Besides, biometric attendance machines would also be installed for daily attendance at all the hostels in Kota.