1. 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:
People of hill area should be shifted to other safer places.
State Government should ask more financial support from Central Government.
Government should levy relief tax to the corporate sector to ease the additional burden.
Since severe damage has been caused by cyclone, people in affected villages ought to be shifted to safer places. Also, since relief work entails huge amounts, the State Government needs to pool up funds by either of the ways given in II and III. So, I and either II or III follow.
2. 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:
All the factories in the city should immediately be closed down.
The automobiles should not be allowed to ply on the road for more than four hours a day.
The Government should restrict the issue of fresh licences to factories and automobiles.
The existing industrial units and automobiles ought to be checked for pollution level and fitted with proper equipments to minimise the same. Restricting their operation is no solution. So, neither I nor II follows. Besides, fresh licences ought to be given only to those vehicles or factories which operate at the optimum emission level. So, III follows.
3. 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:
If a student is ousted from a college, the information should be sent to all the other colleges of the University
The admissions to all the colleges of the University should be handled by the University directly.
A separate section should be made for taking strict action against students indulging in anti-social activities.
Clearly, the issue is not so big as to allot all powers of admissions to colleges, to the University only. So, II does not follow. The problem can be solved by circulating the information of the ousted students to all the colleges so as to ensure that such students do not get admission elsewhere also. This might prove useful in rectifying such students. So, I follows while III does not.
4. Statement: Over 27,000 bonded labourers identified and freed are still awaiting rehabilitation.
Courses of Action:
More cases of bonded labourers should be identified.
Till the proper rehabilitation facilities are available, the bonded labourers should not be freed.
The impediments in the way of speedy and proper rehabilitation of bonded labourers should be removed.
Clearly, the government ought to find out the reason behind the increase in number of dropouts, and also the extent to which the withdrawal of mid-day meal scheme is responsible for the same. So, both I and III follow. II appears to be vague.
6. 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:
The transporters' association should be ordered by the government to immediately withdraw strike call or else they will face severe consequences.
The government should immediately make alternative arrangements to ensure adequate supply of essential commodities in the market.
The government should immediately declare the strike illegal and put all those responsible for the strike behind the bars.
Clearly, the situation demands that strike be called off, either through warning or negotiations, and till then alternative arrangements be made to retain normalcy in supply of essential commodities. So, both I and II follow. Taking extreme steps (as getting the striking transporters arrested) at the first stage, doesn't seem proper. So, III does not follow.
7. 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:
The Municipal authority should immediately review the position and initiate measures to improve the situation.
The municipal authority should immediately fill up the teachers' vacancies in the municipal schools.
The municipal authority should close down some of their schools and concentrate their attention on remaining schools to improve the conditions.
Such problems can best be dealt with by first detecting the lackenings in the existing system and then taking adequate steps to remove them. So, only I follows.
8. 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:
The people residing near the river should be shifted to a safe place.
The people should be made aware about the imminent danger over radio/television.
The silt and mud from the river bed should be cleared immediately after the receding of the water level.
Clearly, chloroquine can still be used to get rid of the non-resistant varieties, and new medicines developed for the resistant varieties. The patients can then be treated accordingly by performing tests for the causal mosquito. So, only II and III follow.
10. Statement: Many private sector banks have reduced interest rate on housing loans in comparison to public sector banks.
Courses of Action:
The case should be raised before the regulatory authority for investigation by the public sector banks as they cannot follow such reduction.
Public sector banks must adopt such policy to remain in competition.
The public sector banks should advertise their special feature repeatedly so that they do not lose their future customers.
Clearly, the private sector banks have done so to attract more and more customers of public sector banks. Thus, public sector banks should either reduce the rate of interest to match with that of private sector banks or highlight those features which make them stand apart from private sector banks. So, either II or III follows.