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The given case study highlights the malpractices being resorted to ,to influence election results ,sway voters threatening the fairness of elections which are hallmark of our democracy .
Options In such situations –
1.Let the vehicle go ( reflecting unethicality ,non accountability and lack of moral values )
2.Tell the politician that I can’t do anything without my seniors permission ( reflecting timidity and gullibility )
3.But, I will take an immediate action to Siege the vehicle and take driver in custody asking questions and proper investigation about money and involvement of others . I will further complain to the state election commission so as to check in the matter further and hold the election as void if needed . I will file an FIR against the politician .Once the seniors are available ,I will inform them of the matter and the action I have taken .
Also, I will voice my concern to them about the politician involvement and his request to me ,to let it go .So,he should be punished for trying to manouver an officer on election duty and adopting such practices , by being jailed and disqualified to contest elections .
Further. I will check that why the vehicle wasn’t intercepted by any other officer from police to other authorities because in that case it will show unethicality , non accountability ,lack of honesty and integrity among them which is matter of grave concern for the administration because as is said “A chain is as strong as its weakest link ”
It is the duty of Election commission to conduct free and fair elections so that democracy can prevail .But,such events and politicians need to be identified and barred so as to preserve the fairness of electoral mandate .

Extreme high inflation or low inflation, both is detrimental to economy. Thus, maintaining general price in an acceptable range is major objective/economic policy for any government. This is called inflation targeting.

In India, CPI(Consumer Price Index) is used as a measure for inflation targeting.

Steps taken by government to containing inflation :
* Urjit Patel committee was constituted to study and suggest the range of inflation and mechanisms to implement them.
* RBI and the government signed the Monetary Policy Framework Agreement in February, 2015. The framework set to implement the Committee’s recommendation.
* As per the committee’s recommendation, an inflation target of 4% with a band of +/2% was set.
* The government also set up a 6 member Monitory Policy Committee(MPC) chaired by RBI governor. The committee upon consecutive failure for 3 quarters will have to report the reasons of its failure, thus making it accountable to public.
* Since food is major part of CPI, containing food inflation due to lean monsoon is essential. Thus, government has taken steps to create rural infrastructure like PMKSY, PMGSY, DDUGJY for feeder separation to ensure sufficient power to farmers, e-NAM portal and import of pulses.
* The state governments has also been asked to raid hoarding of food stocks and cartelisation .
* The GST constitutional amendment act is also bound to contain inflation in long run by subsuming multiple taxes which had cascading effect on prices.

Inflation targeting is should not be merely MPC’s sole responsibility. Governments both at central and state level must work in tandem to contain inflation in the set range. Setting a uniform tax in range of 15-17% by GST council, implementation of rural schemes by states can help inflation targeting achievable without relying on unpredictable rain.

The verdict of Raj Narain case led to formulation of Right to information Act in 2005. Prior to this right to information was liberally interpreted by the Supreme court as fundamental right under Art 21.
Right to information is an important pillar of democracy and good governance. Yet there has been challenges in realising the objectives of this legislation. Some of them include
# low awareness level
Women less than men and rural less than urban areas
# no standard forms of application is followed
# inadequate efforts to receive the application in electronic means, limited use of IT with non availability of basic infrastructure
# official apathy, inadequately trained PIOs
# lack of assistance in filling forms and non availability of user guides
# lack of monitoring and review mechanisms
# lack of accountability in government, failure to provide information within 30 days
How can this be addressed?
> improve record management practices
> change the drafting of RTI application itself ie, standardized and user friendly
> provide periodic refresher and behavioural training to PIOs
> ensure transparency and accountability in the process
> stringent penalties for non compliance for non submission of reports or implementation of the provisions
> upgrade infrastructure and provide IT training
> adequate incentives and recognition of work done by the officials
Empowered and informed citizens determine the success of democracy in a country. Making RTI truly accessible to all becomes a big step in the right direction.

Cyclones are wind system with low pressure dissent and are classified into two kinds – Tropical and Temperate and India being a teopical latitudinal country is.mostly affected by Tropical cyclones, the featyres if whicb are:
1. Thermal Origin – usually oeifinates due to differential sea-land heating.
2. Circular Isobars.
3. Travel from east to west as are embedded.in the easterlies (since in tropics)
4. Usually accompanied by a cumulonumbus clouds, that cause heavy rainfall on reaching the surface.
5. The cyclone follow an anti clockwise wind system in the Northetn Hemisphere while vice versa in the southern hemisphere.
6. They are usually 150-300km in diameter although they can be as huge as 1000km diameter.
7. Huge pressure geadient force and carry large amount of vapor that cause storm surge on reaching the coast.
8. The cebtral calm region of low pressure called eye is a characteristic feature of this system.
9. Some.models link their origin to the phenomenon of easterly waves.

While there are numerous other world cyclones along atlantic coasts of americas(Hurricanes), north america, as well as the south china coasts and philippines and Australia. (Phaigos, Taifu, Willy Willy). Howvwrt, India is one of the worst affected because:
1. A long east facing coastline.
2. Huge expanse if teopical water in Bay of Bengal gives greater thermal energy and landless features do not break the intensity of incoming cyclone.
3.Greater proportion of people living in the coastal regiobs.
4. Lack of evacuation plans Early warning system, inadequate crisis mapping and protection shelters in the form of coastal forests in the east coasts.
5. Lack of disaster management preparedness and resilient livelihood and infrastructure practices.

In addition to this the cyclones developing in the post monsoon period also get pushed by the prevailing tropospheric wind systems because if obsetting mobsoon in the region of south china sea, further increasing the intensity. A well mapped disaster zones, satellite monitoring using apparatus like INSAT 3DR and a powerful and efficient NDRF would help in managing such events.