Explore topic-wise MCQs in Statement Courses of Action.

Statement: The Finance Minister submits his resignation a month before the new budget is to be presented in the Parliament.

Courses of Action:

1. The resignation should be accepted and another person should be appointed as the Finance Minister.

2. The resignation should not be accepted.

Statement: There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of requests for berths in most of the long distance trains during the current holiday season.

Courses of Action:

1. The railway authority should immediately increase the capacity in each of these trains by attaching additional coaches.

2. The people seeking accommodation should be advised to make their travel plan after the holiday.

Statement: Every year large number of devotees dies due to severe cold on their way to the shrine located at the top of the mountain range.

Courses of Action:

1. The devotees should be discouraged to visit the shrine without having proper warm clothes and other amenities.

2. The government should provide warm clothes and shelter to all the devotees visiting the shrine.

Statement: Every year, at the beginning or at the end of the monsoons, we have some cases of conjunctivitis, but this year, it seems to be a major epidemic, witnessed after nearly four years.

Courses of Action:

1. Precautionary measures should be taken after every four years to check this epidemic.

2. People should be advised to drink boiled water during rainy season.

Statement: A large number of engineering graduates in the country are not in a position to have gainful employment at present and the number of such engineers is likely to grow in the future.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should launch attractive employment generation schemes and encourage these graduates to opt for such schemes to use their expertise and knowledge effectively.

2. This happened due to proliferation of engineering colleges in the country and thereby lowered the quality of the engineering graduates. Those colleges which are not equipped to impart quality education should be closed down.

Statement: A very large number of students have failed in the final high school examination due to faulty questions in one of the subjects.

Courses of Action:

1. All the students who have failed in the subject should be allowed to take supplementary examination.

2. All those who are responsible for the error should be suspended and an enquiry should be initiated to find out the facts.

Statement: It is necessary to adopt suitable measures to prevent repetition of bad debts by learning from the past experiences of mounting non-performing assets of banks.

Courses of Action:

1. Before granting loan to customers their eligibility for loan should be evaluated strictly.

2. To ensure the payment of instalments of loan, the work, for which loan was granted, should be supervised minutely on regular basis.

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: The Government has decided not to provide financial support to voluntary organisations from next Five Year Plan and has communicated that all such organisations should raise funds to meet their financial needs.

Courses of Action:

1. Voluntary organisations should collaborate with foreign agencies.

2. They should explore other sources of financial support

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: 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: 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 India 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 India 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: In spite of the Principal's repeated warnings, a child was caught exploding crackers secretly in the school.

Courses of Action:

1. All the crackers should be taken away from the child and he should be threatened not to do it again.

2. The child should be severely punished for his wrong act.

Statement: Majority of the students in many schools do not pass in the final examination.

Courses of Action:

1. These schools should be closed down as these have become unproductive.

2. The teachers of these schools should immediately be retrenched.

Statement: On an average, about twenty people are run over by trains and die every day while crossing the railway tracks through the level crossing.

Courses of Action:

1. The railway authorities should be instructed to close all the level crossings.

2. Those who are found crossing the tracks, when the gates are closed, should be fined heavily

Statement: There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of successful candidates in this year's School Leaving Certificate Examination.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should make arrangements to increase number of seats of intermediate courses in existing colleges.

2. The government should take active steps to open new colleges to accommodate all these successful candidates.

Statement: The availability of imported fruits has increased in the indigenous market and so the demand for indigenous fruits has been decreased.

Courses of Action:

1. To help the indigenous producers of fruits, the Government should impose high import duty on these fruits, even if these are not of good quality.

2. The fruit vendors should stop selling imported fruits. So that the demand for indigenous fruits would be increased.

Statement: The Indian electronic component industry venturing into the West European markets faces tough competition from the Japanese.

Courses of Action:

1. India should search for other international markets for its products.

2. India should improve the quality of the electronic components to compete with the Japanese in capturing these markets.

Statement: Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have agreed in principle to set up a joint control board for better control, management and productivity of several inter-state multipurpose projects.

Courses of Action:

1. Other neighbouring states should set up such control boards.

2. The proposed control board should not be allowed to function as such joint boards are always ineffective

Statement: The Central Bureau of Investigation receives the complaint of an officer taking bribe to do the duty he is supposed to.

Courses of Action:

1. CBI should try to catch the officer red-handed and then take a strict action against him.

2. CBI should wait for some more complaints about the officer to be sure about the matter.

Statement: The Chairman stressed the need for making education system more flexible and regretted that the curriculum has not been revised in keeping with the pace of the changes taking place.

Courses of Action:

1. Curriculum should be reviewed and revised periodically.

2. System of education should be made more flexible.

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: Since its launching in 1981, Vayudoot has so far accumulated losses amounting to Rs 153 crore.

Courses of Action:

1. Vayudoot should be directed to reduce wasteful expenditure and to increase passenger fare.

2. An amount of about Rs 300 crore should be provided to Vayudoot to make the airliner economically viable.

Statement: Exporters in the capital are alleging that commercial banks are violating a Reserve Bank of India 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 RBI should be asked to stop giving such directives to commercial banks.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.