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Following recent building collapses in areas such as Satya Niketan near Delhi University, students, student representatives, and youth leaders examine the housing crisis and living conditions in private paying guest (PG) accommodations across Delhi. With over seven lakh students arriving at Delhi University and approximately seven thousand hostel seats available, the severe shortage forces scholars into unregulated, cramped private facilities lacking fire safety compliance and basic amenities. Representatives including students from Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College and Shri Ram College of Commerce, alongside members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), National Students' Union of India (NSUI), Youth Congress, and Youthocracy, debate administrative negligence, high rents, and building bylaw enforcement. The panel calls on civic authorities, the Delhi Development Authority, and the Ministry of Urban Affairs to mandate third-party structural safety audits, establish regulatory inspection cells, and ensure institutional accountability.
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00:00Sadly, viewers, on the lives that we have lost today of these young students stands the epitaph of the death
00:07of Delhi University.
00:08We gave you the names of the students who have perished in this tragedy, and the names will never quite
00:14be remembered, will they?
00:15And that is, like I said, the biggest tragedy in all of this.
00:20But will things change? Some would suggest not.
00:24So what happens now from here on?
00:26Let's cut across to our panelists this evening.
00:29Joining me, Mohamed Adhan Aswi, BA Political Science, first year Atmaram Sanatandharam College.
00:36His PG was just 50 meters away from that building that collapsed.
00:41I also have with me Anaswara Ramesh, second year BA Owners, Economic Students, SRCC, who lived in a postgraduate in
00:48the first year now, has changed to a flat.
00:51Arian Maan, ABVP, Doosu President, Gurmehar Kaur, Youth Congress Leader, Vijay Reddy Malangi, spokesperson CJP, Nemesha Das, founder of Youthocracy.
01:03I want to cut across to the two students who, one of them was living in a PG and then
01:10moved to a flat,
01:12and the other whose house or his PG was just 50 meters away from this ill-fated building.
01:19Mohamed, if you can hear me, can you take us through on what you witnessed, what happened?
01:27Right. So before this event happened, I went for a haircut and one hour ago.
01:32So when I came back to my PG, I saw that I heard a lot, loud noise.
01:39And when I went there, I saw that a four-story building had collapsed.
01:43And after one hour or 1.5 hour, I was still there, but no police was there, no forces was
01:50there.
01:51So it was just the local students, the friends of the people who were under the rubble.
01:56They were the ones helping out, and NSCY was one prominent student union that was present there.
02:04All right. So, Mohamed, when did the authorities finally come in?
02:09And right now, because, you know, that's one building.
02:12There are multiple buildings exactly functioning the same way, possibly the one that you live in as well.
02:19Definitely. If I had the opportunity to show you my room right now, I'm paying $15,000 or something.
02:25Can you show me your room?
02:28Absolutely, ma'am. So this is the kind of small room I'm living in.
02:32Can we go full screen? Give me a second. Can we go full screen on that? Show me your room.
02:35Yeah.
02:36Show me your room, Mohamed.
02:38Is it visible?
02:39Yes, we can see. Go ahead.
02:41Yes. I'm sharing this room with my partner.
02:44And we're living in this room, which is very small.
02:47And if we see there's only one bathroom without any food, and the conditions that are here are inhumane, rats
02:54are here everywhere, electricity is there, when we see that meters are there, and then we're expected to live in
03:01conditions like this.
03:02Yes. So, Mohamed, can you once again show me your room and tell me how much you and your roommate
03:09pay for this room?
03:12Absolutely, ma'am. So, this is the kind of room. This is one bed. This is the second bed. And
03:17these are the four walls that are here.
03:19I'm paying $15,000 for a cupboard and a bed. And the PG owner takes $30,000 out of this
03:27room, $15,000 from me and $15,000 from my roommate.
03:31So, this is the kind of condition that we're expected to live in. I am in an ARSD college, which
03:37is the national ranking seventh college.
03:39And I got in through that through merit. And when I came here, there were no hospital facilities.
03:44And if I had chosen some other area, such as Moti Bagh, that would be far away. Then I have
03:49to pay more for commute.
