UPSC aspirants death: MCD report blames everyone but MCD

New Delhi: In its probe report on the death of three students at Raus IAS circle coaching centre in Rajendra Nagar, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) appeared to deflect all blame away from itself and held liable a wide combination of factors including the disruption of drainage system through extension and ramps, the saucer-shaped topography of the area that funnelled water towards the coaching centre, and a completely exposed parking that caused the inundation of the basement.o)..

The report, which stayed silent on how those violations were allowed to happen in the first place, added that Raus institute was issued a show cause notice last year on August 4 in the wake of a fire accident in a Mukherjee Nagar coaching institute..

This coaching institute has completely blocked the drainage system and also has not taken additional safeguard to meet such type of eventualities and the parking access to the institute is directly exposed to the road and in case of heavy rain, water, instead going into the stormwater drain enters directly to this parking area, the report added, while stating that similarly placed properties have constructed a barrier wall which ensures that in case of heavy waterlogging, water does not enter the parking area..

The reply of the show cause notice on August 8 by Abhishek Gupta (the CEO-owner of the centre, whos since been arrested) said that the building was being used as a coaching institute and desired to forward his case to the Delhi Fire Service for issuing a no-objection certificate (NOC)..

A K Jain, former commissioner (planning) with Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and worked on the Master Plan for Delhi-2021 said that MPD 2021 had permitted coaching centres but with certain terms and conditions regarding fire safety, width of the road, periodic checking..

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