Explore topic-wise MCQs in Statement Courses of Action.

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.

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: A large number of students have been caught using unfair means during the final-year degree examination.

Courses of Action:

1. All these students should be debarred permanently from appearing for any examination conducted by the authority.

2. The guardians of these students should be called by the authority to inform them that any such behaviour in future will not be tolerated.

Statement: The Union Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation has fixed an annual target of Rs 10,000 crores by way of tourism earnings towards the end of the current decade.

Courses of Action:

1. There is no need of development of further new tourist spots to meet the target.

2. The Ministry should evolve attractive packages to woo the foreign tourists to meet the target.

Statement: There has been large number of cases of internet hacking in the recent months creating panic among the internet users.

Courses of Action:

1. The government machinery should make an all out effort to nab those who are responsible and put them behind bars.

2. The internet users should be advised to stay away from using internet till the culprits are caught.

Statement: The Meteorology Department has forecast that a severe cyclonic storm would hit coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa in the next forty-eight hours.

Courses of Action:

1. The local administration should advise the fishermen not to go to dangerous area in the sea.

2. The local administration should alert the people of coastal areas of these two states and they should be prepared to shift to safer places.

Statement: Due to substantial reduction in fares by different airline services, large number of passengers so far travelling by upper classes in trains have switched over to airline services.

Courses of Action:

1. The railways should immediately reduce the fare structure of the upper classes substantially to retain its passengers.

2. The railways should reduce the capacity of upper classes in all the trains to avoid loss.

Statement: Many medical and engineering graduates are taking up jobs in administrative services and in banks.

Courses of Action:

1. All the professionals should be advised to refrain from taking up such jobs.

2. The government should appoint a committee to find out the reasons for these professionals taking up such jobs and to suggest remedial measures.

Statement: Some serious blunders were detected in the Accounts section of a factory.

Courses of Action:

1. An efficient team of auditors should be appointed to check the Accounts.

2. A show cause notice should be issued to all the employees involved in the irregularity.

Statement: Researchers are feeling agitated as libraries are not equipped to provide the right information to the right users at the right time in the required format. Even the users are riot aware about the various services available for them.

Courses of Action:

1. All the information available to the libraries should be computerised to provide faster services to the users.

2. Library staff should be trained in computer operations.

Statement: The Asian Development Bank has approved a $285 million loan to finance a project to construct coal ports by Paradip and Madras Port Trusts.

Courses of Action:

1. India should use financial assistance from other international financial organisations to develop such ports in other places.

2. India should not seek such financial assistance from the international financial agencies.

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-developmeTnt should be encouraged.

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: 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: 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: Mr. X, an active member of the Union, often insults his superiors in the office with his rude behaviour.

Courses of Action:

1. He should be transferred to some other department.

2. The matter should be referred to the Union.

Statement: Majority of the students have failed in one paper in the first semester examination.

Courses of Action:

1. All those students who failed should be asked to drop out of the course.

2. The faculty teaching the paper should be asked to resign.

Statement: India's performance in the recent Olympic Games was very poor. Not even a single medal could be bagged by the players. Government has spent Rs. 5 crores in training and deputing a team of players to participate in the Olympic Games.

Courses of Action:

1. India should stop sending players to the future Olympic Games.

2. Government should immediately set up an enquiry commission to find out the reason for India's dismal performance.

Statement: Three persons were caught with huge arms and ammunition in the city.

Courses of Action:

1.Police should be instructed for night patrolling.

2. The three persons should be set free and their movements should be carefully watched to nab the other criminals.

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: 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: 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: Four districts in State A have been experiencing severe drought for the last three years resulting into exodus of people from these districts.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should immediately start food for work programme in the district to put a halt to the exodus.

2. The government should make since efforts to provide drinking/potable water to these districts

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: SkyTV is concerned about the quality of its programmes particularly in view of stiff competition it is facing from STAR and other satellite TV channels and is contemplating various measures to attract talent for its programmes.

Courses of Action:

1. In an effort to attract talent, the SkyTV has decided to revise its fee structure for the artists.

2. The fee structure should not be revised until other electronic media also revise it.

Statement: A recent study shows that children below five die in the cities of the developing countries mainly from diarrhoea and parasitic intestinal worms.

Courses of Action:

1. Governments of the developing countries should take adequate measures to improve the hygienic conditions in the cities.

2. Children below five years in the cities of the developing countries need to be kept under periodic medical check-up

Statement: SkyTV is concerned about the quality of its programmes particularly in view of stiff competition it is facing from STAR and other satellite TV channels and is contemplating various measures to attract talent for its programmes.

Courses of Action:

1. In an effort to attract talent, the SkyTV has decided to revise its fee structure for the artists.

2. The fee structure should not be revised until other electronic media also revise it.

Statement: The Asian Development Bank has approved a $285 million loan to finance a project to construct coal ports by Paradip and Madras Port Trusts.

Courses of Action:

1. India should use financial assistance from other international financial organisations to develop such ports in other places.

2. India should not seek such financial assistance from the international financial agencies.

Statement: The State Government has decided to declare 'Kala Azar' as a notifiable disease under the Epidemics Act. Family members or neighbours of the patient are liable to be punished in case they did not inform the State authorities.

Courses of Action:

1. Efforts should be made to effectively implement the Act.

2. The cases of punishment should be propagated through mass media so that more people become aware of the stern actions.

Statement: Financial stringency prevented the State Government from paying salaries to its employees since April this year.

