Rajinder Nagar incident: AAP ministers hold meeting with UPSC aspirants
Jul 31, 2024
New Delhi [India] [July], 31 : Amid protests, Delhi Ministers Atishi, Gopal Rai, Mayor Shelly Oberoi, and AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak today held a meeting with UPSC aspirants following the Old Rajinder Nagar coaching centre incident.
Three students died after the basement of a building housing a coaching centre in Delhi's Old Rajendra Nagar was flooded following rains on Saturday evening.
After the meeting, Atishi told ANI, "We had a meeting in which many students from major coaching hubs from different parts of Delhi, including Rajinder Nagar, Mukherjee Nagar, and Nehru Vihar, were present. All the senior officers of our Delhi government, including the education department, MCD officers, law department, and fire department, were present there."
"We listened to the concerns of the students and took feedback from them that if we bring a regulation, what should be the aspects of it? The students raised many issues. The issue of infrastructure for coaching institutes came up, and the issue of fees for coaching institutes came up," she added.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader said that students raised several issues during the meeting and complained about the lack of a place to study.
"Students have raised the issue that the libraries that were running illegally in basements have been sealed, but now they do not have any place to study...We have promised the students that some solution will be found to their short-term as well as long-term problems," the AAP leader added.
The Delhi Minister also said that they also talked about a law for regulating coaching institutes.
"Many of these students also asked us to come to the protest site. We would definitely like to talk to those students. We have talked about a law for the regulation of coaching institutes. The process of drafting the law will start now, but in the process of drafting this law, these UPSC aspirants and students will also be included," she added.
Saurabh Bhardwaj, who also took part in the meeting, told ANI, "The students expressed their views there. The Delhi government has said that a law will be brought in this regard so that coaching institutes can be regulated like schools. The government will bring a law in this regard."
