Case Study: You are an honest and efficient sub-divisional officer in the state irrigation department. You find that a major canal embankment construction contract was executed with substandard earthwork and inadequate compaction by an influential contractor. With the onset of monsoons, the embankment is at imminent risk of breaching, which would submerge ten villages. When you issue a notice to rebuild the embankment, your departmental executive engineer advises you to keep quiet as the contractor is related to a senior minister. (a) What are the ethical issues involved? (b) What immediate steps will you take to prevent disaster and fix accountability?