How Dogs Get Treated at IIT Madras

 

Who ever is Responsible for this Animal Cruelty should be charged and thrown into a Cage with no water or food for weeks

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After petition, IIT-Madras gives custody of 3 ill dogs to NGO

Komal Gautham 

TNN / Updated: Oct 23, 2021, 09:28 IST

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After petition, IIT-Madras gives custody of 3 ill dogs to NGO



One of the gravely ill dogs

CHENNAI: Three gravely ill dogs kept in an enclosure at IIT-Madras were released into the care of People for Animals on Wednesday after the NGO petitioned the institute.

PFA's Shirnai Pareira, who went to seek release of 14 dogs, could get custody of only three. The veterinarian who treated the dogs after their release said they appeared dehydrated and deprived of food.

Since October 4, 2020, IIT-M has kept 186 stray dogs in confinement on campus. In an inspection this August, the animal husbandry department found 14 dogs to be sick. NGOs had sought the release of these dogs for treatment. The dogs were just four to six years old. On an inspection visit this month, health minister Ma Subramanian had raised objections to keeping the dogs caged.

After the deaths of over 45 dogs in the past few months, a police complaint was lodged against IIT-M registrar Jane Prasad and others by animal activist Harish of Bangalore. Prasad did not respond to messages from TOI.

IITM Registrar Jane Prasad

Animal activist Saraswathi Mopuru said IIT-M has accepted that 56 dogs have died. They should hand over the care of the dogs to someone else instead of locking them up this way, she said.

Suicide News Dated 23rd Oct 2021

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Madhya Pradesh: IIT student commits suicide due to depression in Indore

Madhya Pradesh: IIT student commits suicide due to depression in Indore
PTI / Oct 21, 2021, 19:06 IST

The police recovered a suicide note from the scene, in which the victim had allegedly written “I quit”, with details about his studies and family, expressing disappointment, the official said. 

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INDORE: A 19-year-old student of IIT-Kharagpur allegedly committed suicide at his home in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city, police said on Thursday.

The body of Sarthak Vijayvat was found hanging in the balcony of his residence in Scheme 78 area on Wednesday, an additional superintendent of police (ASP) said.

The police recovered a suicide note from the scene, in which the victim had allegedly written “I quit”, with details about his studies and family, expressing disappointment, the official said.
Sarthak had been attending virtual lectures from his home, he said, adding that the deceased's father Jayant Vijayvat is posted in the Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) as an additional director.

“We are examining the letter. Prima facie, it appears that Sarthak was suffering from depression, because of which he took such an extreme step. Further investigations are on,” the official added.

India needs to do more for its students through access to student loans - The Print

India needs to do more for its students through access to student loans

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

AAKRITI ADHIKARI 

20 October, 2021 2:03 pm IST

Students in classroom maintaining social distance | Representational Image | ANI

India gets by so much, not flawlessly but we do. Sometimes the excuse is population, sometimes economy, or religion.

It is not a pandemic issue, it is not an unprecedented issue, but it is a glaring one. In college, at the precipice of economic responsibility/ anxiety, it is more apparent to me than it was in school.

When I think about how the school system needs reform, I conveniently ignore the fact that most government schools don’t even have what I do. I don’t need to quote statistics to make my point (like how I was told to do for my English board exam to fetch better marks in article writing).

In our education system, there is a format for everything, and by everything, I mean grades. Grades determine whether or not you’ll get into a college and course of your choice.

Having said that, I still don’t despise board exams. Intellectually, they are not stimulating, and students are told to tone down their opinions, ideas and vocabulary, to write in a safe format to fetch better grades. So they teach you to work smartly and efficiently, to be disciplined and manage pressure. But are they worth it in their current ‘format’?

A phrase commonly heard in middle and upper-middle-class students is: “Getting into an average college abroad is still better than an above-average college here, unless of course, it is IIT, AIMS, IIM, NLU, etc.”.

In lower-middle-class and poor families you won’t hear this phrase. The lottery of birth was unkind to them, and given the social mobility of our country, they’ll be stuck in that socio-economic sphere for a calculably long time. In that sphere of existence, studying abroad is not even an option. Going abroad for a blue-collar job on the pretext of a diploma – yes, but for education – no. Even studying within India is a guarded aspiration.

The students from non-taxable income households, in order to improve their socio-economic status, will have to crack national-level competitive exams and get into the top schools and secure the best grades to land a high paying private job, or crack government exams, the forms/results/offer letters that appear like the Loch Ness monster, on their own discretion.

They’ll have to crack these uber-competitive exams without the resources that the students from taxable income households have, such as expensive coaching, study material, internet, other social exposures, etc.

