IIT Kanpur to de-stress PG students-Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to cut down students stress- IIT Kanpur has come up distress policy for PG first years students. The policy is a ‘no termination based on first semester performance’ policy to help postgraduate (PG) students. The purpose of this is to cut down students stress.
The policy will be implemented from July onwards when the session begins. It is a major academic reforms to come into force post a recent spate of student suicides on campus
IIT Kanpur one of the first generation IIT, the institute in the past had seen three such incidents on campus between December 19, 2023 and January 18 this year, which included two research scholars and an MTech student allegedly dying of suicide.
In one such case, The students committed suicide shortly after a he was issued a termination notice by the institute while he could not make an appeal against it in time.