Anti-Discrimination Guidelines to Dedicated Listeners, IITs Step Up to Keep Students Safe - News18
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From dedicated ‘listeners’ to hear students out and changes in evaluation system to third-party counselling and a record of students who haven’t met faculty, premier Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), hit by student suicides on campus post pandemic, are taking several preventive measures. Among the other steps are increased ‘open house’ interactions, setting up of panels to check caste bias and roping in family members to help engage with students facing any mental health issues. ALSO READ | Darshan Solanki, Stephen Sunny & Many More: Why Suicides by India’s Brightest Are Puncturing IIT Dream This year, by July, 20 student suicides have been reported across top-ranking higher education institutes, of which seven are from different IITs. Of these, five took place at IIT-Madras, while one each has been reported at IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi. With 39 such deaths being reported at various IITs between 2018 and 2023 (till date), the premier technical institutes have seen ...