03:51So, this is the kind of conditions that we were expected to live in. If we would not have chosen
03:56Satya Niketan, then we would have faced more trouble.
03:59So, I think we have no other option than choosing this area to live in and risking our lives.
04:03I personally feel unsafe in living in areas like this.
04:08And you have no option. This room barely fits two small beds, Mohammed, that you're standing in right now.
04:15Does it have a fire safety outlet? Is there any norms being followed? Nothing.
04:24Ma'am, this was a big hall, which was converted into three rooms by the owner of this PG.
04:31And before one year, this was not even registered as a PG. So, this is the kind of condition we
04:36live in.
04:37And there is no fire safety. There is nothing here.
04:40So, if, God forbid, some emergency does happen, we would have to risk our lives.
04:46We have no other option. And if we would live somewhere else, you would have to pay more.
04:51And this is the public university infrastructure. Just two kilometers from here, there is another public university, JNU, who is
04:58giving hostels at Rs. 220 per month.
05:01And we are expected to live in these conditions after paying 15,000.
05:06Just one year ago, a student died in Satya Niketan from jaundice.
05:10This is the kind of conditions that Satya Niketan is in.
05:16Mohamed, you stay on with me. And I am sorry that you have to live in these conditions.
05:19Where are you from, Mohamed?
05:21I'm from Jaipur, ma'am.
05:23You've come all the way from Jaipur to study in a college in the national capital.
05:26And you're paying 15,000 without, only for the room. That's it. Nothing else.
05:32That's what you're paying. So, the PG owner gets Rs. 30,000 from that one tiny cubicle that you are
05:37in.
05:38It looks barely 15 by 15 feet.
05:40I want to, you know, just stay with me.
05:41I want to, you know, go across to Anaswara Ramesh.
05:45Anaswara, you're someone who used to live in a PG, but then decided to move out to a flat.
05:50Why did you make that decision?
05:54I mean, it was not the best decision I could have taken.
05:57If I have to be, if I, if my facts have to be very clear, I was staying in a
06:0130K PG in Kamala Nagar.
06:04I'm a student at Sriram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, in the northern side.
06:08So, I was paying my parents, they were, the only sole reason they were ready to pay such a hefty
06:13amount.
06:14Mind you, my college fees is just 30K.
06:16At the same time, I have to pay 11 times if my, for the entire year, just for my accommodation,
06:22which, according to me, should be of a secondary priority, because I came here from Kerala to take care of
06:28my primary purpose,
06:30which was to gain education from the national capital, as clearly mentioned.
06:32So, the entire situation that led me, that primarily led me to change my accommodation was,
06:40first, I personally had so much amount of, you know, trauma in terms of this much amount of money of
06:48my parents are being just basted on accommodation.
06:51I mean, this is not something I personally wanted to put a burden on my parents.
06:55That's a primary reason.
06:56Secondary, definitely, in fact, coming from Kerala, you know, I was absolutely, like, looking at the flamboyance of, you know,
07:04the PG businesses.
07:05I mean, most of them are with so much of influence, so much of money.
07:08And I'm not even sure about the sources, but I've heard from my seniors that the same PG that I
07:14was living,
07:14there were cases of, you know, some kind of infrastructural defaults that happened that led to some casualties.
07:21But with the money and influence these PG owners had, they were able to completely settle the case.
07:27So, my parents wanted to, like, ensure that such cases did not happen with me because, as everybody, like, we
07:35come here for an aspiration.
07:36We are still living here for an aspiration to succeed in our life, to, you know, whatever the hype about
07:44Delhi University is all about.
07:46So, to live through all these experiences is absolutely pathetic.
07:50But let me just reiterate the major defaults with, I mean, the accommodation I had and the major decision of
07:58me choosing a flat was definitely the cost.
08:02And second being the food, because even after paying so much, I mean, they kept on using, I mean, they
08:09kept on reusing the oils.
08:10Because we had so much of issues with, you know, the food, the quality of the food, the quality of
08:17ingredients they used to make.
08:19And, in fact, since there is very less number of, you know, students who are, who can actually afford these
08:26kind of PG's,
08:27we were all very scared to, like, point out.
08:29And if at all they point out, for the next few days they might sustain the, you know, quality assurance.
