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    Cable Contractor - Aishwarya - Anand - Solanki

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    Chandran, an electrical contractor, faced financial and ethical dilemmas over an underground cable contract. He realized the soil was harder than expected, requiring more expensive equipment. Additionally, cable suppliers increased prices by 12% due to shortages. This created losses for Chandran. He was threatened with legal action if delays occurred but did not want to hand the project to a corrupt personality, despite it solving his problems. Proper planning and flexibility could have mitigated issues.

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    Chandran, an electrical contractor, faced financial and ethical dilemmas over an underground cable contract. He realized the soil was harder than expected, requiring more expensive equipment. Additionally, cable suppliers increased prices by 12% due to shortages. This created losses for Chandran. He was threatened with legal action if delays occurred but did not want to hand the project to a corrupt personality, despite it solving his problems. Proper planning and flexibility could have mitigated issues.

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    Chandran, an electrical contractor, faced financial and ethical dilemmas over an underground cable contract. He realized the soil was harder than expected, requiring more expensive equipment. Additionally, cable suppliers increased prices by 12% due to shortages. This created losses for Chandran. He was threatened with legal action if delays occurred but did not want to hand the project to a corrupt personality, despite it solving his problems. Proper planning and flexibility could have mitigated issues.

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    Cable Contractor - Aishwarya - Anand - Solanki

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    Chandran, an electrical contractor, faced financial and ethical dilemmas over an underground cable contract. He realized the soil was harder than expected, requiring more expensive equipment. Additionally, cable suppliers increased prices by 12% due to shortages. This created losses for Chandran. He was threatened with legal action if delays occurred but did not want to hand the project to a corrupt personality, despite it solving his problems. Proper planning and flexibility could have mitigated issues.

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    Problem Statement:

    Chandran, a qualified electrical contractor was facing a financial as well as an ethical


    dilemma over a contract of placing underground cables.
    Analysis:

     Chandran secured a “cable contract for replacing faulty cable” and the time allotted
    to him to complete the project was 21 days.
     The bidding process was conducted by NTNL and the lowest bid was given the
    contract. Chandran secured that bid.
     The crisis started on the fourth day when Chandran realised the unusual hardness of
    the soil because of the debris dumped careless over the ground.
     He was left with no choice but to use tractor driven drill machines which would lead
    to an additional cost of 8% to his overall project cost and no provision was made to
    deal with this unexpected cost hike.
     He managed to get 1.1 KV cable at a competitive price rate from M/S Nav Bharat
    Cables Ltd. But to add to his despair due to a strike the company that promised to
    supply cables to Chandran backed out and refused to provide cable on the pretext
    that 18% was completely based on the assumption that new machines would be
    used for manufacturing.
     Now, he was told by all the suppliers that the he would be required to pay a
    premium of 12 % on the cost price if he wants the cable on an urgent basis.
     No profit and only loss were visible to Chandran.
     Chandran was blackmailed by Anand that failing to complete his work before the
    stipulated deadline may lead to legal proceedings.
     Chandran was then thrown into an ethical dilemma by Raju who suggested him to
    handover the project to Damodar who was solely an influential though corrupt
    personality.
     Chandran was a man of principles and duping someone was against his ethics.

    Recommendations:

     Chandran should have planned a budget keeping in mind all the possibilities and
    forecasting in advance so that the magnitude of the problem could have been
    reduced. Therefore, there was a lack of planning.
     He could have been less stringent ethically.

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