Explore topic-wise MCQs in Logical Reasoning.

Statement: The exodus from villages to cities is detrimental to both.

Courses of Action:

1. Rural postings must be made mandatory.
2. There should be fewer trains linking cities to smaller places.
3. Employment generation scheme should be launched in rural areas.

Statement: Major part of the rabi crop in the district is damaged due to unseasonal heavy rains during the last few days.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should grant relief to the affected farmers to compensate their loss.
2. The government should provide free seed and fertilizer to the farmers for the kharif season.
3. The government should waive all the loans taken for the rabi crop by the affected farmers.

Statement: The Institute has fixed for the investors a validity period of one year for transfer forms for some of its listed schemes.

Courses of Action:

1. The Institute should consult investors before fixing the duration of validity period.
2. The investors should be duly informed about the validity period.
3. List of schemes covered under this validity period should be communicated.

Statement: Large number of people have become critically ill after consuming spurious liquor from a local shop.

Courses of Action:

1. I. The Government should immediately close down all the shops selling liquor till the stocks are tested for presence of toxicity.
2. II. The owner of the liquor shop should be asked to leave the town and open a shop elsewhere.
3. III. The owner of the liquor shop should immediately be arrested and tried for criminal negligence.

Statement: According to the officials, paucity of funds with the organisation has led to the pathetic condition of this brilliant architectural structure.

Courses of Action:

1. Anew architectural structure for the building should be designed.
2. The reasons for the poor condition of the structure should be found out.
3. Grant should be given to improve the condition of the structure.

Statement: The vehicular traffic has increased so much in the recent past that it takes at least two hours to travel between the city and the airport during peak hours.

Courses of Action:

1. Non-airport bound vehicles should not be allowed to ply on the road connecting the city and the airport.
2. The load of vehicular traffic should be diverted through various link roads during peak hours.
3. The departure and arrival of flights should be regulated so as to .avoid congestion during peak hours.

Statement: There is a considerable increase in the number of persons affected by water-borne diseases during monsoon period.

Courses of Action:

1. The question should be raised in the Legislative Assembly.
2. The Government should disseminate adequate information regarding the pure drinking water to people.
3. All the hospitals in the city should be equipped properly for the treatment of patients during monsoon period.

Statement: People residing in some tribal areas are far from education.

Courses of Action:

1. Government should render all help to the NGOs to open schools there.
2. A mass awareness programme must be initiated in these areas.
3. Social workers should be entrusted with the job of educating them.

Statement: There was a spurt in criminal activities in the city during the recent festival season.

Courses of Action:

1. The police should immediately investigate into the causes of this increase.
2. In future the police should take adequate precaution to avoid recurrence of such situation during festival.
3. The known criminals should be arrested before any such season.

Statement: A large number of students who have passed their XII Std. terminal examination in the country could not get admission to colleges as the number of seats available are grossly inadequate.

Courses of Action:

1. The evaluation system of XII Std. terminal examination should be made more tough so that fewer students pass the examination.
2. The Government should encourage the private sector to open new colleges by providing them land at cheaper rate.
3. The rich people should be asked to send their wards to foreign countries for higher studies enabling the needy students to get admission in colleges within the country.

Statement: The Deputy Mayor of city Z has proposed to install a plant of mineral water and to supply citizen's mineral water bottles at Rs. 6 per litre as against Rs. 10 per litre being sold by local private companies.

Courses of Action:

1. The local private companies of city Z will have to close their operation.
2. The Corporation of city Z will have to provide for losses in this project in its budget.
3. The tap water schemes of city Z will have to be stopped.

Statement: It has been reported by one of the TV channels that the answer papers of Board examination of one State are evaluated by students studying in the same standard with the help of model answers as instructed by the examiners.

Courses of Action:

1. All such examiners should be immediately suspended from their official positions.
2. All such papers evaluated by the students should be immediately confiscated and got evaluated by qualified teachers.
3. The Board should explore possibilities even though they are remote, of getting the answer papers of this examination evaluated by computerised machines.

Statement: There have been quite a few incidents of highway robbery on the super expressway between/cities A and B during recent months.