08:34But after that they completely used to be stored.
08:37So, yeah.
08:38So, Anaswara, what you're telling me is, I'm sorry, I know, you know, thank you for sharing your ordeal with
08:43me and our viewers.
08:44I want to again ask you, so you were paying 30,000 rupees a month for a PG, right?
08:50Yeah.
08:51And you chose to leave that because?
08:56First, our living conditions were not very much, like, according with the, accordance to the, you know.
09:03Money that you were paying.
09:03Money that we are, by, yeah, exactly.
09:06And how much are you paying now for a flat?
09:09I'm paying 9,250 per month.
09:12Which you're sharing with other girls?
09:14Yeah, exactly.
09:15I'm sharing with three other, three friends of mine.
09:18All right.
09:19So, okay.
09:20And you are at the SRCC College, right?
09:26All right.
09:27Okay, stay with me, Anaswara.
09:28Both Mohamed and Anaswara, I'm going to come right back to you.
09:31I have some young student leaders with us.
09:34Aryan Maan, ABVP, DUSU President.
09:36Gurmehar Kaur, Youth Congress Leader.
09:38Vijay Reddy from the CJP.
09:41And Naimisha, who's the founder of Youthocracy.
09:43I want to cut across first.
09:45Gurmehar, let me bring you in because you've been very, very vocal.
09:48Where Twitter is concerned, social media is concerned.
09:52This is really not a BJP problem, Gurmehar.
09:55This is something that has been festering on for very long.
09:57But on the outset for it, for someone who studied in Delhi University,
10:02what's your view?
10:03Is this the actual end of what was the proverbial DU dream?
10:07Because it's clearly fraying at the edges.
10:09Because if one looks at the figures, and I'm just going through them,
10:13and it's astounding.
10:14Seven lakh colleges in this capital.
10:15Seven lakh seats, I beg your pardon.
10:18One in Delhi, and just 7,000 seats available in hostels.
10:23One can just do that math.
10:24We'll put the graphics out on that.
10:29You know, the truth is, ma'am, it's not simply just the end of the DU dream.
10:35It's the end of the Indian dream.
10:36What is the Indian dream?
10:37The Indian dream is something very simple, that if you study very well, if you crack a UPSC,
10:41if you crack a NEED exam, if you crack a JE exam, then your future will be set.
10:45That you as a young child will be able to pull yourself out of your social situation,
10:50whatever that situation may be, whatever kind of oppression you may be born into.
10:54If you're, you could be born into a financial oppression, you could be born into gender oppression,
10:58you could be born into caste oppression, and it could be anything.
11:01But the dream is that if you study hard, if you crack these exams, if you get into a good
11:06college,
11:07you will succeed in life.
11:10That was the dream that I came to Delhi University with.
11:15So have all of these children who have come to Delhi University.
11:19You know, a lot of these kids who live in PG's do not come from a lot of money.
11:23There's a kid whose father is an electrician.
11:26For them to pay 15,000, 17,000 rupees a month is a whole amount of their savings.
11:32But they do it because they believe that this is the way that they can create happiness
11:38or create a happier future for their kids.
11:42And then what does the state then give back?
11:44You know, a PG building falls, it kills students, then a NEET exam is leaked.
11:51Your UPSC exams are compromised.
11:53In Punjab, there's cheating that happens.
11:55So your state is completely inadequate in giving the foundation, protecting the foundation of these dreams.
12:03So what has the government done here?
12:05They have not, they've not simply, you know, these are not simple issue, issue, issue.
12:09The next gen, the message that the next generation is getting is that, see, we could do whatever.
12:15We could study very hard.
12:16We could get a lot of, we could get a lot of marks.
12:20We could get, crack all of these exams and get into the rankings, yet our dreams will not be fulfilled.
12:28So why even bother?
12:30You know, why even bother?
12:31So the truth is, you have not only taken away the right to free speech or the right to education.
12:36You have taken the next generation's right to dream.
12:39Okay.
12:41Aryan, you're from the ABVP.
12:44Technically, the political party that you're associated with, some would say it's a three-tier government which is being run
12:51in the national capital,
12:53which the Congress also constantly pushes forth and says,
12:56where you have your party which you're affiliated with at the center, in the government in Delhi and the MCD.
