Delhi ministers meet UPSC aspirants to address concerns over coaching center conditions

NEW DELHI: Days after the tragic coaching centre flooding incident at the Old Rajinder Nagar area that claimed the lives of three students, Delhi ministers and mayor met the UPSC aspirants of the city to discuss their concerns.
Delhi education minister Atishi, urban development minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, development minister Gopal Rai, and Mayor Shelly Oberoi met the civil service aspirants at the Delhi Secretariat to address their grievances.
"We met representatives from various coaching hubs like Old Rajinder Nagar, Nehru Vihar. Students put forth their concerns and feedback regarding high fees, lack of infrastructure at coaching centres. They also shared concerns about how exploitation is happening in the form of high rent and high brokerage charges," Atishi told new agency PTI.
The minister also said that the students discussed the problems around lack of facilities, quality of food. She stated that these grievances will be considered in the regulations being developed by the government.
Earlier in the day, Atishi had announced that the Delhi government would introduce a law to regulate coaching centres in the national capital.
"We have assured the UPSC aspirants that their grievances will be included. Students are key stakeholders and they will be part of the committee formed to frame the guidelines," she said.
Atishi said they will also go and meet the protesting students and address their issues.
Urban development minister Saurabh Bhardwaj said, "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."
Three students, Shreya Yadav, Tanya Soni, and Nevin Dalvin, lost their lives when water from a flooded drain gushed into the basement library of Rau's IAS Study Circle in Old Rajinder Nagar.