Explore topic-wise MCQs in Statement Courses of Action.

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

Courses of Action:

I. The Government should immediately close down all the shops selling liquor till the stocks are tested for presence of toxicity.

II. The owner of the liquor shop should be asked to leave the town and open a shop elsewhere.

III. The owner of the liquor shop should immediately be arrested and tried for criminal negligence.

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 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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:

I. There should be a separate department looking after housing and urban development.

II. The policies in regard to urban housing should be reviewed.

III. The policies regarding rural housing should also be reviewed so that such problems could be avoided in rural areas.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: As stated in the recent census report the female to male ratio is alarmingly low.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should conduct another census to verify the results.

2. The government should immediately issue orders to all the departments to encourage people to improve the ratio

Statement: There is an unprecedented increase in migration of villagers to urban areas as repeated crop failure has put them into precarious financial situation.

Courses of Action:

1. The villagers should be provided with alternate source of income in their villages which will make them stay put.

2. The migrated villagers should be provided with jobs in the urban areas to help them survive.

Statement: Most of those who study in premier engineering colleges in China migrate to developed nations for better prospects in their professional pursuits.

Courses of Action:

1. All the students joining these colleges should be asked to sign a bond at the time of admission to the effect that they will remain in China at least for ten years after they complete education.

2. All those students who desire to settle in the developed nations should be asked to pay entire cost of their education which the government subsidises.

Statement: A large number of people die every year due to drinking polluted water during the summer.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should make adequate arrangements to provide safe drinking water to all its citizens.

2. The people should be educated about the dangers of drinking polluted water.

Statement: Exporters in the capital are alleging that commercial banks are violating a Reserve Bank of China directive to operate a post shipment export credit denominated in foreign currency at international rates from January this year.

Courses of Action:

1. The officers concerned in the commercial banks are to be suspended.

2. The RBC should be asked to stop giving such directives to commercial banks.

Statement: Severe drought is reported to have set in several parts of the country.

Courses of Action:

1. Government should immediately make arrangement for providing financial assistance to those affected.

2. Food, water and fodder should immediately be sent to all these areas to save the people and cattle

Statement: Since its launching in 1881, Kitchens Ltd has so far accumulated losses amounting to Sterling 100 000.

Courses of Action:

1. Kitchens Ltd should be directed to reduce wasteful expenditure and to increase sale prices.

2. An amount of about Sterling 200 000 should be provided to Kitchens Ltd to make the company economically viable

Statement: A large number of people in ward X of the city are diagnosed to be suffering from a fatal malaria type.

Courses of Action:

1. The city municipal authority should take immediate steps to carry out extensive fumigation in ward X.

2. The people in the area should be advised to take steps to avoid mosquito bites.

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: 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: Footpaths of a busy road are crowded with vendors selling cheap items.

Courses of Action:

1. The help of police should be sought to drive them away.

2. Some space should be provided to them where they can earn their bread without blocking footpaths.

Statement: India today is midstream in its demographic transaction. In the last 60 years there has been an almost continuous decline in mortality; while fertility has declined over the last 20 years. The consequence is that there has been a rapid growth in population over the last 50 years.

Courses of Action:

1. India should immediately revitalise its family planning programme.

2. The Government should immediately launch a massive education programme through mass media highlighting the implication of population growth at the present rate.

Statement: There have been many instances of derailment of trains due to landslide in the hilly areas which caused loss of many lives.

Courses of Action:

1. The railway authority should arrange to deploy pilot engines before the movement of passenger trains in the hilly areas to alert the trains in case of any landslide.

2. The railway authority should strengthen the hill slopes by putting iron meshes so that the loose boulders do not fall on the track.

Statement: Certain mining industries in Gujarat may come to a standstill because of the notification issued by the Department of Environment and Forest banning mining operations and industries alike within 25 kms of National Park, the game sanctuary and reserve forest areas.

Courses of Action:

1. The Department should be asked to immediately withdraw the notification.

2. The Government should make effort to shift the parks, sanctuaries and reserve forests to other non-mining areas.

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 cinema halls are incurring heavy losses these days as people prefer to watch movies in home on TV than to visit cinema halls.

Courses of Action:

1. The cinema halls should be demolished and residential multi-storey buildings should be constructed there.

2. The cinema halls should be converted into shopping malls.

Statement: Duty free technology parks where foreign firms can manufacture electronic hardware components are proposed to be established at various places in the country.

Courses of Action:

1. Government should immediately implement the proposal to augment the foreign currency reserve by exporting the products.

2. Government should not implement the proposal as it will hinder indigenous production of hardware components.

Statement: There is a substantial increase in the number of accidents causing deaths and severe injuries due to malfunctioning of the traffic signals.

Courses of Action:

1. The traffic police should immediately post traffic personnel at the junctions.

2. The signal system should immediately be repaired or replaced.

Statement: The killer entric fever has so far claimed 100 lives in some tribal villages in M.P. during the past three weeks.

Courses of Action:

1. The residents of these villages should immediately be shifted to a non-infected area.

2. The Government should immediately send a medical squad to this area to restrict spread of the killer disease.