A disaster-prone State suffers a devastating cloudburst, floods and landslides, trapping more than 100,000 people. Those in your area include senior citizens, hospital patients, women and children, hikers, tourists, a ruling party regional president and family, an Additional Chief Secretary from another State, and prisoners in jail. As a civil services officer, what order of rescue would you follow and why? Justify your priorities.
What the examiner wants
For the case beginning ‘A disaster-prone State suffers a devastating cloudburst, floods and landslides, trapping more than 100,000 people. Those in your a’, resolve the Case Study dilemma by identifying its specific stakeholders and competing duties, comparing feasible options, and choosing a legally defensible, ethically reasoned course with safeguards.
Demand-wise check
- 1From the exact case cue ‘A disaster-prone State suffers a devastating cloudburst, floods and landslides, trapping more than 100,000 people. Those in y’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈65 words
- 2For ‘A disaster-prone State suffers a devastating cloudburst, floods and landslides, trapping more than 100,000 people. Those in y’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈65 words
- 3For ‘A disaster-prone State suffers a devastating cloudburst, floods and landslides, trapping more than 100,000 people. Those in y’, justify a preferred course with due process, transparency/accountability safeguards and concrete follow-up measures≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- For the case cue ‘A disaster-prone State suffers a devastating cloudburst, floods and landslides, trapping more than 100,000 people. Those’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
- For the case cue ‘A disaster-prone State suffers a devastating cloudburst, floods and landslides, trapping more than 100,000 people. Those’, do not choose an option without testing legality, feasibility, consequences and accountability safeguards
Value addition
- Stakeholder–dilemma–option matrix with a short decision flow
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Official source anchors
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