<p>A 17-year-old student of National College Jayanagar, drowned on Sunday at Ravugodlu village, where he had gone trekking.<br /><br />G Vishwas and 24 students from the college had been to the village, off Kanakapura Road, on Saturday, and stayed overnight at the Gunda Anjaneya temple.<br /><br />They were part of the National Cadet Corps, camping out on the outskirts of the city. <br /><br />On Sunday morning, they set out on a trek to a hill in Ravugodlu. They came down around 2 pm. About a dozen students then went to the temple kalyani (stepped tank) to swim. <br /><br />The tank is about 10 feet deep, and Vishwas, who did not know swimming, joined the group.<br /><br />His friends were busy playing in the water and taking selfies when Vishwas went down in the water.<br /><br />Sumanth A, a student in the group, said, “We were done swimming and started for the temple, and realised Vishwas was not around.”<br /><br />A boy in our group was replaying selfie videos on his mobile phone and noticed Vishwas drowning in the tank.”<br /><br />The boy alerted Girish, the college NCC chief, and other friends. “By the time we came back to the kalyani, an hour had passed,” Sumanth said.<br /><br />Father’s misery<br /><br />Govindaiah, Vishwas’s father, was appalled the college had not called him to tell him about what had happened.</p>.<p><br />“I received a call from his friends and reached the spot. Neither Girish nor the college authorities informed me about the incident,” he told DH.<br /><br />The college had taken the boys out on an NCC camp. They should take responsibility for our children’s lives, he said.<br /><br />“The Kaggalipura police called Girish over the phone and told him to appear before them, but he didn’t turn up,” Govindaiah, who works as an auto driver, said.<br /></p>
<p>A 17-year-old student of National College Jayanagar, drowned on Sunday at Ravugodlu village, where he had gone trekking.<br /><br />G Vishwas and 24 students from the college had been to the village, off Kanakapura Road, on Saturday, and stayed overnight at the Gunda Anjaneya temple.<br /><br />They were part of the National Cadet Corps, camping out on the outskirts of the city. <br /><br />On Sunday morning, they set out on a trek to a hill in Ravugodlu. They came down around 2 pm. About a dozen students then went to the temple kalyani (stepped tank) to swim. <br /><br />The tank is about 10 feet deep, and Vishwas, who did not know swimming, joined the group.<br /><br />His friends were busy playing in the water and taking selfies when Vishwas went down in the water.<br /><br />Sumanth A, a student in the group, said, “We were done swimming and started for the temple, and realised Vishwas was not around.”<br /><br />A boy in our group was replaying selfie videos on his mobile phone and noticed Vishwas drowning in the tank.”<br /><br />The boy alerted Girish, the college NCC chief, and other friends. “By the time we came back to the kalyani, an hour had passed,” Sumanth said.<br /><br />Father’s misery<br /><br />Govindaiah, Vishwas’s father, was appalled the college had not called him to tell him about what had happened.</p>.<p><br />“I received a call from his friends and reached the spot. Neither Girish nor the college authorities informed me about the incident,” he told DH.<br /><br />The college had taken the boys out on an NCC camp. They should take responsibility for our children’s lives, he said.<br /><br />“The Kaggalipura police called Girish over the phone and told him to appear before them, but he didn’t turn up,” Govindaiah, who works as an auto driver, said.<br /></p>