13:05But the ABVP was and is protesting, which is good.
13:09But what are you protesting against and what are you looking at?
13:14Hello, everyone.
13:16Yesterday, I got call around just 15 minutes after the incident happened.
13:23Me and my team went to the location with all the ABVP members and everything.
13:30So we went there at the situation.
13:32With proper police coordination, we were helping all the big stones.
13:39To be kept out from the current location.
13:43Also, we demand the resignation of MCD commissioner.
13:48Because he has given the permission to the PG owners.
13:53He has given the permission to his, you know, the lower authorities to approve the PG license.
14:01I personally believe that government should create a reform, government should create a hostel or a PG cell.
14:11Like, on every, like after every 15 days, there should be a proper inspection.
14:17There should be a proper security protocol.
14:20There should be a proper fire audit.
14:21So such kinds of situation never happen in future.
14:25Because ABVP is, ABVP is first priority.
14:29Student safety is our first priority.
14:31So I personally believe that government should create a proper hostel and PG cell.
14:38So such kind of problem doesn't happen in future.
14:42Also, as a DUSU president, I have also locked down.
14:49Like, I have closed the hostel of Hansraj College because the building was very old.
14:55Now, I have demanded the principle to reconstruct it.
15:00And reconstruction has already started.
15:02Also, the Hindu college.
15:04There was no boys hostel in Hindu college.
15:07I personally demanded...
15:08Alright, so stay on with me.
15:08Arin, stay on with me.
15:09I'm going to bring in Rahul Singh Kajla, who was the spokesperson of the NSUI.
15:13Somebody who's been on ground as well.
15:15Rahul, I want to bring you in.
15:16Why get into the politics of, oh, ABVP is associated with the BJP.
15:21What are they protesting?
15:22It's a good thing.
15:23They're asking for exactly what you're asking for.
15:25What's wrong with that?
15:28Preeti, before that, let's name names here.
15:32Neeraj Kumar, Nitesh Chib, Asghar Ali, Krishna.
15:37These are the students who came to Delhi with dreams in their eyes.
15:41They're putting their names out there.
15:43Rahul, right on the top band of what you're saying is all the names who have died in the tragedy.
15:47We're putting all their names out.
15:49I'm saying it because my friend Arin refused to name these students.
15:53And I will tell you why he refused to name these students.
15:56He's right now sitting in, I think, a 60-70 lakh rupee SUV.
16:01He doesn't understand the problem of these students.
16:04Preeti, I'll show you what these PGs look like.
16:06This is a PG room.
16:07This is an 8 by 10 PG room, 50 meters away from the incident, right?
16:13And you know what's the rent of this PG room?
16:15The rent for this PG room is 30,000 rupees.
16:18This is the situation in which students are living.
16:21And we need to ask questions to ABVP.
16:24We need to ask questions to the Bhatajanta party because the current CM of Delhi is alumnus of ABVP, right?
16:32We need to ask questions to these people because there is an 8th layer BGP governance where this incident happened,
16:39right?
16:39Why was NSUI, why were people like me left to become the first responders?
16:45This is a book which I got from one of the students who lost his life in this incident.
16:51Why were we left to pick up those boulders, those stones from over on top of those dead bodies?
17:00Where was the administration which is responsible for these operations?
17:06NDRF took more than three hours to respond.
17:08And I will tell you, this was a very well calculated murder committed by the Ministry of Urban Affairs, Mr.
17:16Manoharlal Khattar,
17:18under whose watch a bureaucrat who was assigned a punishment post-in was appointed as the commissioner of DDA,
17:30which is responsible for implementing these building bylaws.
17:34Every other PG which is in this area, I fail to call these rat holes PGs,
17:39every other rat hole in this vicinity is another disaster which is yet to happen.
17:47Students are still living here.
17:50Vekha Gupta Ji came, did her tragedy tourism.
17:54She climbed over this mandir which is near the site,
17:59took a 20 minute tour there, did nothing else, walked away.
18:03Where is she today?
18:04She is ex-DUSU president.
18:06She should have remained on site.
18:07Why am I Rahul Singh?
