UGC sets up fact-finding committee to look into KIIT-Bhubaneswar student suicides
UGC
) has set up a
fact-finding committee
to look into consecutive
student suicides
at KIIT-Bhubaneshwar, officials said on Friday. The panel was constituted after a 20-year-old
Nepalese student
of the
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
(
KIIT
) in Odisha's
Bhubaneswar
was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her hostel room.
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The incident comes after the suicide of
Prakriti Lamsal
, another Nepalese student of the same institute on February 16.
"UGC has constituted a Fact-Finding Committee under the Chairmanship of
Prof. Nageshwar Rao
, Former VC, IGNOU to look into the students' suicide cases at KIIT, Bhubaneswar and suggest measures to prevent such incidents in future," said UGC Secretary
Manish Joshi
.
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The panel has been asked to submit the fact-finding report within 10 days.
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