Congress accuses Centre of hiding IIT student suicide data

The Congress on Tuesday (September 22, 2026) alleged that the government withheld data on suicides at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and claimed that more than half of the students who died by suicide in the premier institutions over the past five years belonged to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities.

Congress general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal alleged that the Ministry of Education had deliberately excluded suicide-related data from its response to a parliamentary question he had raised in December 2025.

“When I raised this question in Parliament in a question to be tabled on 8th December 2025, the Ministry gave a vague response and evades disclosing specific numbers,” Mr. Venugopal said in a post on X.