News DeskLast Updated: 24 Jan 2026, 10:22 am ISTShare Data obtained under the Right to Information Act (RTI) reveal that IIT Kanpur recorded the highest number of cases during this period Representational Image | IANS At least 40 students across 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have died by suicide in the two-and-a-half years since the Union government issued guidelines aimed at preventing such deaths, raising questions about the effectiveness and monitoring of the measures. Data highlights and campus trendsAlso ReadPatna NEET aspirant death: Autopsy confirms sexual assault; police suicide claim collapses2 girls found dead in SAI hostel in Kollam; probe underway‘Humiliated over skin tone’: Bengaluru dental student death sparks major probe12-year-old Navodaya student found hanging in hostel; family alleges assault by staff‘Sorry Mummy Papa’: Engineering student in Chhattisgarh dies by suicide over exam pressureMalayali student dies in Gujarat after alleged suicide attempt; students blame college and hospital As per a report by the Telegraph, data obtained under the Right to Information Act (RTI) reveal that IIT Kanpur recorded the highest number of cases during this period, with nine deaths, followed by IIT Kharagpur with eight. The figures form part of a broader trend that has seen 67 student suicides reported across IIT campuses between 2021 and 2025.
