4 Coaching Institutes Offer Rs 10 lakh Compensation to Kin of 3 Dead IAS Aspirants, Students Term It a Gimmick

New Delhi: Four UPSC coaching institutes — Vajiram and Ravi Institute, Drishti IAS, NEXT IAS, SRIRAM’s IAS — have offered to pay compensation of Rs 10 lakh each to the families of the three civil services aspirants who died after rainwater gushed inside of the basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Old Rajinder Nagar on July 27.

Drishti IAS and SRIRAM’s IAS have also offered a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to Nilesh Rai, another IAS aspirant, who died of electrocution in Patel Nagar of Delhi on July 22.

But the UPSC aspirants who are continuing protest demonstrations over the deaths of the three students, termed the compensation declaration by the coaching institutes a gimmick and a plan to dilute the issue.

The MCD has sealed up the basements of several coaching centres in Delhi following the student deaths.

In a message on X, Vajiram and Ravi said it is “volunteering to admit free of cost, students, who are currently enrolled with Rau’s IAS Study Circle” preparing for the Main Exam 2024 and Prelims-cum-Mains Exam 2025.