GS4 · UPSC Mains

You have recently joined as the Chief Executive Officer of the Water Supply and Sewerage Board in a metropolitan city of India. Recently, there was an incident where two poor people died while undertaking hazardous cleaning of sewers in a posh neighbourhood, housing top corporate honchos of the city. The preliminary report found that a few residents in the said neighbourhood employed private workers to clean the sewers without the knowledge of the local city administration. A complaint for causing death by negligence has been registered against the concerned residents as well as the private contractor through whom these poor people were employed to carry out the task. The complaint has come as a shock to the residents of the neighbourhood, most of whom never had a brush with the law before. During the investigation, the residents of the neighbourhood complained that the local administration has not been cleaning sewers for a long time, forcing them to hire private workers. You also come to know that there has h the requisite infrastructure and provide protective gears to carry out the sewage cleaning work. In the meantime, the family members of the deceased have started pressurising the government for compensation and there has also been a media blitzkrieg blaming the apathy of the city administration for the incident and pressure to withdraw the complaints registered against the high profile residents of the neighbourhood. In light of the above situation, answer the following questions: (a) Identify the stakeholders involved in the case along with the associated issues. (b) Evaluate the options that are available to you in the given case. Which of these options you choose and why? (c) What will be the long-term measures you will take to prevent such an incident from occurring in the future? (Answer in 250 words)

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