During the first lockdown, we saw suicide rates jump up due to economic pressures. How does that reflect on the families that are left behind with fatal loss, daily expenses and compounding interest?

I personally know students who after the loss of an earning member of their family had to switch from a college that would provide placements to less expensive colleges that don’t even offer decent education, let alone placements. There are students who have to pass off opportunities to study in a good college because student loan is not a viable option for their family and future.

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I write about the vicious cycle above the poverty line. I dare not write about what I don’t know, but I am sure it is harder for the ones who don’t have schools, to begin with, which my privilege would have hidden from me for a while longer had it not been for this pandemic.

My average grades and failed attempts at various competitive exams have made me resilient, but is it an employable skill with my humble college degree?

With so much already spent on my education, will my family get any Return on Investment? Is it a question of my competence or is there really a gap between the education and economic system?

The action and reaction that is money and opportunity not only maintain but also widens the gap between the two Indias we get to read about during republic and Independence Day and sometimes during budget announcements. The two Indias have different qualities of education and hence job opportunities.

Do I leave this open-ended, the way I prefer, or state the obvious demand for increased focus and budget for education institutions at all levels, like how my teachers taught me to do in my board exams?

The author is a student of Mata Sundri College for Women, Delhi University. Views are personal.

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IIT-Delhi student dies by suicide in hostel

IIT-Delhi student dies by suicide in hostel
| Wednesday | 20th October, 2021

The IIT Delhi director said that the student was found by his hostel mates and rushed to AIIMS where he was declared brought dead.

Today, a fourth year student of Engineering Physics at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Samarpit Sahu, died at his hostel.

IIT Delhi director, V Ramgopal Rao informed students via mail and said “it pains us to inform you that he took his own life”.

The IIT Delhi director said that the student was found by his hostel mates and rushed to AIIMS where he was declared brought dead.

Rao further said that they do not know much about the incident at this moment and will inform everyone once they get to know more.

Earlier in June, a mechanical engineering student, Hari Prasath, studying in third year at IIT Delhi died by suicide in his hostel.

Prasath was dealing with depression and was undergoing treatment on the campus. While he was doing well until the second year at the institute, he started struggling with studies thereafter, the letter from IIT Delhi said in June.

Following Prasath`s death, some students of the institute issued a statement in which they cited language barrier and cultural isolation to be some of the reasons behind students’ suicide.

Those students had demanded a "fully empowered institute-level commission" including at least 50% members from students to investigate the incident.

IIT Delhi has lost several students over the past few years to suicide. In November 2019, a first-year student died in hospital after committing suicide on campus.

In December 2019, the education ministry had told Parliament that 50 IIT students had died by suicide over the previous five years.

IITs witness 50 suicides in 5 years; 14 at IIT Guwahati alone

IITs witness 50 suicides in 5 years; 14 at IIT Guwahati alone

Student protest demanding enquiry into the suicides (Credit: AISA)

Team Careers360 | 

Dec 3, 2019 - 5:40 p.m. IST

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have seen 50 suicides in five years, the human resource development minister told Lok Sabha on December 2. 

The suicides took place at 12 of 23 IITs.

With 14 deaths in the last 5 years, IIT Guwahati had the maximum number of student suicides, followed by IIT Bombay and IIT Madras, which saw seven suicides each.

The ongoing investigations into the suicide of an IIT Madras humanity student, Fathima Lateef, and the death of an IIT Delhi student who jumped off a seven-storey building have brought the frequency of deaths at IITs into focus.

According to reports, there were four student suicides at the IITs in October and November.



‘Systems in place’

“Systems are in place in IITs to enquire and take action in all complaints from students in IIT campuses, which includes Student Grievance Cell, Disciplinary Action Committee, Counselling Centres, etc.,” said Pokhriyal.

However, the efficacy of these “systems” are under a scanner as they have been operational for the past five years when the number of suicides increased across the campuses.

Meanwhile, the minister also informed that Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) saw 10 suicides across eight campuses in the last 5 years.

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IIT Delhi final-year engineering physics student dies by suicide in hostel

IIT Delhi final-year engineering physics student dies by suicide in hostel

IIT Delhi director V Ramgopal Rao announced the news and said that investigations are on about reasons behind the death.

IIT Delhi student dies by suicide
Vagisha Kaushik | 

Oct 19, 2021 - 9:42 p.m. 

NEW DELHI: A fourth-year student of Engineering Physics at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Samarpit Sahu, died at his hostel today. IIT Delhi director, V Ramgopal Rao informed students via mail and said “it pains us to inform you that he took his own life”.

