In response to the increasing incidents of students committing suicide, the Kota district administration has issued an order mandating the installation of spring-loaded fans in all hostel rooms and paying guest accommodations in the city.

Spring-loaded fans are designed to collapse when a certain amount of weight is applied to them. This is intended to prevent people from using them to hang themselves.

“To provide mental support and security to the students studying/living in them and to prevent suicides from increasing among coaching students in Kota city, all hostel/PG operators in the state are directed to install a security spring device in the fans at every room, as discussed in Saturday’s meeting,” the order issued by Kota district collector Om Prakash Bunkar said, according to Hindustan Times.

The order also stated that the owners of coaching institutes, hostels, and PGs will be held responsible if any student commits suicide.

This comes days after an 18-year-old boy preparing for JEE committed suicide on Tuesday night.

This was the fourth student suicide reported in Kota this month. Three other coaching students, including two IIT-JEE aspirants and one NEET-UG aspirant, died earlier this month.

Recently, the district administration said that it will conduct psychological tests of coaching students every fortnight. “We are going to conduct psychological test every fortnight of every coaching student, whether he is in coaching institute, hostel or PG,” Bunkar said.