UPSC Coaching Centre Deaths: One PhD Student, 2 Graduates – And Dreams Cut Short
Nevin, Tanya, and Shreya may have belonged to different parts of India, but they shared one common goal.
By: VARSHA SRIRAM
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A Kerala-born PhD research student from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a Delhi University graduate, and the first girl from her village in Uttar Pradesh to prepare for Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exams.
Twenty-nine-year-old Nevin Dalvin, Tanya Soni (21), and Shreya Yadav (25) may have belonged to different parts of India, but they shared one common goal – to become IAS officers and serve the country.
Yet, the three civil service aspirants met with a similar fate in the basement of Rau's IAS Study Circle in New Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar on Saturday, 27 July as they allegedly drowned in the underground library due to floodwaters caused by heavy rains.
Never in our lives did we imagine that such a day would come. We have no words to express... Our family is shattered by the news."
Dharmendra Yadav, Shreya Yadav's uncle
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