Priyanka Saurabh
The owner of the coaching center which was preparing students in the basement did not know that there could be a problem with water logging in the basement. Youngsters were studying in the basement of a coaching center when the sudden influx of water turned into death. Many people ran away to save their lives, but three youngsters were killed in this accident. A few days ago, a youngster died due to an electric shock during rain in an area of Delhi. Both these incidents drew attention to the conditions in which students who have come to the capital Delhi from different parts of the country are living. All the coaching centres not only in Delhi but across the country are just empty promises. How innocent you become clear from the fact that you do not have any permit to run a coaching center in the basement, yet you are running a coaching center in the basement. The norms are not clear, and you do not have an NOC, this does not mean that you make your own rules. Ethics says that when there is ambiguity between personal ethics and administrative ethics, a responsible person should make a decision keeping administrative ethics in mind.
Where has this knowledge gone now? In the coaching center where the incident took place, only 30 students were sitting in the basement. In other coaching centers, 2000-2500 students sit in the basement. What would have happened if the same incident had taken place there? This is the Stone Age of man and humanity. The age of transactions of governments, politicians, officers, and businessmen. Like a mill, the wheels of their brutality and selfishness are spinning in which the common people and the youth of the country are getting crushed. In this entire episode, a car driver was held guilty. The government says that the road was filled with water, a car passed by and because of this the water moved and went into the basement. Neither the government is guilty nor the coaching center owner, but the car driver is guilty as to why he was driving the car on the road. This is our law and order and this is our justice system. This incident has exposed the monarchy, bureaucracy, media, and judiciary of India together. Here, the value of the life of a common man, a common youth is zero. Everyone is sleeping and like Andher Nagari Chaupat Raja, whenever such an incident happens, someone from the public is caught and punished. It is a good thing that the parents of the children were not sent to jail for sending their children to study. Had they not sent them to study, there would have been no death.
If an illegal building is constructed, then a bulldozer is used. Will a bulldozer be used on a coaching center as well? Why is coaching required across the country? Why can’t we build proper hostels for these talented children? After all, how much will it cost or how many resources will be required for this? These children are the future shapers of our country but they will come in our priority only when they reach a higher position. The irony is that this same system surrounds these children in its insensitivity after they reach higher positions where they quickly forget their struggles. More than half of the IAS officers managing the administration must have lived the life of these children 10-15 years ago, but still, they are either not able to do anything for these children or they are not interested in it, their past is also not able to decide their priority. After all, what is the need for killer coaching? Coaching will be a private matter for a person. It does not seem to be of the government. So if any incident happens due to the negligence of anyone anywhere in such a big country, how did the system become guilty? The system will investigate this incident. And whoever is guilty should take the strictest action.
The government and the coaching institutes only want money and nothing else, they have nothing to do with whether someone lives or dies. Many other coaching centers are also running deadly libraries in the basement. If such coaching centers are running illegally, then action should be taken against them and action should also be taken against the officer. At such a time, we should not make allegations and counter-allegations but take action. The government should bring a law to regulate coaching institutes and suggestions should also be taken from the students studying in coaching institutes. The regulator should also keep an eye on the fees of coaching institutes. There was a time when even the most genius students did not get more than 90% marks, today even a person with average intelligence got 99% marks, all this is the game of coaching centers and private schools, they are in collusion with paper leakers, examination centers and result makers.
