In March this year, four students of the institute had allegedly died by suicide. This move has been taken to restrict access to these means of self-harm by the students.
With an aim to prevent student suicides, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has decided to replace ceiling fans with wall-mounted fans at its hostels. The management has also decided to restrict the student's entry to terraces and narrow balconies.
In March this year, four students of the institute had allegedly died by suicide. This move has been taken to restrict access to these means of self-harm by the students.
Meanwhile, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has presented the data in Lok Sabha that revealed that the educational institutions like Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) along with central universities saw a total of 122 suicide cases.
IISc students have also conducted an internal poll and it was found that out of 305 participants, 273 (88 per cent) said they didn't want the ceiling fan in their room replaced with a wall-mounted fan, 14 agreed to the change, and 18 said they didn't care.
In another question asked during the survey that whether they feel that the replacement of fans will help curb student suicides. To this, 267 students said no, 19 voted yes, and 19 said they didn't have an informed opinion on the matter. On the basis of this poll, the students have written a mail to the chairman of the IISc student's council. According to the letter, students "see no worth in its [replacing ceiling fans with wall mounted fans] value proposition."
In the past eight years, premier technical institutions and central universities witnessed 58 percent of student suicides from the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and minority communities, the Ministry data had revealed.
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