Courses of Action:

1. The State Government should immediately curtail the staff strength at least by 30%.

2. The State Government should reduce wasteful expenditure and arrange to pay the salaries of its employees.

Statement: The car dealer found that there was a tremendous response for the new XYZ's car-booking with long queues of people complaining about the duration of business hours and arrangements.

Courses of Action:

1. People should make their arrangement of lunch and snacks while going for car XYZ's booking and be ready to spend several hours.

2. Arrangement should be made for more booking desks and increased business hours to serve more people in less time.

Statement: The kharif crops have been affected by the insects for consecutive three years in the district and the farmers harvested less than fifty percent of produce during these years.

Courses of Action:

1. The farmers should seek measures to control the attack of insects to protect their crops next year.

2. The Government should increase the support price of kharif crops considerably to protect the economic interests of farmers.

Statement: A recent study shows that children below five die in the cities of the developing countries mainly from diarrhoea and parasitic intestinal worms.

Courses of Action:

1. Governments of the developing countries should take adequate measures to improve the hygienic conditions in the cities.

2. Children below five years in the cities of the developing countries need to be kept under periodic medical check-up.

Statement: The Minister said that the teachers are still not familiarised with the need, importance and meaning of population education in the higher education system. They are not even clearly aware about their role and responsibilities in the population education programme.

Courses of Action:

1. Population education programme should be included in the college curriculum.

2. Orientation programme should be conducted for teachers on population education

Statement: Doordarshan is concerned about the quality of its programmes particularly in view of stiff competition it is facing from STAR and other satellite TV channels and is contemplating various measures to attract talent for its programmes.

Courses of Action:

1. In an effort to attract talent, the Doordarshan has decided to revise its fee structure for the artists.

2. The fee structure should not be revised until other electronic media also revise it.

Statement: The Asian Development Bank has approved a $285 million loan to finance a project to construct coal ports by Paradip and Madras Port Trusts.

Courses of Action:

1. India should use financial assistance from other international financial organisations to develop such ports in other places.

2. India should not seek such financial assistance from the international financial agencies.

Statement: The sale of a particular product has gone down considerably causing great concern to the company.

Courses of Action:

1. The company should make a proper study of rival products in the market.

2. The price of the product should be reduced and quality improved.

Statement: If the retired Professors of the same Institutes are also invited to deliberate on restructuring of the organisation, their contribution may be beneficial to the Institute.

Courses of Action:

1. Management may seek opinion of the employees before calling retired professors.

2. Management should involve experienced people for the systematic restructuring of the organisation.

Statement: The police department has come under a cloud with recent revelations that at least two senior police officials are suspected to have been involved in the illegal sale of a large quantity of weapons from the state police armoury.

Courses of Action:

1. A thorough investigation should be ordered by the State Government to bring out all those who are involved into the illegal sale of arms.

2. State police armoury should be kept under Central Government's control.

Statement: There has been a significant drop in the water level of all the lakes supplying water to the city.

Courses of Action:

1. The water supply authority should impose a partial cut in supply to tackle the situation.

2. The government should appeal to all the residents through mass media for minimal use of water.

Statement: As many as ten coaches of a passenger train have derailed and blocked both pairs of the railway tracks.

Courses of Action:

1. The railway authorities should immediately send men and equipment to the spot to clear the railway tracks.

2. All the trains running in both the directions should be diverted to other routes.

Statement: India has been continuously experiencing military threats from its neighbouring countries.

Courses of Action:

1. India should engage into an all out war to stop the nagging threats.

2. India should get the neighbours into a serious dialogue to reduce the tension at its borders.

Statement: The Committee has criticized the Institute for its failure to implement a dozen of regular programmes despite an increase in the staff strength and not drawing up a firm action plan for studies and research.

Courses of Action:

1. The broad objectives of the Institute should be redefined to implement a practical action plan.

2. The Institute should give a report on reasons for not having implemented the planned programmes.

Statement: One of the problems facing the food processing industry is the irregular supply of raw material. The producers of raw material are not getting a reasonable price.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should regulate the supply of raw material to other industries also.

2. The government should announce an attractive package to ensure regular supply of raw material for food processing industry.

Statement: Youngsters are often found staring at obscene posters.

Courses of Action:

1. Children should be punished and penalized if they are found doing so.

2. Any display of such material should be banned

Statement: It is reported that though Vitamin E present in fresh fruits and vegetables is beneficial for human body, capsule Vitamin E does not have the same effect on human body.

Courses of Action:

1. The sale of capsule Vitamin E should be banned.

2. People should be encouraged to take fresh fruits and vegetables to meet the body's requirement of Vitamin E.

Statement: The vegetable traders feel that the prices of onion will again go up shortly in the State 'P'

Courses of Action:

1. The 'P' State Government should purchase and store sufficient quantity of onion in advance to control prices.

2. The 'F' State Government should make available network of fair price shops for the sale of onions during the period of shortage.

Statement: There has been less than forty percent voter turnout in the recent assembly elections.

Courses of Action:

1. The election commission should cancel the entire election process as the votes cast are not adequate to represent people.

2. The election commission should take away the voting rights of those who did not exercise their rights.

Statement: Most of the development plans develop in papers only.

Courses of Action:

1. The in-charges should be instructed to supervise the field-work regularly.

2. The supply of paper to such departments should be cut short.

Statement: A large number of people visiting India from country X have been tested positive for carrying viruses of a killer disease.

Courses of Action:

1. The government of India should immediately put a complete ban on people coming to India from country X including those Indians who are settled in country X.

2. The government of India should immediately set up detection centres at all its airports and seaports to identify and quarantine those who are tested positive.