COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF 198 IIT ASPIRANTS, STUDENTS & ALUMNI WHO ATTEMPTED OR COMMITTED SUCIDE (1981-2022)
Commemorating the World Suicide Prevention Day, 10th of September
RAM KRISHNASWAMY, B.TECH 1970, IIT MADRAS and founder of IIT Global - the precursor to the Pan IIT Movement - alarmed by the rising number of suicides in IITs created a comprehensive blog
https://iitsuicides.blogspot.com/
to document the media reports of suicides at IITs and also to create a resource material to this effect.
STATISTICS
Suicide count of known suicides listed in the Blog from 1981 to 2016
IIT Kanpur: 21 | IIT Kharagpur 21 | IIT Madras 19 | IIT Bombay: 14 | IIT Guwahati 10 | IIT Roorkee 8 | IIT Delhi: 6 | IIT Hyderabad 4 | IIT Gandhi Nagar 2 | Other New IITs 3
Year wise Count (1981 - 2019) :: Total 127
1981 - 1, 1987 - 1, 1999 - 1, 2003 - 1, 2004 - 1, 2005 - 4. 2006 - 5, 2007 - 3, 2008 - 5, 2009 - 8. 2010 - 6, 2011 - 10, 2012 - 3, 2013 - 5, 2014 - 14, 2015 - 7, 2016 - 7, 2017 - 6, 2018 - 15, 2019 - 14
Year Wise Media Reports on IIT Suicides
Let’s Light a Candle at 8 pm tonight near a window to Remember these Brilliant Lost Souls…
2020 - IIT Kgp (1)