Statement and Courses of Action

Statement: The members belonging to two local clubs occasionally fight with each other on the main road and block traffic movement.

Courses of action:

• I. The local police station should immediately deploy police personnel round the clock on the main road.
• II. Those involved in fighting should be identified and put behind bars.
• III. The local administration should disband the management of the two clubs with immediate effect.

Statement: Many students of the local school fell ill for the fourth time in a row in the last six months after consuming food prepared by the school canteen.

Courses of action:

• I. The school management should immediately terminate the contract of the canteen and ask for compensation.
• II. The school management should advise all the students not to eat food articles from the canteen.
• III. The owner of the canteen should immediately be arrested for negligence.

Statement: Many school buses have fitted CNG Kit without observing the safety guidelines properly. This results into some instances of these buses catching fire due to short circuit and endangering the lives of the school children.

Courses of action:

• I. The regional transport authority should immediately carry out checks of all the school buses fitted with CNG kit.
• II. The management of all the schools should stop hiring buses fitted with CNG Kit
• III. The Govt. should issue a notification banning school buses for use of CNG Kit.

Statement: A sudden cloud burst over the island city resulted into unpredicted rainfall causing flood like situation in the entire area. Large number of people were caught unaware and were stranded on the road.

Courses of action:

• I. The local administration should immediately put in place an action plan for avoiding such situation in future.
• II. The local administration should immediately deploy personnel to help the stranded people to move to safer places.
• III. The local administration should advise all the citizens not to venture out on the road till situation improves.

Statement: It is reported that during the last fortnight there has been three cases of near miss situation involving two aircrafts over the busy city airport. In all these cases both the aircrafts came perilously close to each other and could avoid collision as the pilots acted just in time.

Courses of action:

• I. The pilots of all the six aircrafts involved in these incidents should immediately be de-rostered.
• II. Some flights should be diverted to other airports for the next few months to decongest the sky over the city airport.
• III. Air traffic controllers of the city airport should be sent for refresher courses in batches to prepare themselves to handle such pressure situation.

Statement: The major road connecting the two main parts of the city is inundated due to heavy rains during past two days.

Courses of action:

• I. The govt. should immediately send a relief team to the affected area.
• II. The municipal authority should make immediate effort to pump out water from the road.
• III. The municipal authority should advise the general public to stay indoors till the water is cleared.

Statement: The prices of essential commodities have gone up substantially during the past few weeks.

Courses of action:

• I. The government should set up an expert committee to study the trend of prices.
• II. The govt. should immediately abolish taxes on essential commodities.
• III. The govt. should advise the general public to refrain from purchasing essential commodities for few days.

Statement: Large number of students of the local school fell ill after having their midday meal provided by the school.

Courses of action:

• I. The govt. should immediately suspend the school Principal.
• II. The school authority should initiate an enquiry to find out the reason for students’ sickness.
• III. The govt. should instruct all the schools to suspend their midday meal scheme till further order.

Statement: Many people living in the slums of western part of the town are diagnosed to be suffering from malaria.

Courses of action:

• I. The municipal corporation should immediately make necessary arrangements to spray mosquito repellent in the affected area.
• II. The municipal authority should immediately make necessary arrangements to provide quick medical help to the affected people.
• III. The municipal authority should take steps to shift all the people staying in the slums of western part of the town to other areas.

Statement: Many teachers of the local school have rendered their resignation to the principal to protest the management’s decision for not implementing revised pay scales.

Courses of action:

• I. The school management should accept the resignations and appoint new teachers.
• II. The school management should persuade the teachers to continue with an assurance of considering the pay hike issue.
• III. The school management should approach the govt. for guidelines.

Statement : Drinking water supply to many parts of town is disrupted due to loss of water because of leakage in pipes supplying water.

Courses of action:

• I. The government should order an enquiry into the matter.
• II. The civic body should set up a fact-finding team to assess the damage and take effective step.

Statement: There is an alarming increase in the number of people suffering from malaria in many parts of the city.

Courses of action:

• I. The municipal corporation has advised all the govt. hospitals to store adequate supply of malaria drugs.
• II. The municipal corporation has urged people to use mosquito repellents and keep their premises clean.

Statement: Many people have encroached into the govt. property and built their houses and business establishments.

Courses of action:

• I. The government should take immediate steps to remove all unauthorized constructions on govt. land.
• II. All the encroachers should immediately be put behind bars and also be slapped with a hefty fine.

Statement: The meteorological department has predicted normal rainfall throughout the country during the current monsoon.

Courses of action:

• I. The govt. should reduce the procurement price of foodgrains for the current year.
• II. The govt. should reduce subsidy on fertilizers for the current year.

Statement: The number of dropouts in govt. schools has significantly increased in the urban areas over the past few years.

Courses of action:

• I. The govt. should immediately close down all such schools in the urban areas where the dropout goes beyond 20 percent.
• II. The parents of all the students who dropped out of the govt. schools in urban areas should be punished.

Statement: A very large number of people gathered outside the local police station to submit a memorandum on behalf of the residents highlighting police in action in curbing incidents of theft and burglary in the neighbourhood for the past few months.

Courses of action:

• I. The police authority should form a team of officers to talk to the representatives of the residents and assure them that proper steps will be taken to stop the menace.
• II. The police authority should advise the people gathered outside the police station to disburse and promise them quick action.

Statement: At least five students were killed due to a stampede in one city school as the students tried to leave the school building fearing short circuit.

Courses of action:

• I. The principal of the school should immediately be arrested.
• II. The Govt. should immediately order closure of the school permanently.

Statement :Two local passenger trains collided while running in opposite directions on the same track as the signalling system failed for a brief period.

Courses of action:

• I. The services of the motormen of the trains should immediately be terminated.
• II. The Govt. should immediately constitute a task force to review the functioning of the signalling system.

Statement: Almost ninety percent of the flights of one of the private airline companies were cancelled for the fourth consecutive day as the pilots refused to join their duties in protest against sacking of two of their colleagues by the airline management.

Courses of action:

• I. The management of the airline company should be ordered by the Govt. to immediately reinstate the sacked pilots to end the crisis.
• II. The Govt. should immediately take steps to end the impasse between the management and the pilots to help the hapless passengers.

Statement: A major part of the local market in the city was gutted due to a short circuit causing extensive damage to goods and property.

Courses of action:

• I. The Govt. should issue strict guidelines for all establishments regarding installation and maintenance of electrical fittings.
• II. The Government should relocate all the markets to the outskirts of the city.