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Girl jumps to death off CBSE building
Another tower became a terminal point in the Capital as a 20-year-old jumped to her death after repeatedly failing to clear the boards.
The girl, Khushbu, who suffered from a breathing ailment, had been taking the Class X examination for three years.
The absence of any bars or grills on windows of the 10-storey building showed hardly any precautions to prevent such a mishap.
Khushbu, who lived in west Delhi"s Mayapuri, had come to the building to fill a form for reappearing in the Maths paper.
"Around 12.30 pm, she came to this floor and said she wanted to use the toilet. I allowed her in. When we heard someone had jumped from the building, we discovered she had bolted the toilet from inside and jumped from the window,"" said a security guard posted on the ninth floor at the time of the incident.
According to the police, Khushbu, who was carrying her application form and photograph in a black bag, left behind a one-page suicide note.
"I was unable to complete the exam papers in 3 hours and we should be given 3 hours 30 minutes. I used to appear for my papers with honesty while others used to cheat and pass.... I render myself useless as I have been flunking repeatedly and have been inefficient. I do not feel like living anymore,"" she wrote.
She reportedly also mentioned the mobile number of her family.Wearing jeans and blue shirt, she was carrying a black bag with her application form and photograph on it.
"We have the Answer Book department on the ninth floor. Only the lift lobby and toilets are meant for public use. However, numerous people enter the building for forms and interviews. It"s difficult to account for everybody,"" said a CBSE official.
CBSE chairman Ashok Ganguly was not available for comments. Reacting to the incident, a senior CBSE official said a number of steps had been taken to ease stress for students taking the board examination, including the practice of giving a 15-minute extra time for reading the question paper.
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