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[ad_1] 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 ...

[ad_1] Applications for the 2023 batch are currently open with 50 seats for the BS course and 20 seats for the M Tech course. (File photo/Twitter) The first offshore campus of the Indian Institute of Technology has also become the first-ever IIT to have a woman director, Prof Preeti Aghalayam Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras is going to launch India’s first global campus in Zanzibar-Tanzania, East Africa, on October 25, which will become the first IIT ever to be headed by a woman director. To start with, the campus will offer a BS degree in data science and AI and an M Tech degree in the same discipline. The new international campus will be headed by Prof Preeti Aghalayam, dean of the School of Science and Engineering at IIT Madras , who will now take charge of the Zanzibar campus as its director, the institute announced on Monday. The governments of India and Tanzania had last week signed an MoU to this effect. Applications for the 2023 batch are currently open with 50...