Death of students: The familiarity of water tragedies in India
June 9, 2014
The tragedy of 24 students from an engineering college, who were washed away by the Beas River in Himachal Pradesh, calls for a deep introspection on why such tragedies keep happening
Vinita Deshmukh
As per news reports, at least 24 students, including six girls from Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (VNR) in Hyderabad, who were on a college trip to Manali were washed away by the strong water currents when there was a sudden discharge into the Beas River from a reservoir of the 126 MW Larji hydel power project around 2km away. The students were posing for photographs, when they were washed away by the water surge.