2016 Health Center

2016-08 Protests around Health Center

A massive protest of students broke out between August 8-10, 2016 on death of their colleague in Health Center, due to alleged negligence. A summary of what happened is contained in this document released by the concerned faculty members:

• Timeline of protests.

There are several other documents, letters, and protest notes that are available in this context and are listed below:

• Amar Ujala News

• 2016-09-19 Critical Review of Fact Finding report by Ashok Gupta, Ex-President, IITKAA.

• 2016-08-26 Open letter by 17 IITK Faculty members to Director.

  • • 2016-08-26 Open letter by 17 IITK Faculty members to Director, additional comments by Prof. Chatterjee.

• 2016-08-24 Open letter to IAC by a few concerned Alumni.

• • 2016-08-25 IAC acknowledgement

• 2016-08-21 Office order forming external review committee.

  • • 2016-08-24 Follow up on external review committee.

• 2016-08-23 Summary of events as shared by Prof. Kripa Shankar.

• 2016-08-22 RTI on Health Center.

• • 2016-09-23 RTI Response

• 2016-08-10 Open letter to director by Ashok Gupta, Ex President, IITKAA.

• 2016-08-10 Emergency IAC discussion.

• 2016-08-09 Office order forming fact finding committee.

• • 2016-08-17 Fact Finding committee report.

Problems with Health Center have been recorded earlier as well. There has been another death, in very similar circumstances, a few months back. In light of this incidence, the corresponding fact finding reports were made public as well:

• 2015-11-13 Fact finding report on death of Sri Aftab Alam.

  • 2016 Action Taken Report.