18:09Rahul Ji.
18:11Rahul Ji.
18:12Just tell me one thing, Rahul Ji.
18:13Arun, please stop.
18:14Rahul Ji, just tell me one thing.
18:16Allow him to finish.
18:16Arun, allow him to finish.
18:18I'll come to you.
18:18I want to bring in our two other guests.
18:20Your national president was just hammering around just for the video.
18:25I'm telling you again.
18:27All right, let's go one by one.
18:29There's no point in people talking with each other.
18:30For exactly this.
18:32People like you embarrass me and embarrass the entire Delhi University.
18:36You are a murderer.
18:38You and your party is responsible for these lost lives.
18:42Rahul, you've said your piece.
18:44Where these kids are today.
18:46Okay, Rahul, you have said your piece.
18:48Allow me to go to Aryan.
18:49Aryan, you wanted to quickly respond?
18:51Go ahead.
18:52Yeah.
18:53When I went there, there was only five NSUI members.
18:58There were only five NSUI members who were just hammering the walls.
19:04Who were just hammering around like this.
19:05Well, it's not about who was hammering the walls and who was there.
19:08The national president was holding my, just to speak people, this, that, this, that, those.
19:13I'm telling you, he was holding the mic.
19:15Okay, it's not about who came in and who wasn't there.
19:18I would both urge.
19:22ABP was the only student organization yesterday which was cooperating with the police, which
19:27was cooperating with the government members.
19:30We were helping them.
19:31And Rahul, it's not about politics.
19:32And I think both of you are young enough, but to understand the empathy of it and old
19:38enough to understand the seriousness of it.
19:40So, let's not, don't drag it into petty politics right now.
19:44I'll come back to you.
19:45You know what?
19:45I'm going to come right back to you.
19:47ABP was the only student organization to protest outside MCD Commissioner's office.
19:49I will come to you, Rahul.
19:50Allow me to bring in Vijay Reddy as well and I'm coming to you.
19:52Yesterday, five are in the protest.
19:53And today, five members of MCD is suspended.
19:57You said you're protesting.
19:58Rahul, the fact is, if ABVP wants to join in in protest, that should only be welcomed and
20:04not looked down upon.
20:05And I'm going to bring in the CJP spokesperson after this.
20:08Yeah.
20:08Okay.
20:09You have 10 seconds.
20:09Make your point.
20:11ABVP wants to protest against itself.
20:13Let them do it.
20:14But they should also ask the government on the 6th of May, 2026.
20:17Listen, listen, listen.
20:20Similar incident.
20:21Who was the, who was the, who was the, who was the CM of Delhi before Rekha Gupta?
20:27Okay, I don't want to get into this.
20:28Can I just have a hard cut there?
20:30I'm moving away from this conversation.
20:32Rahul, fix your mic.
20:33We can barely hear you.
20:34Fix your mic there.
20:35I want to bring in Vijay Reddy Malangi into this conversation.
20:38Vijay, over the last time.
20:40The last couple of months, the Cockroach Janata Party has seemingly become the fulcrum on which rests at least the
20:46angst of the youth.
20:47How does your outfit, which is a political pressure group, look at addressing this?
20:52Very unfortunate what has happened.
20:54We share our deepest condolences with the families who have lost their dear ones.
20:58And we also pray for the recovery of those who are battling for their life.
21:01This is not a fight between ABVP, NSUI, CJP.
21:05This is a fight for basic amenities, basic rights, for justice that the students deserve.
21:10And this is not a one-off incident like it's already been mentioned.
21:14In July 2026, a similar incident happened where 23 people were killed.
21:18There was no fire exit to that building.
21:19It was in South Delhi.
21:21In July, in Rohini, three people were dead.
21:23In May 2026, five medical students and one engineering student.
21:27And back in 2024, in Rajendra Nagar, we know what happened with the flooding incident.
21:31So this is a civic, not just mere civic apathy, this is collapse of Indian cities that we are seeing
21:37right now.
21:37If we don't fix them, if we don't fix our engineering code, if we don't fix our third-party audits
21:42for all structural construction,
21:44if we don't have political accountability and bureaucratic accountability fixed for this,
21:48this is only going to get amplified.
