Delhi Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena came down heavily on the Delhi government and charged criminal neglect and failure of basic maintenance by concerned agencies led to the death of three civil services aspirants. The governor has directed the divisional commissioner to submit an enquiry report by Thursday.
Condoling the death of the students, Saxena tweeted that he was deeply anguished by the incident and it was “unfortunate and unacceptable” that such an incident happened in the national capital. The LG also condoled the recent deaths of seven persons due to electrocution.
“I have been keeping a close watch over the situation and followed the rescue operations by Delhi Police and Delhi Fire personnel, etc, personally. These incidents clearly point towards criminal neglect and failure of basic maintenance and administration by concerned agencies and departments,” he tweeted.
Saxena charged the entire machinery responsible for maintenance of drainage and related infrastructure in the national capital have collapsed and it is indicative of misgovernance in Delhi. “Drainage in the city and related infrastructure, as also required efforts and endeavours to address these have apparently collapsed.” Coming down heavily on the Aam Aadmi Party government in the national capital, Saxena charged, ”It is indicative of the larger malaise of misgovernance that Delhi has been subjected to during the last decade or so.”
The LG said the role of coaching institutions in ensuring the safety of students has to be looked into. “What has been happening is unpardonable and such issues can no more be glossed over. I have asked the Divisional Commissioner to submit a report, covering every aspect of the tragic incident by Tuesday,” Saxena said.
The governor said the guilty won’t be spared. “While nothing can bring back the precious young lives lost due to apathy of the administration and criminal misconduct of those running coaching institutions, responsibility of those who caused the loss of lives, will be fixed and guilty will be brought to book.”
Three students died after the basement of an IAS coaching centre in Delhi's Old Rajindra Nagar got flooded on Saturday evening. The bodies of the students were retrieved from the site during the rescue operation. The bodies of two female students were retrieved from the site initially by the NDRF, local police and fire department. A third body was recovered later. Police said the deceased were from Kerala, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh.
The deceased were identified as Shreya Yadav, a native of Ambedkar Nagar district of UP, Tanya Soni, whose permanent address is in Telangana and Nivin Dalwin, a resident of Kerala's Ernakulam.
