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IIT Kharagpur to Hold Monthly Stakeholder Meetings for Student Development
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News18•21-09-2026, 20:45
IIT Kharagpur to Hold Monthly Stakeholder Meetings for Student Development
- •IIT Kharagpur will organize monthly stakeholder meetings starting in October for the holistic development of students and researchers.
- •The initiative, led by Director Prof Suman Chakraborty, aims to address outstanding issues and disagreements through open discussions.
- •Beyond town hall meetings, there will be direct interactions with boarders to discuss problems related to lodging, food, and dietary needs in hostels.
- •Prof Sanjay Gupta has been appointed as the Dean of Career Development to assist students with career planning.
- •This move follows a series of unnatural deaths on campus and complements the existing SETU (Support, Empathy, Transformation & Upliftment) student counseling center.
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IIT Kharagpur will organize monthly town hall meetings starting in October to facilitate open discussions among stakeholders for the all-round holistic development of students and researchers, according to institute Director Prof Suman Chakraborty.
The new initiatives come in the wake of a spate of unnatural deaths on the IIT Kharagpur campus in recent times.
The SETU (Support, Empathy, Transformation & Upliftment) team, which is the institute's dedicated student counselling and mental well-being centre, has been actively functioning.
