A civil providers aspirant from Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior has claimed he lodged a grievance in regards to the alleged unlawful use of the basement at Rau’s IAS Examine Circle in New Delhi a month earlier than a tragic incident wherein three college students drowned. Kishore Singh Kushwaha acknowledged that had the Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD) acted promptly on his grievance, the scholars’ lives may have been saved. Three civil providers aspirants, together with two girls, drowned on Saturday night time within the basement of Rau’s IAS Examine Circle within the Previous Rajinder Nagar space when it received flooded resulting from heavy rains.
Kushwaha, who’s making ready for the UPSC examinations in Gwalior, reported to the media that he had uploaded his grievance on the central authorities’s Public Grievances (PG) portal on 26 June, information company PTI reported. He highlighted that lessons and libraries had been being operated from the basements of Rau’s IAS Examine Circle and different institutes within the nationwide capital.
Kushwaha additional claimed that he had despatched two reminders on 15 July and 22 July, however no motion was taken by the involved officers on the MCD, the place the grievance was forwarded.
“I had despatched a grievance towards the unlawful use of the basement on the IAS teaching centre on the central authorities’s PG portal practically a month earlier than the tragic incident, however MCD didn’t pay heed to it. I despatched reminders on July 15 in addition to on July 22, however no motion was taken,” Kushwaha mentioned.
“Basements are just for storage functions, however lessons are held there and they’re additionally used as libraries with out permission from authorities,” he added. as quoted by PTI.
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IAS Aspirant Claims Unlawful Use Of Basements Extends To Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar And Different Schooling Hubs
Kushwaha additionally identified that the problem is just not confined to Delhi’s Previous Rajinder Nagar space however extends to Mukherjee Nagar and different training hubs like Gwalior, Kota, Patna, Indore, and Jaipur. He alleged that teaching centres run libraries of their basements, placing college students’ lives in danger.
“These buildings are in a dilapidated state and so they have permission to make use of their basements just for storage. However to save cash and by bribing native civic physique officers, their homeowners acquire permissions to run lessons there,” he alleged, as per PTI.
Kushwaha urged the central authorities and the native administration to take cognisance of even the smallest complaints and act on them promptly.