Courses of Action:

1. The local administration should immediately set up police tickets along the expressway to prevent robbery.
2. The local administration should immediately close down the expressway till the robbers are apprehended.
3. More and more people should be given training on how to tackle with the robbers.

Statement: Incessant rain for the past several days has posed the problem of overflowing and flood as the river bed is full of silt and mud.

Courses of Action:

1. The people residing near the river should be shifted to a safe place.
2. The people should be made aware about the imminent danger over radio/television.
3. The silt and mud from the river bed should be cleared immediately after the receding of the water level.

Statement: Some strains of mosquito have become resistant to chloroquine - the widely used medicine for malaria patients.

Courses of Action:

1. Selling of chloroquine should be stopped.
2. Researchers should develop a new medicine for patients affected by such mosquitoes.
3. All the patients suffering from malaria should be checked for identification of causal mosquito.

Statement: The condition of all the major roads in the city has deteriorated due to incessant rain during the last two months.

Courses of Action:

1. The city civic authority should deploy additional traffic staff to regulate the vehicular movement.
2. The city civic authority should immediately make arrangements for repairs of the damaged roads.
3. Motorists should be alerted at various places by putting up sign boards about the bad patches of the roads to enable them to plan their journey accordingly.

Statement: Many private sector banks have reduced interest rate on housing loans in comparison to public sector banks.

Courses of Action:

1. The case should be raised before the regulatory authority for investigation by the public sector banks as they cannot follow such reduction.
2. Public sector banks must adopt such policy to remain in competition.
3. The public sector banks should advertise their special feature repeatedly so that they do not lose their future customers.

Statement: The meteorological department has issued a notification forecasting less rainfall during next year's monsoon.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should immediately set up a water authority for proper management of water resources.
2. The water supply authorities should be asked to implement reduction in regular water supply to tackle the situation.
3. The farmers should be advised to cultivate alternate crops which require less water during the coming months.

Statement: Without the active cooperation between the proprietor and the employees of the mill, it cannot remain a profitable concern for long.

Courses of Action:

1. The mill should be closed down.
2. The workers should be asked to cooperate with the owners.
3. The owners should be asked to cooperate with the employees.

Statement: A large number of students are reported to be dropping out of school in villages as their parents want their children to help them in farms.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should immediately launch a programme to create awareness among the farmers about the value of education.
2. The government should offer incentives to those farmers whose children remain in schools.
3. Education should be made compulsory for all children up to the age of 14 and their employment banned.

Statement: The air and rail services have been severely disrupted due to thick fog in the northern part of the country.

Courses of Action:

1. The rail and air services should be temporarily suspended in the region.
2. People should be advised to make their travel plan keeping in mind the probable disruption resulting in delay or cancellation of services.
3. The government should immediately install modern machines which will enable it to guide the rail and air services even if the thick fog develops.

Statement: Any further increase in the pollution level in the city by way of industrial effluents and automobile exhaustions would pose a severe threat to the inhabitants.

Courses of Action:

1. All the factories in the city should immediately be closed down.
2. The automobiles should not be allowed to ply on the road for more than four hours a day.
3. The Government should restrict the issue of fresh licences to factories and automobiles.

Statement: Lack of coordination between the University, its colleges and various authorities has resulted in students ousted from one college seeking migration to another.

Courses of Action:

1. If a student is ousted from a college, the information should be sent to all the other colleges of the University
2. The admissions to all the colleges of the University should be handled by the University directly.
3. A separate section should be made for taking strict action against students indulging in anti-social activities.

Statement: Over 27,000 bonded labourers identified and freed are still awaiting rehabilitation.

Courses of Action:

1. More cases of bonded labourers should be identified.
2. Till the proper rehabilitation facilities are available, the bonded labourers should not be freed.
3. The impediments in the way of speedy and proper rehabilitation of bonded labourers should be removed.

Statement: There are more than 200 villages in the hill area of Uttar Pradesh which are severely damaged due to cyclone and it causes an extra burden of Rs 200 crore on State Government for relief and rehabilitation work.

