Dreams nipped in the bud, say kin of dead IAS aspirants
Students have come from afar to utilise the better coaching facilities in the national capital, they say, but the pursuit of a dream career ended in a deadly tragedy in flooded basement of a building
Police personnel and students outside RAU’S IAS STUDY CIRCLE over the death of three civil services aspirants after the basement the coaching centre was flooded by rainwater at old Rajinder Nagar in New Delhi on July 28, 2024.
| Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap
Parents and relatives struggled to come to terms with the sudden loss after three civil services aspirants drowned in the basement of a coaching centre, which was flooded due to heavy rain in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar area, on Saturday evening.
Several students staged a protest on Sunday in front of the building housing Rau’s IAS Study Circle after the deaths of Shreya Yadav, 25, from Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni, 21, from Bihar, and Nevin Delvin, 28, from Kerala. “The students died of government negligence,” one angry protester said.
Fear gripped Dharmendra Yadav, a professor at an engineering college in Ghaziabad, who was watching the events unfold on TV on Saturday. When frantic calls to his niece Shreya went unanswered, he rushed to the Old Rajender Nagar area, with the search tragically ending at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital’s mortuary.
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Shreya had completed her B.Sc. in Agriculture at a college in Uttar Pradesh. Her father, a farmer, struggled to pay her fees and the extended family had pooled in money for her UPSC coaching, her uncle said.
“We sent her to Delhi and not Lucknow or Allahabad because of the environment, we thought the facilities here are better, she will be able to learn English. But look at what we have now? Everything we dreamed of is gone, who will take responsibility?” he asked.
Shreya’s elder brother is pursuing an MA degree in Journalism while her younger brother is in Class 8.
Navin Delvin was pursuing his Ph.D. in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and was also a UPSC aspirant. He was staying near his university and had gone to the library at the institute on Saturday evening, a relative said. His father is a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police based in Kerala and his mother is a Geography professor and head of the department (HoD) at a university.
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JNU Students’ Union expressed solidarity with his family members and the community bid adieu to him at a prayer meet in JNU on Sunday evening.
A student of Delhi University, Tanya Soni, who hailed from Bihar’s Aurangabad had joined the coaching centre one-and-a-half months ago. Her father works in Telangana. She had two siblings — a brother and sister. Her parents were inconsolable as doctors at RML handed over her body. Her last rites will be held in Bihar.
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