Month before Delhi coaching centre deaths, UPSC aspirant warned MCD of risk to students’ lives
Five more persons were arrested in connection with the incident at Rau’s IAS Study Circle, where three persons drowned in a flooded basement on Saturday.
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A Union Public Service Commission aspirant had on June 26 warned the Municipal Corporation of Delhi about the risk to students’ lives at a private coaching centre in the capital’s Old Rajinder Nagar, reported The Indian Express on Monday.
Three students who were enrolled at Rau’s IAS Study Circle drowned on Saturday when the coaching centre, located in a basement, flooded after a nearby drainage pipeline burst. They were preparing to appear for the Indian Administrative Services examination.
Kishor Singh Kushwah, the complainant, had flagged the allegedly illegal use of the basement by Rau’s IAS Study Circle to the municipal corporation. He claimed that the centre did not have the necessary permissions to use the facility to run a commercial enterprise, reported The Indian Express.
“Despite not having permission, they [Rau’s] are running a classroom without NOC [no objection certificate] in the basement; they are running test classes, which are affecting the lives of students and staff,” Kushwah had told the civic body, according to The Indian Express.
He added: “There is a possibility of a major accident…big UPSC [Union Public Service Commission] coaching institutes are running classes at illegal places by putting the lives of the students at risk.”
Kushwah checked the status of his complaint on July 15 and July 22, but said that...
