Congress accuses Centre of hiding IIT student suicide data
Party cites report claiming that more than half of those who died by suicide in IITs over the past 5 years were from SC, ST, OBC communities
The Congress party has accused the government of withholding data on suicides at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), alleging that more than half of the students who died by suicide in these premier institutions over the past five years belonged to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities.
Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal claimed that the Ministry of Education deliberately excluded suicide-related data from its response to a parliamentary question he had raised in December 2025. The Congress leader linked the issue to the death of Sahil Wakode, an SC student at IIT-Bombay, and demanded an explanation from the government on why the data was not disclosed.
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