Students from a Panvel-based university escalated a burgeoning health crisis to the state government. Their complaint was sparked by a spike in illness that they have attributed to the food served at the university mess.

A student delegation, represented by the Students Federation of India (SFI), reached out to Mantralaya to submit a formal representation, claiming that due to food poisoning, they had witnessed an alarming escalation in the number of students contracting jaundice and Hepatitis A.