Simulation Game: Crisis Management-Chapter 314 - 156: The Central Cabinet Government Steps In

Whether it’s the train crew, Fatima, or Anurag.

Gu Ji’s purpose is singular:

To get the Indian Central Cabinet Government involved.

This isn’t just about achieving the game’s goal, Assam is indeed in a dire situation.

The current emergency rescue force of the state government is simply insufficient to deal with such a large-scale flood. If Gu Ji hadn’t repeatedly emphasized the advance evacuation of large numbers of disaster victims near the riverbank, who knows how many more people would have been swept away by the flood!

Anurag pressed his lips together in the receiver, hesitated, and said:

"The situation you’ve predicted indeed might occur; it is severe. But even if I report to the Central Cabinet now, from convening an emergency meeting to decision-making and troop mobilization, it will likely take at least half a day. By then..."

"Minister, that’s why I suggest you rally the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims in the emergency center to issue a rescue petition via online media, then contact the director of the NDMA National Disaster Management Authority and the secretary of the Ministry of Environment, bypass the Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Ministers, and report directly to the Prime Minister’s Office!"

As Anurag said, the complexity of the Indian Central Cabinet Government is no less than that of the state government.

India is a parliamentary cabinet system where, under the cabinet prime minister, there are cabinet ministers and department secretaries, equivalent to the ministers and deputy ministers of our country’s ministries. After dual approval by both, the report will reach the cabinet secretary. The Cabinet Secretary is the highest chief in India’s administrative department system, directly answering to the national prime minister, responsible for liaising the Prime Minister’s Office with different Indian government administrative departments.

The time wasted on layer after layer of approvals is one thing.

The most critical issue is that many high-ranking and powerful ministers are utterly useless, especially in emergency response, lacking crisis sensitivity.

This is mainly because many of the elected ministers in India are political cadres from different parties or simply come to power through nepotism within party leadership. Therefore, they basically have no relevant work experience in managing specific national departments or are entirely clueless.

Gu Ji specifically studied a typical negative case about this in a university course on counter-terrorism emergency handling.

Namely the infamous "11.26 Mumbai terrorist attack".

The instructor specifically pointed out that India’s Ministry of Internal Affairs minister lacked emergency training for the CRPF Central Reserve Police Force, and the National Security Guard, India’s SWAT team, also lacked the most basic emergency speed. It took an hour and a half just to make a decision, and it took 10 hours to arrive at the attack scene, resulting in the international joke of "SWAT team arriving by bus", causing the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.

Gu Ji didn’t want this mission to fail again, losing an arm or a kidney, so he could only resort to "underhanded tactics".

Anurag, who has long been in the Indian officialdom, deeply understands that escalating a report is a taboo in officialdom.

But it must be said, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. A minute faster at this time might mean saving one more disaster victim’s life. So he grinned and agreed.

"You’ve got plenty of tricks up your sleeve! I’ll get started on it; you and Fatima have to do your utmost to ensure the safety of the disaster victims on the train. If the situation becomes critical, abandon the train and escape; it’s better than drowning in there!"

"Yes! Minister!"

Gu Ji knew that Anurag was a practical official and would certainly agree with his plan.

Next up.

Is to wait! Wait for the central government’s aid approval!

But Gu Ji did not sit idly by. After setting down the phone, he first ordered the train to intermittently cover flashlights or light sources with red cloth every ten carriages and wave them outward. He also pasted several reflective flags he had bought on the train windows so that the rescue team could easily spot them.

Then he headed straight to car No. 2, the sanitation and support carriage.

Along the way, some carriages still had emergency lighting, while others were severely damaged and pitch black, showing only the black faces reflected by disaster victims’ white phone lights.

The surging floodwaters continued to batter both sides of the train windows, but perhaps the initial frenzied phase had passed; the water level was gradually dropping, falling to half the window level. Indian soldiers were still busy dealing with carriage leaks, while the disaster victims attempted, via Fatima’s arrangements, to refresh the internet constantly, trying to post the disastrous situation within the carriages online.

Fatima saw Gu Ji approaching and briefly reported the situation.

"Government officials are actively seeking help from nearby state governments. So far, they’ve only reached two. Manipur explicitly refused, but Galaya State agreed to dispatch police and fire brigade for rescue. Due to the heavy rain, the disaster victims’ cellphones have no network signal, and many situations and videos can’t be sent out!"

"This is due to signal base station damage, and the short-term congestion from many people being online simultaneously. Send messages in batches, one carriage after another, prioritize sending pictures, and take extra shots of the soldiers."

Gu Ji glanced at the Indian soldiers, then whispered into Fatima’s ear.

Perhaps due to gender differences in India, Fatima was flustered by his "close" gesture, and her ears reddened, lowering her head, fidgeting with her clothes.

Only when Gu Ji had left quite a distance did she come back to her senses.

The reason Gu Ji asked Fatima to take more pictures of soldiers was simple: On the one hand, to greatly promote the positive image of soldiers, thus placing the Indian Military Region on the moral high ground, and on the other hand, to draw the military’s attention.