Courses of Action:

1. People of hill area should be shifted to other safer places.
2. State Government should ask more financial support from Central Government.
3. Government should levy relief tax to the corporate sector to ease the additional burden.

Statement: Number of dropouts from the municipal schools has significantly increased after withdrawal of mid-day meal scheme.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should reconsider its decision of withdrawal of midday meal scheme.
2. The government should close down some of the municipal schools.
3. The government should carry out a detailed study to find out the reasons for school dropouts.

Statement: There has been unprecedented increase in the prices of essential commodities during the past few days due to the strike call given by the transporters association.

Courses of Action:

1. The transporters' association should be ordered by the government to immediately withdraw strike call or else they will face severe consequences.
2. The government should immediately make alternative arrangements to ensure adequate supply of essential commodities in the market.
3. The government should immediately declare the strike illegal and put all those responsible for the strike behind the bars.

Statement: A large number of students studying in municipal schools could not pass the Xth Std. Board examination causing frustration among the students and their parents.

Courses of Action:

1. The Municipal authority should immediately review the position and initiate measures to improve the situation.
2. The municipal authority should immediately fill up the teachers' vacancies in the municipal schools.
3. The municipal authority should close down some of their schools and concentrate their attention on remaining schools to improve the conditions.

Statement: Nuclear power cannot make a country secure.

Courses of Action:

1. We must stop further expenses on increasing our nuclear power.
2. We must destroy our nuclear capability.
3. We must concentrate on improving our diplomatic relations.

Statement: There has been an unprecedented increase in use of malpractices by the students during various examinations held in the country this year.

Courses of Action:

1. All the concerned authorities conducting these examinations should immediately take effective measures to curb this menace.
2. All those students who are detected to have used unfair means should be debarred from appearing in any of these examinations for the next three years.
3. Using unfair means should immediately be made cognizable offence by passing necessary legislations.

Statement: A mass mortality of shrimps in ponds on entire Andhra coast has recently been reported due to the presence of a virus.

Courses of Action:

1. The water of the ponds affected should immediately be treated for identifying the nature of the virus.
2. The catching of shrimps from the ponds should temporarily be stopped.
3. The fishermen should be asked to watch for the onset of such phenomenon in nature.

Statement: In one of the worst accidents in railway level crossing, fifty people died when a bus carrying them collided on to a running train.

Courses of Action:

1. The train driver should immediately be suspended.
2. The driver of the bus should be tried in court for negligence on his part.
3. The railway authority should be asked to man all its level crossings.

Statement: Drinking water supply to New Bombay has been suspended till further orders from Maharashtra Pollution Control Board following pollution of Patalganga river, caused by discharge of effluents from some chemical industries.

Courses of Action:

1. The industries responsible for discharging effluents into the river should be asked to close down immediately.
2. The river water should immediately be treated chemically before resuming supply.
3. The Pollution Control Board should check the nature of effluents being discharged into the river by industries at regular intervals.

Statement: The Management of School M has decided to give free breakfast from next academic year to all the students in its primary section through its canteen even though they will not get any government grant.

Courses of Action:

1. The school will have to admit many poor students who will seek admission for the next academic year.
2. The canteen facilities and utensils have to be checked and new purchases to be made to equip it properly.
3. Funds will have to be raised to support the scheme for years to come.

Statement: The day time temperatures in this summer have been four to five degree Celsius above the normal temperature across the country.

Courses of Action:

1. All the district headquarters should be alerted to send prompt reports of death due to heat waves in their jurisdiction.
2. The Government machinery should be put on high alert and provided with necessary equipments to prevent any untoward incident.
3. The Government should make necessary arrangements to provide drinking water in all the areas affected due to extreme heat waves.

Statement: It is estimated that about twenty lakh people will visit the city during the ensuing festival.

Courses of Action:

1. The civic authority should monitor the crowd and restrict entry of the people beyond a manageable number.
2. The local police authority should be put on high alert to maintain law and order during the festival.
3. All the hospitals in the city should be put on high alert in case of any eventuality.

Statement: The meteorological department has reported that a severe storm is likely to hit the city during the next forty-eight hours.

