IIT Guwahati Student From Kerala Commits Suicide

GUWAHATI: A student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati reportedly committed suicide in his hostel room on Friday night.

The deceased, identified as one Surya Narayan Premkishore, was a Btech student from Kerala. He is said to be a final year undergraduate student of Design Department at IIT-G.

The reason for him taking the extreme step is yet to be ascertained.

Amingaon police reached the scene soon after receiving a report about it and recovered the body for post mortem

Police sources said Surya, who hails from Kerala, was found hanging in his hostel room. No suicide note was recovered.

"He was found hanging in his hostel room. We have taken the body for post mortem," an officer from Amingaon police station said. "Further investigation is going on", he added.

A statement from the IIT-G administrative office said, "It is with great sadness that IIT Guwahati announces the untimely passing away of a final year undergraduate student of Design Department on the campus. The institute has informed the parents of the student and they are on their way to Guwahati."

There have been several cases of IIT-G students dying by suicide over a decade.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development had on December 2, 2019, told Parliament that the IIT-G reported 14 student deaths, including suicides. In the last five years, it was the highest number of deaths in any of the 23 IITs for the given period, the ministry said.

In September 2018, an 18-year-old student of IIT-G died by suicide as she was unhappy about having to study engineering, the police had said, citing a letter she had left behind. Nagashree S.C. from Hosanagara in Karnataka, wrote in the suicide note that she was sorry that she could not fulfill the expectations of her parents.

Again in January 2019, a fourth semester B.Tech student from Andhra Pradesh, identified as Pannem Pavan Siddardha, was found hanging in his hostel room.

Kota Onoda, a student from Japan's Gifu University, who was on a three-month exchange programme. He was found dead more than a week before he was to return home on November 30, 2019, after completing his programme at the IITG's Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering.

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