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45 Student Suicides in IITs Over 5 Years, Many From Reserved Categories
A total of 45 students have died by suicide across 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the past five years. Of these, 28 victims belonged to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) groups. The data covers the period from 2018 to 2022.
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