Wellbeing
Six rules, and the one that costs us money.
Kota's reputation is earned, and it was earned by institutes that treat a sixteen-year-old as a throughput number. These are the six rules that make this place different, written plainly enough that you can hold us to them.
Batch size is capped at 60
Not 200, not 400. Above sixty a teacher stops knowing who is quietly falling behind, and falling behind quietly is how this goes wrong.
Two counsellors for 412 students
Registered clinical psychologists, on staff, not a helpline number on a poster. A weekly mentor check-in is scheduled, not optional, and it appears on the timetable above.
No rank boards in public spaces
Ranks are shared with the student and the family, privately. A leaderboard in a corridor helps the top ten and damages everyone else.
Phones are allowed
A sixteen-year-old five hundred kilometres from home should be able to ring their mother without asking permission.
Sunday is closed
The building is shut. Not 'optional revision' — shut. Six days is the schedule; the seventh is not a loophole.
We tell parents when to take a child home
Eleven times last year. It costs us the fee and it is the single most important thing on this page.
If you are struggling right now
Tell your mentor, or ring the counsellor directly.
Both counsellors' numbers are on the back of every student ID card and on every noticeboard. You do not need permission, a reason, or a parent's knowledge to use them.
Outside our hours, the national helpline Tele-MANAS is on 14416 and answers around the clock in most Indian languages.