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Some years ago a sudden scary siren rang in Bombay Stock Exchange Towers accompanied by the flickering of red lights. After that there was fear and people ran helter skelter. There was an urgent announcement to vacate the entire tower and within 15 minutes the entire tower was evacuated.
Later on it transpired that due to a couple of bomb-blasts in Mumbai and on account of the apprehension of some more terrorist attacks, the concerned authorities had planned this false alarm. Just imagine, by chance if there was a genuine attack on the stock exchange towers, what could the authorities do ? How much time would it take to vacate this building ? This was the exercise used to check it.
Today's age is called the Management Era. In reality, in today's times a lot of importance is given to disaster management. More than routine operational management expertise, a bigger challenge is to manage a once in a while accidental crisis and needs greater expertise or greater dedication.
In the school and college exams, the students are given a topic on which they have to write an essay. Like, if I become the Education Minster ...........! If I become a multi-millionaire ...........! If I become the Prime Minister ....... ! By giving these topics they try to assess the imagination of the students. On this pretext, they are given a fine opportunity to imagine how to embrace such situations.
We should make a more productive and creative use of this practice, which appears to be merely imaginative and akin to
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