No provision of health insurance for IIT Bombay students: APPSC

As per a post shared by the Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study (APPSC) cell of IIT Bombay on Twitter, students pay INR 1750 medical fee and INR 250 student accident insurance fund every semester and they were promised that a medical insurance policy document for them will be prepared and circulated soon. 

According to the Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study (APPSC) cell of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, there is no provision of medical insurance policy for students of the institute even though they are paying INR 1750 as medical fee and INR 250 as insurance fee. 

A post from APPSC IIT Bombay on Twitter said, “There is no medical insurance policy for students at @iitbombay even though students pay 1750 as medical fee and 250 as insurance fee. The procedure for availing of medical expenses is completely arbitrary and opaque. Despite the promise of making a proper document, nothing is done.” 

The post further said, "As a result of fee hike protests in August 2022, it was agreed by administration that the current system was arbitrary and opaque. It was promised to students that a medical insurance policy document will be prepared and circulated soon.” 

Earlier also, an RTI plea filed by APPSC revealed that 19 of the 23 IITs have dedicated cells for the welfare of historically marginalised Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (SC-ST) students. Of them, 16 are non-functional. As per the RTI data received by APPSC, 18 cells have no funds allocated, 16 have not conducted any events after August 2022. These 16 include IIT BHU, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Hyderabad, and IIT Bhubaneswar.  

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