From action within 24 hours against government officials who are to be blamed for looking the other way, to policy changes — Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Monday gave several assurances to the protesting students at Central Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar. He, however, left soon after as some demonstrators started sloganeering against him.

Several protesters expressed dismay at the sloganeering. Blaming student unions who had “nothing to do with the civil services aspirants”, they said the attitude hampered the possibility of fruitful discussion.

“We want to have constructive discussions with the government and put our demands forward. How can we do that when these student unions say ‘Haye, Haye’ to the L-G?” asked Ayush Singh (23), an aspirant. Saxena, whose office said he had announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the next of kin of the three UPSC aspirants who died on Saturday in the flooded basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle, said he would “attempt to get commensurate compensation to the families” following the meeting with protesting students.

According to Saxena’s office, among the demands of the protesting students was immediate compensation to the family of the deceased students by the coaching centre on moral grounds, in addition to the government compensation.