The IIT Delhi director said that the student was found by his hostel mates and rushed to AIIMS where he was declared brought dead.

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Rao further said that they do not know much about the incident at this moment and will inform everyone once they get to know more.

Earlier in June, a mechanical engineering student, Hari Prasath, studying in third year at IIT Delhi died by suicide in his hostel.

Prasath was dealing with depression and was undergoing treatment on the campus. While he was doing well until the second year at the institute, he started struggling with studies thereafter, the letter from IIT Delhi said in June.

Following Prasath's death, some students of the institute issued a statement in which they cited language barrier and cultural isolation to be some of the reasons behind students’ suicide.

Those students had demanded a "fully empowered institute-level commission" including at least 50% members from students to investigate the incident.

Also Read | IITs witness 50 suicides in 5 years; 14 at IIT Guwahati alone

IIT Delhi has lost several students over the past few years to suicide. In November 2019, a first-year student died in hospital after committing suicide on campus.

In December 2019, the education ministry had told Parliament that 50 IIT students had died by suicide over the previous five years.

If you, or anyone you know, needs help, AASRA has a list of resources here: http://www.aasra.info/helpline.html

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World Mental Health Day: Everything you need to know about the situation in India

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Sunday, October 10, 2021,

World Mental Health Day: 

Everything you need to know about the situation in India

The country needs now more than ever to ramp up its focus towards this burning issue

Dr Harish Shetty

In 2017, President Ram Nath Kovind said that "India was facing a possible mental health epidemic" and stressed the need to provide access to treatment facilities to those suffering from mental disorders by 2022. 

What made things even more alarming was a report by the Ministry of Health and ICMR in December 2019 that stated that 1/7 Indians were mentally ill. That means that a staggering 20 crore Indians are battling mental health issues.

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Status of Mental Health facilities

There are approximately 9000 Psychiatrists and not enough Psychologists, Medical Social Workers, Counselors and others. 

There has been a lot of enthusiasm to build IIMs, IITs, AIIMS across India with the belief that the country needs more management graduates, engineers and medical facilities. 

Building a trillion-dollar economy is important, but in an era of massive angst due to globalisation and rapid social change, we need more graduates in mental health. Somewhere the stigma and poor awareness is not only among the ordinary Indian but also among policymakers and politicians ruling the country.

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The National Mental Health Policy of India, October 2014, states, "The vision is to promote mental health, prevent mental illness, promote destigmatisation, desegregation and ensure socio-economic inclusion of persons affected by mental illness by providing accessible. affordable and quality health and social care to all persons across their lifespan within a rights-based framework." This needs to be implemented, and the words need to translate into action!

Health workers are important

The country does not need a top-heavy mental health system. A couple of decades ago, when I asked the Executive Health Officer of BMC why our health workers are not trained to screen families for mental disorders and suicide, the answer I got was, "We are more interested in the treatment of malaria and dengue among the poor, and mental illness exists among the rich." Things have not changed much. The zeal to identify covid +ve cases has been path-breaking, but the strategy to screen those affected by the mental health pandemic has been dismal across the country.

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The poor are more affected

The NCRB 2019 figures clearly show that nearly 1/4 who die of suicide are daily wage labourers. Mental health is not about feelings alone but also about food. As the centre rolls out the Swachh Bharat Mission 2 across the country, money and food to the poor, a program for mental health awareness needs to be initiated all over with the same intensity and magnitude. To quell the epidemic, one needs a mental health movement and massive programs. This needs political will, which is in abundance.

Identifying Early Signs

Just as early signs of covid, malaria and dengue are publicised similarly, early signs of mental illness such as a change in behaviour, appetite, sleep, lack of interest in work, sadness, crying spells, hearing imaginary voices also need attention. A massive social media blitzkrieg is important. Unfortunately, chats of Chief Ministers across states to the people at large are devoid of any mental health input. This blindness is shocking.

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The Road Ahead

India achieved a reduction of 83.34 per cent in malaria morbidity and 92 per cent in malaria mortality between the years 2000 to 2019. TB deaths in India in 2019 were 79,000, whereas deaths due to suicide in the same year were 1,39,123. While there are massive TB treatment and prevention programs across the country that W.H.O has lauded, the same can't be said about suicide. There is still no 'Suicide Prevention Policy' in the country.

India can do it if it wills! Posters by the MCGM across housing complexes against dengue made their appearance when cases increased but not for mental health. 

We need a Mental Health Minister both at the centre and the states as well as commissioners in Districts to bring focus and strategy in fighting mental illness. On this World Mental health Day, let us pledge to build a mental health movement across the country. A robust economy can never survive alongside fractured minds and sad hearts!