Coaching centres as death traps: Why are IAS dreams being sold at the cost of safety?
The tragic deaths of Tania Soni, Shreya Yadav and Navin Delvin reveal a haunting truth: dreams are drowned in the negligence of India's unsafe coaching centres
The lifeless bodies of three civil services aspirants—Tania Soni, Shreya Yadav, and Navin Delvin—discovered in the basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar, lay bare the grim reality of dreams cruelly eclipsed by disaster. Their deaths, a stark reminder of human negligence, occurred when relentless rain on Saturday evening inundated the basement, turning a space of hopeful ambition into a chamber of tragedy.
In the wake of this calamity, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi belatedly took action, sealing 13 “illegal” coaching centres in the same area, including IAS Gurukul, Chahal Academy, Plutus Academy and others. The list reads like a graveyard of dreams—each name a testament to a system that failed these students and many more.