A committee has been constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday to into the deaths of 3 civil services aspirants who drowned in the basement of a coaching centre in New Delhi’s old Rajinder Nagar after it got flooded due to heavy rain.
What will this committee do?
As per the ministry, the committee will inquire the reasons, fix responsibility, suggest measures and recommend policy changes.
The committee has been asked to submit its report within 30 days.
Who are committee members?
As per the Spokesperson of the MHA, the committee will have Additional Secretary, MoUHA, Principal Secretary (Home), Delhi Govt, Special CP, Delhi Police, Fire Advisor and JS, MHA as Convener.
On July 27, three students allegedly died and several were trapped, after a nearby drain burst which led to flooding in the basement of UPSC coaching institute – Rau’s IAS Study Circle – in Old Rajinder Nagar. There were about 30 students at the centre.
Videos of the area that have now gone viral showed Rau’s IAS Study Circle in old Rajinder Nagar completely flooded, with rescuers struggling to pump out the water.
Earlier on Monday, the leaders and workers of Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a protest near the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) office demanding the resignation of the Arvind Kejriwal government over the death of three civil services aspirants after their institute’s basement got flooded with rainwater.
Who were 3 civil services aspirants who died in Rau’s coaching centre in Delhi?
On Saturday, a drain close to Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Rajinder Nagar bursted and the basement, where the coaching centre is situated, was quickly filled with 10-12 feet water. Seeing the water flooding the coaching centre, students hurriedly started escaping. But Tania Soni (25), Shreya Yadav (25), and Nevin Dalwin (28) drowned and died.
Shreya was from Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar, while Tanya was from Telangana and Navin was from Ernakulam in Kerala.
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Reports cited a faculty member of the coaching centre saying that when the flooding began, a call was made to 112, but traffic jams delayed the arrival of rescuers.
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3 students die in Delhi Rau’s IAS coaching centre: MHA forms probe panel, seeks report in 30 days
