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An official said on Tuesday that Kolkata, in view of unnatural deaths of three student boarders at IIT Kharagpur campus within a year, the Premier Engineering Institute is taking steps to make the students feel that they are under tremendous stress due to academic pressure, an official said on Tuesday.
IIT Kharagpur acting director Amit Patra told PTI that the presence policy that balances a student between personal welfare and educational performance is discussing some reforms and a decision will come very soon.
However, there may be factors on the individual front beyond academic pressure that can trigger mental stress and depression on a youth’s brain, which requires intensive consultation for their mental good. A student is encouraged to reach the institute for counseling in moments of depression, said the students’ dean Bharagava Maitra.
Asked if the attendance policy would be relaxed, the acting director said, “I am not saying so. What do I mean, a teacher can be a bit strict about the attendance percentage, while the other can be a little generous without affecting someone’s educational performance. But each teacher is concerned on the issue of maintaining discipline and educational standards and no reduction on a limit after a limit”.
“In real matters, when a student cannot achieve the required percentage of appearance due to boycott on the individual front, the institute always considers its position. Now the Senate will take a call on ways to bring reforms in the presence policy for every student’s profit without affecting its educational performance and does not allow him to take uncontrolled benefits,” said the tip.
Weekly testing and attendance are the required conditions in a student’s academic calendar. “We have to attack the balance wherever we need, without affecting educational aspects,” he said.
Asked whether at least 75 percent of the attendance will be reconsidered on the issue of de-registration of any student to not achieve the percentage, Patra said, “Everything will be discussed in the Senate meeting. If a student has intense mental stress, it is caused by de-sejection that is always considered on the basis of case-by-case.
“Now our highest decision -making body will take stock of the arranges, the arrangements, whether it is enough for the good of the students and whatever more steps and improvement is required.”
For another query, Patra said that the committee is almost created to look at the factors behind the unnatural deaths of the students in the premises formed among the stakeholders of the institute and the terms of its context will be announced in a day or two.
The committee has been tasked to check the institutional aid system and environment for hostel boarders in terms of recent tragedies and suggest whatever is needed to be done.
On May 4, the third year civil engineering student MD Asif Qamar was found hanging in his hostel room, the fourth year of the fourth year ocean engineering and naval architecture student Annic Walker was found hanging in his hostel room.
On January 12, the body of the third year graduate student Sean Malik was found hanging in his hostel room.
In June 2024, Devika Pillai, a fourth year student of biotechnology and biochemical engineering, died of suicide.
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