IIT to remove ceiling fans to curb suicides
Appanna S K
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IIT to remove ceiling fans to curb suicides
Kanpur: The four-member team at IIT-Kanpur, probing the suicide of Civil Engineering student Madhuri Sale, has come with a plan to help prevent suicides in hostels: replace ceiling fans with pedestal fans.
In the last five years, eight IITians have committed suicide -- five of them hanged themselves in their hostel rooms. Another proposal is to end allotment of single rooms to students -- now, a student gets a single room from the second year.
Sale, 21, a resident of Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh and a fourth-year student at IIT-K, hanged herself from the ceiling fan with a rope on November 17.
A four-member committee comprising Prof Omkar Dixit, Prof Mukesh Sharma, Prof A K Ghosh and member of the student gymkhana, C Rahul, was formed to probe the reasons.
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