21:50This is only going to get multiplied.
21:52And I want to draw a contrast here with BJP in particular.
21:55They have spent close to 11,000, sorry, 1,124 crores on their offices.
22:02And they had a very visionary plan from 2014 to build their offices in 718 districts.
22:08And they give regular updates as to in 2025, they have completed 618 offices.
22:14Now, PMOD is due to inaugurate on September 8th in Ahmedabad,
22:17which has 40,000 square feet AI, high-powered internet separate cabins.
22:22So where is the priority?
22:24Is the government, which is having power in the centre, are they supposed to build their offices or are they
22:30supposed to fix the hostels?
22:32Like you said, 1.6 lakh kids, students study in Delhi University, including the distance education and other students, it
22:40goes up to 7 lakhs.
22:41And all of these student unions, especially ABVP, which has promised to come up with new hostels.
22:47I feel very sorry to say this, but for the last 10 years, please correct me if I'm wrong, the
22:52hostels that were built were zero.
22:54Zero hostels that were built for these kids.
22:57Now, where do you expect them to study?
22:59And where do you expect them to live under these dilapidated buildings?
23:04So we need political accountability.
23:06And I strongly feel like I am a civil engineer myself.
23:09I've worked as a project manager in New York.
23:11And I know how hard is it to build buildings.
23:14You need at every stage of your construction, you need a third-body audit to be done.
23:18Do these buildings have such audits?
23:20Is our municipal department following all these legal provisions?
23:28Are we at least thinking of that?
23:29Or are we only restricting ourselves to knee-jerk reactions?
23:33I've done so much help.
23:35This is not our job.
23:36This is not ABVPs or NSUS jobs to do disaster management.
23:39Why is the disaster happening in the first place?
23:42That is what we need to focus.
23:44Fair point, Mr. Reddy.
23:45I want to bring in Naimisha, who is the founder of Euthocracy.
23:48It is an outfit which addresses the needs of the youth of this country.
23:53And, Naimisha, this is something which has been spoken of for decades now
23:59on how Delhi completely struggles and crumbles under the weight of the dreams of the youth of this country
24:07where lakhs and thousands flock to the national capital for a better future in education.
24:11And just to give our viewers a number, because it's astounding.
24:15And that's just the tip of the iceberg here.
24:18Seven lakh students who go to Delhi University from North Delhi, who come in from the outside.
24:25Seven lakh.
24:26And Delhi has only 7,000 hostel seats to offer these seven lakh students.
24:31Over to you, Naimisha.
24:33I don't think I have much to add on this, because I really don't have words today, Preeti.
24:39Because I was staying in Satya Niketan myself for five years.
24:42And honestly, nothing has changed.
24:44I'm not really surprised.
24:45I may sound as extremely cold here for saying this.
24:48I'm not really surprised.
24:49It was bound to happen.
24:50The Preeti that I have been staying in, like I was staying in, is still existing there.
24:55But the walls of the building is still leaning towards, and it will be leaning towards, even
25:01for the next debate when I'm sitting here, another mishap would have taken place.
25:04And I really don't want that to happen.
25:06But it is going to happen.
25:07Satya Niketan is not a new thing.
25:09Every single person out there knows how PG mafias function.
25:13Even I am afraid to name them, because every single person knows who they are, and they
25:17stay there.
25:17I don't even want to name there that who are the politicians, and who are their relatives
25:22who still have the posters and the stickers of MLS sticking to their car, and roaming around
25:28and running the huge buildings out there.
25:31What the exact thing happened in this PG, they literally just color up the inside part of
25:35the PG, and they show it to all the parents that this PG is safe.
25:38I was 16 years old when my father came to drop me at this PG.
25:42And I know, I hate seeing this.
25:45I hate remembering this.
25:46I remember the time when I was standing outside of my PG and I was crying, because my PG owner
25:51had locked me up inside my PG.
25:53Why?
25:53And this is exactly how the harassment happens there.
25:57Do you realize you pay literally 8,000, 10,000, 15,000 for sharing only one bed where you
26:02do not even have an access to a window there?
26:04And this is the entire PG mafia that runs, even in collaboration with the MLA, with the
26:10mayor, with the MCD.
