Two Lives Lost in Campus Pond Tragedy

IARI-Baramati Campus (NIASM) Yesterday, at around 5:20 pm, two first-year postgraduate

students (one boy and one girl), along with a scientist (Dr. Gopalkrishna),

went to collect practical samples near one of the campus ponds as part of their academic

work. During the process, the boy accidentally slipped near the pond and fell into

the water. In an attempt to save him, the scientist also entered the pond.

The girl immediately raised an alarm and called for help. Security personnel reached the spot,

but none of them were trained swimmers, and they were unable to carry out any rescue operation.

Shockingly, the college had no safety equipment, no life-saving facilities, no trained rescue