Two of the three students who drowned in flooded water in the institute’s basement were the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Delhi University.Tanya Soni (21), a resident of Telangana who was originally from Bihar’s Aurangabad, was a DU student.Tanya, who took the admission in the coaching institute just one-and-a-half months ago, was presently staying at a girl’s hostel of Maharaja Agrasen College.A friend of Tanya, who did not wish to be named, said her father works in a mining company in Telangana.She was the eldest child of her parents.She had younger siblings, a brother and a sister.Meanwhile, families and friends of the victims demanded action against those involved in the tragic incident.At the RML Hospital mortuary, the friends and families of the three deceased were in a state of shock and were inconsolable.Dharmender Yadav, uncle of victim Shreya Yadav, said he learnt about the incident through news channels.”I tried to call her but her mobile phone was switched off. Even the coaching centre’s number was not reachable. I left Ghaziabad and reached the place where she stayed but her room was locked,” the uncle said.”Shreya had completed her BSc in agriculture and joined the coaching centre in May,” he said.Most well-known IAS coaching institutes in the national capital charge students between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 3 lakh a year.Besides, students have also to pay Rs 1.82 lakh to Rs 3.65 lakh as rent every year.After the Rajinder Nagar incident, students fear that they will now be charged more by the coaching institutes in the name of implementation of safety measures.Lakhs of students from several states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and southern parts of the country, come to Delhi to study in coaching institutes in Rajinder Nagar and Mukherjee Nagar.Students also alleged that these coaching institutes spend lakhs of rupees for full front page advertisements in major newspapers but have always ignored basic safety measures at their premises.Meanwhile, the Congress called for fixing accountability over the death of three IAS aspirants in Delhi, with Rahul Gandhi, in a post on X, asserting that common people are paying the price for “irresponsibility of institutions” at every level.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said it is very sad that three youths lost their lives after waterlogging in the basement of an IAS coaching centre in the capital due to the “criminal negligence of the government and administration”.Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, “The incident of the death of three students due to waterlogging in the basement of a coaching institute in Delhi is heartbreaking. I pray to God for the departed souls and the bereaved families.” On its part, the BJP demanded registration of cases against concerned officers for “criminal negligence” and resignation of Water Minister Atishi and local AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak for the death of three civil services aspirants.This is “murder” not any accident, said Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva and demanded Rs 3 crore compensation for the families of the three students.
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