Panel to probe suicides in IITs
Wednesday September 14, 2011 10:45:22 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A task
force has been set up to look into the increasing number of
suicides in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Human
Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Wednesday.
Talking to reporters after a meeting of the prestigious
institutes' governing body IIT Council here Sibal said the task
force will look into the present system and review the reasons of
increasing suicide cases.
Asked if the task force will also review the grading system, which
has been blamed for causing depression among students, Sibal said:
"Various issues will be considered."
At least seven suicide cases have been reported in IITs so far
this year alone.
In the most recent case, a third-year Computer Science student of
IIT-Patna, Yalavarthi Sweeya, committed suicide by jumping from
the rooftop of her four-storeyed hostel.
According to police, she was upset about not being able to secure
good grades in her exams.
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