26:12One major thing.
26:13Why is the very famous MCD commissioner, who is known for taking his dogs on a walk, not
26:18thinking to go and take his dog for a walk there?
26:21Maybe that is the only thing he's good at doing, instead of, you know, literally playing
26:25with the lives of his students.
26:26If Mrs. Rekha Gupta or if MCD commissioner cannot leave their own children out there in
26:31Satya Niketan, and then on what basis they're doing it to other students.
26:35And I just need to add this, because the MLA also stays there.
26:38And I literally have a lot of, I had a lot of respect for him.
26:41I had a lot of respect.
26:42And I had a lot of expectations for him, for the Akhipuram MLA out there before he came
26:45into power.
26:46But right now, I even have a question to them, because even his children are staying
26:50there, they must be knowing that how can he be okay with other children staying there?
26:54Please don't tell me that he was not aware, because even his family members, they go there
26:57for a walk around.
26:59It's just a systematic...
27:00Fair point.
27:02Fair point.
27:03I just want to take, you know, final words from all of you, because it's not just Satya
27:06Niketan.
27:06And what we're going to do over the course of the next few days is, viewers, a Satya
27:10Niketan is an Amar colony where other colleges in South Delhi come into question.
27:15I studied, and it's been a while, where Lady Sriram College was there.
27:19And right behind, I know the condition of the PGs in Amar colony.
27:24And I'm sure it's the same right now in Kamlanagar, any small colony around,
27:30North Campus as well.
27:32So nothing quite has changed.
27:33I just want to take final comments.
27:34Mohamed, I want to bring you in 10 seconds.
27:37Do you see things getting better?
27:40Or do you think nobody is going to listen to you?
27:42Absolutely not, ma'am.
27:43Currently, my friend...
27:44Once again, would you show me your room again?
27:46Because people need to see this once again.
27:48And tell me your last final comments, Mohamed.
27:51Can we go full screen with Mohamed?
27:54Can you see my room?
27:55Yeah, so it's a 10 by 10, and you pay 30,000 with it.
27:58And you and your roommate share the room.
28:02Go ahead, make your point, Mohamed.
28:04Yes.
28:05So this is the kind of room that I live in.
28:07And when we are expected to live in rooms like this,
28:12so they do not treat us like humans.
28:15So these student union leaders that are here,
28:18I want to question Mr. Aryan Maan that after becoming the president of Delhi University,
28:23how many times has he visited this?
28:25How many times has he questioned that,
28:27kia South Campus maybe, are there hostels?
28:30There are no hostel facilities.
28:32And if there are any hostel facilities in North Campus,
28:34let's take the example of Hindu College.
28:36It is not affordable.
28:37One year for 1,50,000.
28:40A normal person who is coming to a public university
28:43cannot afford this kind of hostels.
28:46Okay, good point, Mohamed.
28:47We'll take that question to Aryan.
28:49Anaswara, final comments.
28:51Make your point.
28:53So I think, you know, at this point,
28:56as a student living far away from home,
28:58I think we need to look beyond this
29:00as an isolated building collapse incident.
29:02For many students, you know, coming to Delhi,
29:04particularly from outside the city,
29:06private PG accommodation is the only option available
29:09for the fact that the government institutions,
29:12colleges in Delhi University do not house
29:14the entirety of its students.
29:16So we cannot, as a student,
29:18I can 100% be very sure that we cannot expect
29:21an 18-year-old or 19-year-old student
29:23to assess whether this five-story building
29:25is safe for me to live,
29:26whether its construction is authorized
29:27or are they following the bylaws of the buildings.
29:30We can't.
29:31So I don't think the answer is simply another inspection
29:33or another tragedy.
29:35The question is, why is our systems taking up
29:37these things only after the incident has happened?
29:40Fair point.
29:40Or has happened.
29:44I hear you.
29:45I wanted to go to both Arun and Rahul
29:48and Mr. Reddy especially.
29:50I hope you'll join me tomorrow.
29:51We need to cut across to Mr. Rajanath Singh
29:53who's speaking right now.
29:54But we're going to do a bigger story tomorrow
29:57and I hope to see you,
29:58all three of you back on the debate.