Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Kanpur Once Again

IIT Kanpur has topped the student suicide charts among all the IITs
for at least last 5 years, may be more, I don't know about previous
years. And, it is unwilling to let go of this position.

It is high time IIT Kanpur did something to stop producing a depressed
student batch year after year after year.

I wonder if there is a single student batch in IIT Kanpur, which
can claim to have graduated without losing at least one of their
batchmates to suicides.

If they can't do anything to rectify this, it would be best to shut
down this institute in the best interest of thousands of students'
psychological and mental health.

Here are some news stories on the topic.

IIT-Kanpur student commits suicide
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
Prashant had joined IIT in July last year and was living in the hostel. His family also lives in Kanpur. The police are investigating the reason behind the ...

IIT student suicide

Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Prashant Kumar, a city resident who was a electrical engineering student, locked himself in his hostel room in the hall number 2 around 12.30pm, IIT ...
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Father alleges caste prejudice behind IIT-K student’s suicide

Lucknow Newsline - Lucknow,India
The authorities of the IIT-K, however, quickly rejected Kureel’s allegations. Rejecting the alleged caste biasness at the institute Deputy Director Kripa ...
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