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The Government is deeply concerned with the issue of high stress level among students caused by the public examination at the end of class X and XII conducted by various boards, Joint Entrance Examination for IITs and other entrance examinations. To address the question of promoting equality in access to education as also to allow the students to have a stress free environment of joyful learning, the Ministry had convened a meeting recently with Eminent Educationists, Principals, representatives from premier institutions such as the Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management, Heads of the Boards of Examination and others. It was unanimously agreed that there must be systemic reforms to eliminate exam-related stress. It was also felt that a national consensus on the issues should be reached through wider discussion.
The problem of increasing stress among students during examinations and instances of some students committing suicides due to failure in examination and stress have been engaging the attention of the Government. However, there are various contributory factors such as competition, peer & parental pressure, fast changing socio-economic conditions, lack of employment opportunities and fear of failure in examinations which become the cause of tragedies like suicides among students.
This information was given by Shri M.A.A. Fatmi, Minister of State for Human Resource Development in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
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