Question

You are Amit/Amita staying at Sunrise Apartments, Gymkhana Road, Pune.

The main road leading to this colony has three open manholes causing frequent accidents at night. Your apartment association has complained to the Civic body of your locality multiple times but to no avail. There are no working street lights on the road as well. You are writing a letter to the editor of a leading newspaper to express your concern about the apathy of the authorities towards this situation.

Choose the most appropriate options.

Select the option that would have the appropriate organisation of ideas for this letter.

[0.8 marks]

• A. Introduce the purpose of the letter, state the measures taken by the people themselves to fix the problem, and share pictures of people fixing the potholes.
• B. Share the dangers of having potholes and no street lights - request the action that is to be taken by the civic body - state how many accidents happen
• C. Express the dangers of having potholes and no street lights - share the responses given by the civic body - request the action that is to be taken by the civic body, demand that this letter be published in the newspaper.
• D. Introduce the problems with the main road, such as the potholes and no street lights and the dangers they pose - state efforts taken to rectify the problem - share what responses were given by the civic body - propose and request action that is to be taken by the civic body

Answer 1

The correct option is D Introduce the problems with the main road, such as the potholes and no street lights and the dangers they pose - state efforts taken to rectify the problem - share what responses were given by the civic body - propose and request action that is to be taken by the civic body

The topic of potholes and no streetlights first needs to be introduced in the email. Using that as a basis, the action that has already been taken and then what is to be requested of the civic body has to be stated. This makes option d. the most suitable organisation of ideas for the letter.