A committee set up in March last year by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, to suggest reforms in the face of an institutional and campus meltdown has submitted a report recommending sweeping changes to address a gamut of problems. The most important trigger for the institution of the 12-member committee, headed by Santosh Kumar Chaturvedi, a senior psychiatrist from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, and including student representatives and former and serving faculty members, had likely been five student suicides in 2023 and 2024. A toxic culture on campus had prompted repeated demands for reforms from the institute’s student community. Among the major problems flagged as........

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