Explore topic-wise MCQs in Statement Arguments.

Statement: Should there be a complete ban on use of all types of chemical pesticides in India?

Arguments:

1. No. The pests will destroy all the crops and the farmers will have nothing to harvest.

2. Yes. The chemical pesticides used in agriculture pollute the water underground and this has become a serious health hazard.

Statement: Should children be legally made responsible to take care of their parents during their old age?

Arguments:

1. Yes. Such matter can only be solved by legal means.

2. Yes. Only this will bring some relief to poor parents.

Statement: Should higher education be completely stopped for some time?

Arguments:

1. No. It will hamper the country's future progress.

2. Yes. It will reduce the educated unemployment

Statement: Should there be no place of interview in selection?

Arguments:

1. Yes, it is very subjective in assessment.

2. No. It is the only instrument to judge candidates' motives and personality.

Statement: Should import duty on all the electronic goods be dispensed with?

Arguments:

1. No. This will considerably reduce the income of the government and will adversely affect the developmental activities.

2. No. The local manufacturers will not be able to compete with the foreign manufacturers who are technologically far superior.

Statement: Should fashionable dresses be banned?

Arguments:

1. Yes. Fashions keep changing and hence consumption of cloth increases.

2. No. Fashionable clothes are a person's self expression and therefore his/her fundamental right

Statement: Should religion be banned?

Arguments:

1. Yes. It develops fanaticism in people.

2. No, Religion binds people together

Is paying ransom or agreeing to the conditions of kidnappers of political figures, a proper course of action?

Arguments:

1. Yes. The victims must be saved at all cost.

2. No. It encourages the kidnappers to continue their sinister activities.

Statement: Should the practice of transfers of clerical cadre employees from government offices of one city to those of another be stopped?

Arguments:

1. No. Transfer of employees is a routine administrative matter and we must continue it.

2. Yes. It involves lot of governmental expenditure and inconvenience too many compared to the benefits it yields.

Statement: Should India engage into a dialogue with neighbouring countries to stop cross border tension?

Arguments:

1. Yes. This is the only way to reduce the cross border terrorism and stop loss of innocent lives.

2. No. Neighbouring countries cannot be relied upon in such matters, they may still engage in subversive activities

Statement: Should there be a world government?

Arguments:

1. Yes. It will help in eliminating tensions among the nations.

2. No. Then, only the developed countries will dominate in the government.

Statement: Should there be uniforms for students in the colleges in India as in the schools?

Arguments:

1. Yes, this will improve the ambience of the colleges as all the students will be decently dressed.

2. No. The college students should not be regimented and they should be left to choose their clothes for coming to the college.

Statement: Should 'computer knowledge' be made a compulsory subject for all the students at secondary school level?

Arguments:

1. No, our need is 'bread' for everyone, we cannot follow western models.

2. Yes. We cannot compete in the international market without equipping our children with computers

Statement: Should all the legislators be forced to resign from their profession?

Arguments:

1. Yes. They will be able to devote more time for the country.

2. No, nobody will contest election

Statement: Should so much money be spent on advertisements?

Arguments:

1. Yes. It is an essential concomitant in a capitalist economy.

2. No. It leads to wastage of resources.

Statement: Should adult education programme be given priority over compulsory education programme?

Arguments:

1. No. It will also help in success of compulsory education programme.

2. Yes. It will help to eliminate the adult illiteracy

Statement: Is buying things on instalments profitable to the customer?

Arguments:

1. Yes. He has to pay less.

2. No, paying instalments upsets the family budget.

Statement: Should foreign films be banned in England?

Arguments:

1. Yes. They depict an alien culture which adversely affects our values.

2. No. Foreign films are of a high artistic standard

Statement: Should there be a maximum limit for the number of ministers in the Central Government?

Arguments:

1. No. The political party in power should have the freedom to decide the number of ministers to be appointed.

2. Yes. The number of ministers should be restricted to a certain percentage of the total number of seats in the parliament to avoid unnecessary expenditure

Statement : Should judicial activism be discouraged ?
Arguments :
I. No. If we leave everything in the hands of executive, justice may be distant dream.
II. Yes. Judiciary should mind its own business. Executive will take its own course.

Statement : Should government stop spending huge amounts of money on international sports ?
Arguments :
I. Yes. This money can be utilised for poor.
II. No. Sports-persons will be frustrated and will not get international exposure.

Statement: Should students union in universities be abolished ?
Arguments :
I. Yes. Students can pay full attention to their career development.
II. No. All the great leaders had been students union leaders.

Statement : Should education be made compulsory for all children up to the age of 14 ?
Arguments :
I. Yes. This will help to eradicate the system of forced employment of children.
II. Yes. This would increase the standard of living

Statement : Should the tuition fees in all post graduate courses be hiked considerably ?
Arguments :
I. Yes. This will bring some kind of seriousness among the students and will improve quality.
II. No. This will force the meritorious poor students to stay away from post-graduate courses.

Statement: Should there be a cap on maximum number of contestants for parliamentary elections in any constituency?

Arguments:

1. Yes. This will make the parliamentary elections more meaningful as the voters can make a considered judgement for casting their vote.

2. No. In a democracy any person fulfilling the eligibility criteria can contest parliamentary elections and there should be no restrictions.

Statement: Should government jobs in rural areas have more incentives?

Arguments:

1. Yes. Incentives are essential for attracting government servants there.

2. No. Rural areas are already cheaper, healthier and less complex than big cities. So ? Why offer extra incentives!

Statement: Should Government close down loss-making public sector enterprises?

Arguments:

1. No. All employees will lose their jobs, security and earning, what would they do?

2. Yes. In a competitive world the rule is 'survival of the fittest'.

Statement: Should articles of only deserving authors be allowed to be published?

