SSB Simulator

Bokaro Belt — Gas Leak & Shift Gate — SSB GPE Practice

SSB Group Planning Exercise (GPE) illustration — candidates studying a schematic map and writing a 10-minute group plan around a GTO table.

The map

Same idea as the printed sketch on the GTO table. Gold = pucca, dashed = kaccha, blue = water, pine clumps = village. Read kilometres before you divide the group.

SIDING1.2 KM0.6 km1.5 KM4 KMVVisitor hutP2Plant-2FAFA postSGSouth GateTHTownship hospitalNHand-drawn practice sketch · not an official GTO map
Thick gold = pucca. Dashed brown = kaccha. Hatched double line = railway. Blue = water. Pine cluster = village. Letter in the circle is the map code.
  • V — Visitor hut
  • P2 — Plant-2
  • FA — FA post
  • SG — South Gate
  • TH — Township hospital

The GTO’s narration

You are a group of persons as many as you are, engineering graduates on an industrial visit, when a pungent leak is reported from Plant-2. You have four cartridge masks in the safety hut (not enough for eight), one battery cart, the safety officer’s phone that can shut Plant-2 valves, and a visitor bus at South Gate at 11:00 that will not wait. Yellow-green haze is on the Plant-2 windward side; workers are coughing. A fitter inside the plume has a crushed hand and needs extraction to the first-aid post. Contract workers have blocked South Gate; the bus cannot enter or leave. If you miss 11:00 you miss the only connection to Ranchi for SSB reporting tomorrow. Do not enter the plume without a mask. Do not break a lawful protest by force. Approach upwind. Now the time is 09:42 hrs. As brave young men/lady what will you do.

10 minutes — write your plan on paper

Start the clock, look at the map, write priorities, who goes where, and clock times. Nothing is typed on this page.

10:00

Idle

A complete GPE solution (for comparison)

This is one workable plan, not the only plan. The GTO wants a split group, life before duty, and no invented resources. Compare after you write.

Priority of problems

  1. 1. Life — chlorine-like leak; shut valves, keep people upwind (P2).
  2. 2. Life — fitter with crushed hand inside the plume (P2).
  3. 3. Duty — negotiate a one-bus corridor at South Gate (SG).
  4. 4. Duty — catch the 11:00 bus for Ranchi SSB (SG).

Distance and time (from the map)

  • Visitor hut → Plant-2: 1.2 km pucca.
  • Plant-2 → FA post: 0.6 km.
  • Hut → South Gate: 1.5 km.
  • FA → township hospital: 4 km pucca.

What the group actually does

  1. First minute: one candidate phones the safety officer from the hut — valve shut and siren.
  2. Party A (4 masked + cart, upwind) extract the fitter to the FA post, then township hospital if the hand needs more than first aid.
  3. Unmasked four stay upwind at the hut, keep visitors out of the haze, help crowd control.
  4. One of the unmasked, with the safety officer / CISF, goes to South Gate to ask for a one-bus corridor at 10:45. No argument with the crowd.
  5. Board the 11:00 bus if the corridor opens; if not, the coordinator records names and asks the plant for a later vehicle — do not force the gate.

Close: Four masks mean four in the plume, not eight. Phone shuts the plant. Gate is negotiation, not a lathi charge. Bus is duty after life.

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