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58% of students who lose their lives to suicide in IITs, NITs and other central institutions belong to these marginalized communities. Most dropouts and students who were expelled are also either Dalits or Bahujans. Instead of examining the conditions that lead to such statistics, people are very quick to claim that this is why reservations are bad even for those who avail them.
As recently as April 2021, a video circulated on the internet. A professor from IIT-KGP was seen abusing SC/ST students in an online class. They were even taunting students to complain about them to the SC/ST Ministry. This clearly shows that the professor is confident that the upper-caste dominated administration would protect them. Another blatantly casteist incident is the closing of Krishna Gate. In late 2019, IIT-M shut the gate connecting the campus to Vellacherry, a Dalit populated area. More about this - [IIT Madras Under Fire For Casteism After Shutting Off Gate Leading To Dalit Community](https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/iit-madras-casteism-gate-dalit-community_in_5e380cb1c5b611ac94d86d64)
As recently as April 2021, a video circulated on the internet. A professor from IIT-KGP was seen abusing SC/ST students in an online class. They were even taunting students to complain about them to the SC/ST Ministry. This clearly shows that the professor is confident that the upper-caste dominated administration would protect them. Another blatantly casteist incident is the closing of Krishna Gate. In late 2019, IIT-M shut the gate connecting the campus to Vellacherry, a Dalit populated area. More about this - <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/iit-madras-casteism-gate-dalit-community_in_5e380cb1c5b611ac94d86d64" style="color:blue" ><u>IIT Madras Under Fire For Casteism After Shutting Off Gate Leading To Dalit Community</u></a>
In 2011, Manish Kumar, a Dalit student of IIT-R, commited suicide ‘due to depression’ as stated by the police. However, Manish’s family claims that casteist abuses from their peers, inaction of administration and being forced to live outside of campus instead of acting on their complaints lead him to completely losing faith and henceforth, ending their life. Source - [The Death of Merit: Manish Kumar (IIT Roorkee) [A Documentary]](https://thedeathofmeritinindia.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/the-death-of-merit-manish-kumar-iit-roorkee/)
In 2011, Manish Kumar, a Dalit student of IIT-R, commited suicide ‘due to depression’ as stated by the police. However, Manish’s family claims that casteist abuses from their peers, inaction of administration and being forced to live outside of campus instead of acting on their complaints lead him to completely losing faith and henceforth, ending their life. Source - <a href="https://thedeathofmeritinindia.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/the-death-of-merit-manish-kumar-iit-roorkee/" style="color:blue"><u>The Death of Merit: Manish Kumar (IIT Roorkee) [A Documentary]</u></a>
Casteism in “institutes of national importance” isn’t only faced by students. Multiple professors have resigned in the past three years owing to caste-discrimination. Less than 3% of faculties among all IITs are Dalits. Reservation rules for faculty hiring are already violated in IITs. Out of the 6043 faculties in IITs, only 149 are from SC and 21 from ST communities. As of 2018, out of the 745 faculty posts at IIT-R, only 12 of them are filled up by Dalits. Thirteen IITs - Kharagpur, Bombay, Kanpur, Ropar, Gandhinagar, Bhubaneshwar, Jammu, Goa, Bhilai, Indore, Jodhpur, Palakkad and Patna have zero faculty members from ST communities.
Data - [http://164.100.24.220/loksabhaquestions/annex/16/AS267.pdf](http://164.100.24.220/loksabhaquestions/annex/16/AS267.pdf)
Data - <a href="http://164.100.24.220/loksabhaquestions/annex/16/AS267.pdf" style="color:blue"><u>AS267.pdf</u></a>
Moreover, in 2020, a government panel along with Directors was supposed to suggest measures for the effective implementation of reservation norms. Instead, they recommended that IITs should be exempted from reservation for faculty hiring as they are “institutes of national importance” and “in order to compete with other top institutions in the world in terms of excellence, output, research and teaching”. This implicitly suggests that the panel believed that the presence of Dalits and Bahujan faculties in their institutes has led to a decrease in the ‘quality’ of the institute.