mumbai the overall framework for the lighter iitb academic plan is ready and the details for the second year would be out soon we realised it was time to change when we saw students were less motivated to pursue courses in the branches allotted based on their entrance exam ranks said a faculty member so while we reduced the overall credit for the entire btech programme we now offer flexibility to students to pick programmes from other branches or departments the fallout was that students could pick courses they enjoyed more and we would see more excitement and motivation to study and hence less stress on the campusas the same batch moves up they will benefit from the new changes every year we want students to enjoy what they are studying and pick courses they feel will be of use later in life said a deanin a communication to students on saturday director subhasis chaudhuri said we are also working towards changes in our ug curriculum starting with the batch of 2022 to make it more relevant and motivating to students and to reduce some of the stressspeaking about the death of darshan solanki he added we have been taking multiple steps over the years to support and protect the mental health of our studentsmeanwhile the institute has started an internal investigation into solankis death the panel is headed by professor nand kishore and includes scst student cell members on sunday students will participate in a candle march rally at the iitb campus over solankis death bhalchandra mungekar former mumbai university vc and former member of the planning commission visited the institute and met the director he also visited the powai police station