“By the time students come to IIT, they are tired of endless studying and they want to enjoy a bit. The Union human resource development ministry has been asking all IITs to take new initiatives, in addition to the existing measures, to stem the trend of student suicides. The issue drew attention after the recent suicide by an IIT Kharagpur student, the third such case at the institute in this year. There is no consolidated data available about the number of student suicides across IITs. But student suicides have been a cause for concern with previous governments as well.

Source: The Telegraph May 03, 2017 11:15 UTC