‘My eldest… troubled by how she died’: Telangana man mourns ‘highly motivated’ daughter who died in Delhi IAS coaching centre

“I have no words to express how I feel. She was my eldest, she had big dreams and was highly motivated. We are troubled thinking about the way she died. We are devastated… Don’t know what to do,” Vijay Kumar told The Indian Express via phone from Delhi. He works with the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) and resides at Mancherial.

An SCCL official said that after getting to know about the incident, the family deboarded the train at Nagpur and flew to New Delhi. Kumar is a deputy general manager at the SCCL’s Srirampur area.

Tanya, Shreya Yadav from UP, and Nivin Dalwin from Kerala died Saturday after they were trapped in the basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Central Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar, which got flooded when a drain burst during heavy rain.

Vijay Kumar said Tanya used to call home every day. “She graduated from Delhi University and had decided to pursue UPSC. She was preparing well, used to call us daily and talk about her studies,” he said.

Union Minister G Kishan Reddy, the MP from Secunderabad, spoke with Kumar Sunday morning, expressing condolences and offering help with completing the formalities of bringing his daughter’s body back home.