People have paid for leaked papers for very competitive entrance exams or paid in bribes to win jobs in previous selection drives.
Twelve people died in this case over the course of a string of 10 km tribes in eastern Jharkhand, India, in the past two months.
Hemant Soren, the state’s main minister in Jharkhand, described the deaths as “heartbreaking” and instructed health professionals to look into the “untimely death of these youngsters, so that such accidents do not arise in future.
Anurag Gupta, the head of state police, confirmed the deaths and said the studies had already begun. The hiring campaign has been postponed.
Jharkhand has some of the nation’s highest levels of poverty and unemployment.
According to doctors who were cited by The Times of India, some candidates had low blood pressure and had been hospitalized as a result of dehydration.
The report, in its editorial on Tuesday, said the selection deaths were” a condition” of the wider employment problems.
” These are n’t competitions”, it read. These are “pitch fights for life,” meaning” these are fought for a chance to secure a working-age people’s livelihoods.”