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65 IIT student suicides in 5 years, Dipke seeks education overhaul
Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, has called for a complete overhaul of the education system after a 31-year-old IIT Delhi student died by suicide on campus. In a post…
Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, has called for a complete overhaul of the education system after a 31-year-old IIT Delhi student died by suicide on campus. In a post on X, Dipke said the IITs have recorded 65 student suicides in the last five years. 'If this is the situation at our best institutions, imagine the state of the rest,' he wrote.
The student, pursuing an MSc in Physics, allegedly jumped from the sixth floor of the Lecture Hall Complex at IIT Delhi on Saturday. Police have registered a case of abetment to suicide against unidentified persons. No suicide note was recovered from the spot.
IIT Delhi has reconstituted an external probe panel, now headed by retired Delhi High Court judge Mukta Gupta, to investigate the circumstances of the death. The move followed student protests and the suspension of classes on Monday. Former Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar, initially appointed as panel chair, recused himself citing personal reasons.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The 65 suicides across IITs in five years works out to about one every month, a rate that has drawn scrutiny from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, which has studied student mental health in elite campuses. The IIT Delhi case follows a pattern where the institute's initial internal probe was replaced by an external panel only after protests, similar to the response after a 2023 IIT Bombay suicide. What matters now is whether the reconstituted committee, under a retired judge, will release its findings publicly, and if the All India Council for Technical Education will mandate counselling ratios for all IITs as it did for engineering colleges after a 2018 Supreme Court directive.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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