India, May 11 -- The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has announced a series of measures-including the formation of an expert committee, round-the-clock access to in-person counsellors, QR codes in hostel rooms, and a structured counselling calendar-to help prevent deaths by suicide among students.

After a third-year civil engineering student was found dead in his hostel room on May 4, the third death by suicide on IIT Kharagpur campus this year and the ninth in the last five years, dean of students Bhargab Maitra said that a committee comprising psychiatrists, psychologists, a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, ex-IITians from Kharagpur, and retired professors who were in charge of student affairs during their ten...