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- Question
- Statement :
A major part of the local market in the city was gutted due to a short circuit causing extensive damage to goods and property.
Course of action:
I. The Govt. should issue strict guidelines for all established regarding installation and maintenance of electrical fittings.
II. The Government should relocate all the markets to the outskirts of the city.
Options- A. if only I follows.
- B. if II follows.
- C. if either I or II follows.
- D. if neither I nor II follows.
- Correct Answer
- if only I follows.
ExplanationI follows as a measure of caution. But II won't solve the problem: poor electrical fittings would wreak havoc wherever the market be.
- 1. Statement :
Almost ninety per cent of the fights of one of the private airline companies were cancelling for the fourth consecutive day as the pilots refused to join their duties in protest against sacking of two of their colleagues by the airline management.
Course of action :
I. The management of the airline companies should be ordered by the Govt. to immediately reinstate the sacked pilots to end the crisis.
II. The Govt. should immediately take steps to end the impasse between the management and the pilots to help the hapless passengers.
Options- A. if only I follows.
- B. if II follows.
- C. if either I or II follows.
- D. if neither I nor II follows. Discuss
- 2. Statement :
Two local passenger train collided while running of opposites directions on the same track as the signalling system failed for a brief period.
Course of action :
I. The services of the motormen of the train should immediately be terminated.
II. The Govt. should immediately constitute a task force to review the functioning of the functioning of signalling system
Options- A. if only I follows.
- B. if II follows.
- C. if either I or II follows
- D. if neither I nor II follows. Discuss
- 3. Statement :
At least five students were killed due to a stampede in one city school as the student tried to leave the school building, fearing short circuit.
Course of action :
I. The principal of the school should be arrested immediately.
II. The Govt. should immediately order closure of the school permanently.
Options- A. if only I follows.
- B. if II follows.
- C. if either I or II follows.
- D. if neither I nor II follows. Discuss
- 4. Statement :
A very large number of people gathered outside the local police station to submit a memorandum on behalf of the residents highlighting police inaction in curbing incidents of theft and burglary in the neighborhood for the past few month.
Course of action:
I The police authority should form a team of officers to talk to the representatives of the residents and assure them that proper steps will be taken to stop the menace.
II. The police authority should advise the people gathered outside the police station to disburse and promise them quick action.
Options- A. if only I follows.
- B. if II follows.
- C. if either I or II follows.
- D. if neither I nor II follows. Discuss
- 5. Statement :
The number of dropouts in govt. schools has significantly increased in the urban area over the past years
Course of action :
The govt. should immediately close down all such schools in the urban area where the dropout goes beyond 20 percent
II. The parents off all the students who dropped out of govt. schools in urban areas should be punished.
Options- A. if only course of action I is follows.
- B. if only course of action II is follows.
- C. if either course of action I or II is follows.
- D. if neither course of action I nor II is follows. Discuss
- 6. Statement :
An increasing number of farmers prefer to avail loans from local money leaders instead of the bank owing to complicated paperwork involved in banks.
Course of action :
I Local money leaders who charge interest rates lower than the bank should be punished
II. Bank should simplify the procedure to avail of loans so as to suit the farmers.
Options- A. if only I follows
- B. if only II follows.
- C. if either I or II follows.
- D. if neither I nor II follows. Discuss
- 7. Statement :
A major river in the city was reduced to a polluted and dirty canal after tonnes of sewage made way into it over the years.
Course of action :
I All those who dumped garbage and sewage into the river should be penalized.
II. The Government should modify the sewage system and find an alternate way to dump the city's waste.
Options- A. if only I follows.
- B. if only II follows.
- C. if either I or II follows.
- D. if neither I nor II follows. Discuss
- 8. Statement :
Water table in most part of the State has gone sown to such a level that its extraction for irrigation purpose is not economical any more
Course of action :
I Extraction of ground water for any purpose in the state should be banned for some time in order to replenish the water table.
II. The Government should made provisions for alternative method of irrigation so that the farmers are not compelled to use ground water.
Options- A. if only I follows.
- B. if only II follows.
- C. if either I or II follows.
- D. if neither I nor II follows. Discuss
- 9. Statement :
A university librarian reported increase cases of theft of books from the library.
Course of action :
I Stricter security arrangements should be put in pace in order to prevent such incidents.
II. All the students in the university should be made to pay a hefty fine in order to replace the lost books.
Options- A. if only I follows.
- B. if only II follows.
- C. if either I or II follows.
- D. if neither I nor III follows. Discuss
- 10. Statement :
Indigenous tribes living near Amazon forest are cutting down the trees to cover their basic needs, thus severely affecting the ecological balance in the computer.
Course of action :
I. All the tribes living near Amazon rain forest should be forced to shift to urban areas of the country.
Options- A. if only I follows.
- B. if only II follows.
- C. if either I Or II follows.
- D. if neither I nor II follows. Discuss
Course of Action problems
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Correct Answer: if II follows.
Explanation:
if the govt goes for I, it would impinge on the autonomy of the private sector.
Correct Answer: if II follows.
Explanation:
Motormen should not be made the scapegoat for the failure of the signalling system.
Correct Answer: if neither I nor II follows.
Explanation:
Both of these are extreme action.
Correct Answer: if II follows.
Explanation:
II is the immediate course of action while I can be implemented a bit later.
Correct Answer: if neither course of action I nor II is follows.
Explanation:
Both are extreme courses of action.
Correct Answer: if only II follows.
Explanation:
I is simply absurd. II follows as a solution to be complicated paperwork.
Correct Answer: if only II follows.
Explanation:
I is easier said than done. Even I makes sense only when the govt goes for II.
Correct Answer: if only II follows.
Explanation:
I is impractical. . .Water is essential for life to go on. II is sensible, especially when using ground water is proving to be uneconomical.
Correct Answer: if only I follows.
Explanation:
I is the obvious course of action. But II is absurd punishment for thieves in understandable. But how can you punish "all the student"?
Correct Answer: if neither I nor II follows.
Explanation:
I is simply absurd. But even II is not the solution.
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