Delhi Coaching Flooding: Home Ministry Forms Panel To Probe Deaths, Victims' Families To Get Rs 10 Lakh

The committee will inquire into the reasons, fix responsibility, suggest measures and recommend policy changes, the MHA said in a statement on X on Monday. It will submit the report in 30 days. 

The MHA has constituted a committee to probe the Delhi coaching flooding.

Source : PTI

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted a committee to inquire the flooding in the basement of a coaching centre in New Delhi that led to the death of three students.

The committee will inquire into the reasons, fix responsibility, suggest measures and recommend policy changes, the MHA said in a statement on X on Monday. It will submit the report in 30 days. 

The committee will be composed of the Additional Secretary, Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs of India, Principal Secretary (Home) of the Delhi government, Special CP of Delhi Police, Fire Advisor and Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs as Convener.

MHA has constituted a committee to inquire into the unfortunate incident at a coaching centre in old Rajinder Nagar in New Delhi. The committee will inquire into the reasons, fix responsibility, suggest measures and recommend policy changes. (1/2)@HMOIndia @PIB_India

— Spokesperson, Ministry of Home Affairs (@PIBHomeAffairs) July 29, 2024

Three IAS aspirants -- Shreya Yadav from Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni from Telangana, and Navin Dalwin from Kerala -- died after the basement of a building housing Rau's IAS Study Circle coaching institute was flooded following rain on Saturday evening. 

Meanwhile, the office of the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi said that the families of the deceased will be given financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh per family. Delhi LG VK Saxena assured action against responsible officials of Delhi Fire Services (DFS), police, and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) within 24 hours.

Earlier today, five accused arrested on Monday in connection with the deaths have been sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a court. The five accused -- Tejinder Singh, Parvinder Singh, Harvinder Singh and Sarabjeet Singh, the four co-owners of the basement of the coaching centre at Rajinder Nagar, and the driver of a car, Manuj Kathuria -- were produced in the court. 

 

The matter also resonated in the Parliament today as Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar dubbing the culture of coaching centres as a gas chamber and Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar blaming the AAP government's carelessness for the tragedy. 

 

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said responsibility must be fixed so that such incidents do not recur and there should be no politics over it.