Courses of Action:

1. The administration should advise all the business and educational establishments to close down for two days.
2. The administration should not make the information public as it could create panic among the residents of the city.
3. The administration should activate its disaster management program to tackle any possible emergency situation.

Statement: In the city, over 75 percent of the people are living in slums and sub-standard houses which is a reflection on the housing and urban development policies of the Government.

Courses of Action:

1. I. There should be a separate department looking after housing and urban development.
2. II. The policies in regard to urban housing should be reviewed.
3. III. The policies regarding rural housing should also be reviewed so that such problems could be avoided in rural areas.

Statement: The Company X has rejected first lot of values supplied by Company A and has cancelled its entire huge order quoting use of inferior quality material and poor craftsmanship.

Courses of Action:

1. The Company A needs to investigate functioning of its purchase, production and quality control departments.
2. The Company A should inspect all the valves rejected by Company X.
3. The Company A should inform Company X that steps have been taken for improvement and renegotiate schedule of supply.

Statement: The weather bureau has through a recent bulletin forecast heavy rainfall during the next week which may cause water logging in several parts of the city.

Courses of Action:

1. The bulletin should be given wide publicity through the mass media.
2. The civic authority should keep in readiness the pumping system for removal of water from these parts.
3. The people should be advised to stay indoors during the period.

Statement: A train derailed near a station while moving over a bridge and fell into a river, resulting in the death of 65 people.

Courses of Action:

1. The Railway Authorities should clarify the reason of the accident to the Government.
2. The Government should allocate funds to compensate the destruction caused.
3. The protection walls of the bridge should be made strong enough to avoid such accidents.

Statement: Poverty is increasing because the people, who are deciding how to tackle it, know absolutely nothing about the poor.

Courses of Action:

1. The decision makers should go to the grass root levels.
2. The decision makers should come from the poorer sections of the society.
3. A new set of decision makers should replace the existing one.

Statement: Besides looks and appearances, it is also important to develop oneself from within.

Courses of Action:

1. One should not pay attention to fashion.
2. One should pay attention to fashion.
3. Books on self-development should be encouraged.

Statement: There is an unprecedented increase in the production of wheat this kharif season in most parts of the country.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should immediately lower down the procurement price of wheat.
2. The farmers should be asked to store the excess produces with themselves to be used for future.
3. The government should make its best efforts to export wheat to augment its presence in international market.

Statement: Courts take too long in deciding important disputes of various departments.

Courses of Action:

1. Courts should be ordered to speed up matters.
2. Special powers should be granted to officers to settle disputes concerning their department.

Statement: The Secretary lamented that the electronic media was losing its credibility and that it should try to regain it by establishing better communications with the listeners and the viewers. He also emphasised the need for training to improve the functioning.

Courses of Action:

1. Efforts should be made to get organised feed back on the programme.
2. The critical areas in which the staff requires training should be identified.

Statement: The alert villagers caught a group of dreaded dacoits armed with murderous weapons.

Courses of Action:

1. The villagers should be provided sophisticated weapons.
2. The villagers should be rewarded for their courage and unity.

Statement: Residents from Model Colony coming under North Ward of City X have complained to the Ward Officer that for last three days the tap water in the ward is contaminated and no action is being initiated by municipal staff.

Courses of Action:

1. The Ward Officer of North Ward should initiate action against residents who have lodged complaints against municipal staff.
2. The Ward Officer should ask his junior officer to visit Model Colony to assess the actual condition of water with his staff and to get samples of water tested from laboratories.
3. The Ward Officer should ask Ward Engineer to check water installations and pipelines in the Model Colony area.

Statement: Every year thousands of eligible students do not get admission in colleges both in urban and rural areas after passing their school leaving certificate examination.

Courses of Action:

1. More colleges should be set up in both urban and rural areas.
2. The number of schools in both urban and rural areas should be reduced.
3. More schools should offer vocational courses to equip students for taking up their vocation after completing their school education.

Statement: The employees union of the Municipal Corporation has decided to strike work for indefinite period in protest against the management's refusal to grant bonus.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should immediately pay ex-gratia grant to the Municipal Corporation to grant bonus to its employees.
2. The striking employees should be persuaded to defer the strike notice.