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- The Central Information Commission has directed all IITs to form high-level committees to recommend measures for preventing student suicides, while disposing of RTI appeals filed by an IIT-Kanpur alumnus who had sought details of deaths at IIT-Madras, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Goa and IIT-Jodhpur since 2005.
- The institutes provided some data, such as the number of deaths, dates, gender and native place, but withheld personal details like names, age and caste, citing privacy exemptions under the RTI Act, a decision the CIC upheld.
- The institutes reported seven suicides at IIT-Madras between 2019 and mid-2025, 17 at IIT-Kanpur between 2005 and 2025, none at IIT-Jodhpur, while IIT-Goa also denied personal details.
- The CIC called the recurring suicides a 'persistent crisis' and asked IITs to proactively disclose committee details on their websites.
What to watch next
- Constitution and composition of the high-level committees at individual IITs and their disclosure on institute websites
- Recommendations the committees make to mitigate factors contributing to student suicides
- Whether future RTI attempts succeed in obtaining disaggregated data such as age, caste and social category of the deceased
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