Arguments:

1. Yes. It will save a lot of paper which is in short supply.

2. No. It is not possible to draw a line between the deserving and the undeserving.

Statement: Should India give away Kashmir to Pakistan?

Arguments:

1. No. Kashmir is a beautiful state. It earns a lot of foreign exchange for India.

2. Yes. This would help settle conflicts

Statement: Should India encourage exports, when most things are insufficient for internal use itself?

Arguments:

1. Yes. We have to earn foreign exchange to pay for our imports.

2. No. Even selective encouragement would lead to shortages.

Statement: Should all the drugs patented and manufactured in Western countries be first tried out on sample basis before giving licence for sale to general public in India?

Arguments:

1. Yes. Many such drugs require different doses and duration for Indian population and hence it is necessary.

2. No. This is just not feasible and hence cannot be implemented.

Statement: Should India make efforts to harness solar energy to fulfil its energy requirements?

Arguments:

1. Yes, Most of the energy sources used at present are exhaustible.

2. No. Harnessing solar energy requires a lot of capital, which India lacks.

Statement: Should there be students union in college/university?

Arguments:

1. No. This will create a political atmosphere in the campus.

2. Yes, it is very necessary Students are future political leaders

Statement: Should administrative officers be transferred after one or two years?

Arguments:

1. Yes. They get friendly with local people and are manipulated by them.

2. No. By the time their policies and schemes start taking shape, they have to leave.

3. No. This will create a lot of administrative hassles and cause a lot of inconvenience to the officers.

Statement: Should the consumption of aerated drinks be banned in India?

Arguments:

1. Yes. This is the only way to reduce the risk of exposing people to some diseases.

2. No. Each individual should have right to choose what he wants.

3. No. There is no confirmed evidence that such products have adverse effects on human body.

4. Yes. It is banned in many other countries also.

Statement: Does India need so many plans for development?

Arguments:

1. Yes. Nothing can be achieved without proper planning.

2. No. Too much time, money and energy is wasted on planning

Statement: Should high chimneys be installed in industries?

Arguments:

1. Yes. It reduces pollution at ground level.

2. No. It increases pollution in upper atmosphere

Statement: Should new big industries be started in Mumbai?

Arguments:

1. Yes. It will create job opportunities.

2. No. It will further add to the pollution of the city

Statement: Should all the school teachers be debarred from giving private tuitions?

Arguments:

1. No. The needy students will be deprived of the expertise of these teachers.

2. Yes. This is an injustice to the unemployed educated people who can earn their living by giving tuitions.

3. Yes. Only then the quality of teaching in schools will improve.

4. Yes. Now salary of these teachers is reasonable

Statement: Should there be an upper age limit of 65 years for contesting Parliamentary/ Legislative Assembly elections?

Arguments:

1. Yes. Generally, people above the age of 65 lose their dynamism and will power.

2. No. The life span is so increased that people remain physically and mentally active even up to the age of 80

Statement: Should we scrap the system of formal education beyond graduation?

Arguments:

1. Yes. It will mean taking employment at an early date.

2. No. It will mean lack of depth of knowledge

Statement: Should Indian scientists working abroad be called back to India?

Arguments:

1. Yes. They must serve the motherland first and forget about discoveries, honours, facilities and all.

2. No. We have enough talent; let them stay where they want.

Statement: Should there be a total ban on tobacco products and smoking in India?

Arguments:

1. Yes. It is wrong to smoke away millions of money.

2. No. It will throw thousands of workers in the tobacco industry out of employment.

3. No. The government will lose huge amount of money as it will not earn by way of taxes on these products.

Statement: Should there be complete ban on Indian professionals seeking jobs elsewhere after getting their education in India?

Arguments:

1. Yes. This is the only way to sustain present rate of technological development in India.

2. No. The Indians settled abroad send huge amount of foreign exchange and this constitutes a significant part of foreign exchange reserve.

3. No. The practical knowledge gained by Indians by working in other countries help India develop its economy.

Statement: Should all the indirect taxes in India be combined into a single tax on all commodities?

Arguments:

1. Yes. This will considerably simplify the tax collection mechanism and the cost of collecting tax will also reduce.

2. Yes. The manufacturers and traders will be benefited by this which in turn will boost tax collection.

3. No. No other country has adopted such system

Statement: Should India encourage exports, when most things are insufficient for internal use itself?

Arguments:

1. Yes. We have to earn foreign exchange to pay for our imports.
2. No. Even selective encouragement would lead to shortages.

Statement: Is caste-based reservation policy in professional colleges justified?

Arguments:

1. Yes. The step is a must to bring the underprivileged at par with the privileged ones.

2. No. It obstructs the establishment of a classless society.

3. Yes. This will help the backward castes and classes of people to come out of the oppression of upper caste people.

Statement: Should the public sector undertakings be kilo wed to adopt hire and fire policy?

Arguments:

1. Yes. This will help the public sector undertakings to get rid of non-performing employees and reward the performing employees.

2. No. This will give an unjust handle to the management and they may use it indiscriminately.

3. Yes. This will help increase the level of efficiency of these organizations and these will become profitable establishments.

Statement: Should trade unions be banned completely?

Arguments:

1. Yes. Workers can concentrate on production.

2. No. This is the only way through which employees can put their demands before the management.

3. Yes. Employees get their illegal demands fulfilled through these unions.

4. No. Trade unions are not banned in other economically advanced countries

Statement: Should India go in for computerization in all possible sectors?

Arguments:

1.Yes. It will bring efficiency and accuracy in the work.

2. No. It will be an injustice to the monumental human resources which are at present underutilized.

3. No. Computerization demands a lot of money. We should not waste money on it.

4. Yes. When advanced countries are introducing computers in every field, how can India afford to lag behind?