The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday flagged repeated suicides among IIT students, saying that if this was the situation at the best institutes in the country, one could imagine the state of the rest.
If this is the situation at our best institutions, imagine the state of the rest,” Dipke wrote. Taking to the social media platform X, Dipke said that the IITs have witnessed 65 student suicides in the last 5 years. This comes days after a 31-year-old IIT Delhi student, pursuing an MSc in Physics, allegedly died by suicide on the campus. “IITs, considered among the best educational institutions in our country, have witnessed 65 student suicides in the last five years. The 31-year-old student allegedly jumped from the sixth floor of the Lecture Hall Complex (LHC) at the IIT Delhi campus on Saturday. Deputy commissioner of police (southwest) Amit Goel said that around 8.33am on Saturday, the police control room received a call regarding a student jumping from a building at the IIT Delhi campus.
The CJP founder, who has been leading a ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign, said that the country needs a “complete overhaul of our education system”. Police said no suicide note was recovered from the student’s possession or from the incident spot, and they were trying to ascertain the exact reason behind the step.
