Delhi coaching centre flooding: MCD terminates junior engineer, suspends assistant engineer
The Hindu
Officials in Karol Bagh Zone face consequences; 3 IAS aspirants die in flooded basement, leading to termination and suspension.
A junior engineer has been terminated and an assistant engineer suspended in connection with the death of three IAS aspirants due to flooding of a basement in the building of a coaching centre, MCD Commissioner Ashwani Kumar said on July 29.
The action has been taken against the officials of the maintenance department for the Karol Bagh Zone.
The termination and suspension orders will be released soon, sources said.
Three civil services aspirants, two females and a male, were killed after the basement of Rau's IAS Study Circle in Central Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar area was flooded following heavy rains on Saturday.
Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has sought a report from the State government on a complaint that the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) had taken up works amounting to ₹387 crore in violation of rules in Varuna and Srirangapatna Assembly constituencies, allegedly on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s oral instructions.
“We are organising a health research convention, which comprises a couple of workshops, community-based learning, and also cardiac care. We also included a one-day seminar on medical education, how medical education has evolved in India and the U.K., and what we can learn from each other” said Dr. Piruthivi Sukumar Dean of the International Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Leeds during his interaction with The Hindu.