Students hold protest against coaching centres

New Delhi, Aug 3: A candle march will be organised by UPSC aspirants in solidarity with the three students who died from flooding in the basement of a popular coaching centre here. The protest enters its seventh day on Saturday.

The students will lead the march in front of the coaching centre where the deaths happened (RAU’s IAS) in the national capital’s Old Rajinder Nagar.

The protests began on July 27, following the tragic deaths of three UPSC aspirants who were trapped in the basement of a coaching institute after heavy rainfall led to waterlogging and flooding of the basement.

The basement was used illegally as a library, had trapped 17 other students for several hours, exposing significant safety violations. The space is officially designated only for parking and storage.