After two Dalit students allegedly committed suicide at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi in the past two months, a campus-wide survey on caste discrimination circulated by the institute’s Board of Student Publications (BSP) was been suspended within hours of commencing.
As soon as the survey was shared, complaints said the survey’s design was “biased, insensitive, and problematic”, with the institute’s official Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST) Cell stating that it had not been consulted on the survey.
“The cell was officially never consulted about this matter. The chairperson of the cell was never made aware about a survey or the questions that were supposed to be in it. We will examine the said survey,” the chairperson of the SC/ST Cell told The Hindu.
