Overview

• The newly appointed counsellors will move across campus, engage informally with students and researchers, and meet them individually or in groups to assess mental health.
• Director Suman Chakraborty said the outreach is designed to reach reticent students, with visits planned to hostels, sports clubs and other gathering spots.
• A fact-finding team set up to examine unnatural deaths on campus was scheduled to meet on Monday to review recent cases.
• Existing supports continue, including the Setu mobile app, the Board of Hope, a dean for student well-being, and barcodes on hostel doors linking to a 24/7 counselling number.
• The latest case involved 27-year-old Harshkumar Pandey of Ranchi, a Mechanical Engineering PhD scholar found in BR Ambedkar Hall on September 20, with five such deaths reported since January.