Student suicide issue: IIT conducts parent-teacher meets, counselling

Not a single suicide has been reported at IIT Guwahati since the introduction of creative centre

Amid about 10 instances of suicide or attempted suicide since 2016, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across India have geared up to take measures to prevent these. Some of the steps taken by the IITs include parent-teacher meetings and counselling to help distressed students. 

On April 5 2017, a second-year B Tech Mining Engineering student and inmate of Ramanujan hostel of IIT  allegedly committed suicide by first setting himself ablaze and then jumping off the third floor of his hostel building. Poor performance in an examination was cited as a reason. 

In another instance, a 19-year-old student of IIT-Delhi, who was