Ambedkar Nagar: Family members of Shreya, one of the three civil services aspirants who died after the basement of a coaching centre was flooded by rainwater in Delhi, mourn at her residence in Hasimpur Barsawan village, in Ambedkar Nagar district, Sunday, July 28, 2024.
Lucknow: ''She was the brightest among all our children.....we wanted her to become an IAS officer.....everything is finished now,'' a wailing Rajendra Yadav, the father of Shreya Yadav, who was among the three students, who lost their lives after they were trapped inside the basement of a coaching centre in Delhi on Saturday evening, said when he received the news of her daughter's death.
Shreya, the second eldest among the three children of the family, was a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar district, and had shifted to Delhi in April.
Rajendra Yadav, who ran a dairy shop at Baskhari in the district, had taken a loan to pay for the fee of the coaching centre. Rajendra left for the national capital after receiving the tragic information.
Shreya had completed her graduation with agriculture from Kamala Nehru Institute of Technology in the neighbouring Sultanpur district. ''She always wanted to be an IAS officer and so we sent her to Delhi,'' said another member of the family.
The family members and the relatives, who had gathered at her ancestral home at Hashimpur Barsawan village, squarely blamed the coaching institute management for the tragedy. ''How can a library be set up in the basement....a thorough probe should be conducted into the incident,'' said a member of the family.
Shreya's brother, who also lived in Delhi and studied mass communication, said that he came to know about the tragedy through the media. He also questioned the role of the local body authorities who allowed a library to be set up in the basement.
Shreya's uncle, who was associated with a political party and lived in Noida, said that he identified her body through her documents at the mortuary of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi.
Two other students, Taniya Soni and Naveen Dalvin, had also lost their lives in the incident.