A tragic incident took place on the evening of 27th July at RAU’S IAS Coaching Centre located in Old Rajendra Nagar, Delhi, in which two girl students and one boy student lost their lives. Rain water was collected on the road outside, which filled the library in the basement of the coaching centre. Out of the 30 students present in the library at the time of the incident, 27 managed to get out, while three got stuck. Many videos are viral on the internet, by watching which one can understand how this incident happened due to water filling in the basement.
It can be seen in the viral video that after the rain, there is a large amount of waterlogging outside the RAU’S IAS coaching center. It looks like a flood. The entry gate of the coaching center is visible in the video. This iron gate was used to prevent the water accumulated on the road from entering the basement. As per the rules, the basement library should have been closed immediately after the rain and the students should have been evacuated, but this was not done.
In another viral video, an SUV is seen passing outside a coaching centre. Due to the passing of the SUV, the water accumulated on the road swelled and a wave was formed, which put a lot of pressure on the gate of the coaching centre. This broke the gate and the water accumulated outside started entering the coaching centre rapidly. It can also be seen and heard in the video that when the water accumulated on the road swells due to the passing of the SUV, people are making noise.
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A video of RAU’S IAS coaching centre has also surfaced, in which water can be seen filling up rapidly in the basement. Many students are seen coming out of the basement and are drenched. An FIR has been registered in this case on charges of negligence leading to the death of three students. Some students said that even a week ago when it rained, the road outside the coaching centre was filled with water up to the waist. Despite this, the safety of the students was not taken care of.
Coaching owner and coordinator arrested
These tragic incidents highlight the grave situation of inadequate infrastructure and collapsed sewage system in the national capital. Delhi Police has arrested the owner and coordinator of RAU’S IAS coaching centre in connection with the July 27 incident in Old Rajendra Nagar. The students who lost their lives due to flooding in the library in the basement of the coaching centre have been identified as 25-year-old Shreya Yadav from Uttar Pradesh; 25-year-old Tanya Soni from Telangana and 28-year-old Navin Dalvin from Kerala. Most of the coaching institutes preparing for civil services in Delhi charge Rs 2 lakh or more for a year from the students, but do only lip service in the name of safety.
Waterlogging-related deaths in Delhi this year
On July 22, a UPSC aspirant was crossing a waterlogged road and to avoid falling, he grabbed a nearby iron gate. The gate was in contact with open electric wires, due to which he died of electric shock. On June 29, two boys died due to alleged drowning near the rainwater-filled Sirsapur underpass in Samaypur Badli in northwest Delhi. On June 28, when the first monsoon rain occurred in Delhi, a flood-like situation arose in the entire city. A 60-year-old man died due to drowning in a waterlogged underpass in Okhla Industrial Area. On the same day, a 20-year-old boy drowned in the rainwater accumulated in an underpass in Shalimar Bagh in northwest Delhi.
Incidents have happened in coaching centres earlier also
A fire broke out in a UPSC coaching centre in Mukherjee Nagar, North West Delhi on June 15, 2023, in which 61 students were injured. Many students came down from the building using ropes and wires, some jumped from the top to save their lives. There was no emergency exit system in this coaching centre, nor was there any arrangement for fire safety in the building. Two roofs of a coaching centre collapsed in Bhajanpura, Northeast Delhi on January 25, 2020. In this accident, 5 people including four students died and 13 others were injured. The coaching centre was being run in a dilapidated building, due to which this fatal accident happened.