New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI) Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Sunday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over educational infrastructure in the country on Sunday, the day a five-storey hostel building collapsed in south Delhi’s Satya Niketan area, leaving three dead.
Dipke on X said Modi visited Delhi University a day before and delivered a political speech and invoked the term “dimagi naxal”, but spoke little about the state of the country’s educational infrastructure.
“Today, a hostel building in South Campus has collapsed, with students feared trapped under the debris. The number of casualties is still unknown,” he said.
Rescue operations were underway at the collapsed building, identified as Hostel Daze, with nine people pulled out of the rubble. Locals said some of those trapped were making phone calls for help.
How long must students be made to pay the price for failing infrastructure, Dipke asked “Adivasi students are dying in tribal belts due to a lack of care and support, and even students studying in the national capital are not safe,” he said, demanding safe classrooms, safe hostels and basic dignity for the students.
“Is that really too much to ask?” Dipke said, asking whether the prime minister would visit DU again and explain how the collapse happened.
According to the locals, the building had around 15 rooms, with two to three students sharing each room, and construction or repair work was underway in the basement.
A local claimed that the collection of water over days of rain in the basement had weakened the building’s foundation, leading to its eventual collapse.
Many of the hostelers are from Kerala, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and are enrolled at Motilal Nehru College, Atma Ram Sanatan Dharm College and Sri Venkateswara College across the road.
Residents raised concerns over the structural safety of other buildings in the locality, where several residential properties have been converted into student paying guest accommodations. PTI AO VN VN
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