NEW DELHI: Around 98 students have taken their lives in premier educational institutes since 2018, of which 39 were from IITs , 25 from NITs, 25 from central universities, four from IIMs, but educational institutions do not seem serious about the problem as 57,000 educational institutes including most of the IITs, IIMs, AIIMSs and NITs are not cooperating and participating in the survey being conducted by an apex court-appointed panel to deal with the problem of suicides on campuses. Supreme Court said it was thoroughly disappointed with the lack of response from the institutes. Senior advocate Aparna Bhat, who is assisting the court as amicus curiae, told a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan that the list of non-cooperating institutes include 17 IITs, 15 IIMs, 16 AIIM

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