Course of Action Questions

• Statement — Despite increasing BPO jobs in the country, a large number of educated youth remain unemployed.\nCourses of Action:\nI. The Government should give unemployment allowance to all unemployed youth.\nII. The Government should introduce schemes in different areas that generate employment opportunities.\nIII. Society and Government should encourage youth to pursue vocational education.
• Statement — Although India’s economy remains heavily dependent on agriculture, its share in global agricultural trade is low compared with the share of agricultural exports in India’s total exports.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Efforts should be made to increase agricultural production.\nII. Exports of non-agricultural commodities should be reduced.
• Statement — A majority of students have failed in one paper in the first-semester examination.\nCourses of Action:\nI. All the students who failed should be asked to drop out of the course.\nII. The faculty teaching the paper should be asked to resign.
• Statement — On average, about twenty people are run over by trains and die every day while crossing railway tracks through level crossings in India.\nCourses of Action:\nI. The railway authorities should be instructed to close all unmanned level crossings.\nII. Those who are found crossing the tracks when gates are closed should be fined heavily.
• Statement — Five people are killed in an accident between a tempo and a running train at an unmanned level crossing.\nCourses of Action:\nI. The railway authority should immediately put permanent barricades on either side of the tracks at the crossing so that no vehicle can cross.\nII. The railway authority should immediately post an employee at the crossing round the clock to avoid such accidents.
• Statement — Large parts of the low-lying areas in the city are inundated due to heavy downpour over the last few days.\nCourses of Action:\nI. The local administration should immediately make the necessary arrangements to move the affected people to safe places.\nII. The local administration should deploy fire brigade personnel in these areas to save the affected people.
• Statement — With improving financial status of urban parents, many children are overprotected and find it difficult to struggle when faced with adverse situations.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Parents should prepare themselves to orient their children to face difficult situations during their formative years.\nII. Parents should encourage their children to manage their affairs on their own.
• Statement — Lack of coordination between the university, its colleges, and various authorities has resulted in students migrating from one college to another seeking admission.\nCourses of Action:\nI. If a student migrates from a college, the information should be sent to all other colleges of the university.\nII. Admissions to all the colleges of the university should be handled directly by the university.\nIII. A separate section should be created to take strict action against students indulging in anti-social activities.
• Statement — The world will have to feed more than a billion additional people in the next century, about half of whom will be in Asia and will eat rice as their staple food.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Allocate more funds immediately for rice research to ensure adequate supplies.\nII. Encourage people in Asia to change their food habits.\nIII. Grow more rice in countries outside Asia to meet the demand.
• Statement — The State Government has decided to declare Kala-azar as a notifiable disease under the Epidemics Act, 1978. Family members or neighbours of a patient are liable to be punished if they do not inform the state authorities.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Make effective efforts to implement the Act.\nII. Publicize cases of punishment through mass media so that more people become aware of the stern action.
• Statement — The world conference on “Education for All” took place recently in London. Attending members endorsed a framework of action to meet the basic learning needs of all children.\nCourses of Action:\nI. India should suitably implement the action points of this conference.\nII. India should immediately organize a similar conference.
• Statement — With a change in the value system, money has assumed topmost importance nowadays, ultimately leading to criminal activities.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Social service organizations should make special efforts to propagate the importance of ethical values over money.\nII. Print and electronic media should be advised by the Government to give special emphasis to ethics and value systems.
• Statement: The officer-in-charge of a company has a strong hunch that some cash is missing from the office safe.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Immediately recount the cash with the help of authorised staff and reconcile it with the day book, cash book, and balance sheet.\nII. Inform the police at once.
• Statement: A large number of employees have gone on mass casual leave to protest the company’s new recruitment policy.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Immediately withdraw the recruitment policy.\nII. Immediately suspend all such employees from service.
• Statement: Four cases of pickpocketing were reported last evening at a renowned five-star hotel.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Instruct hotel staff to remain vigilant and report any suspicious person or activity immediately.\nII. Install additional CCTV cameras near dining and reception areas where incidents occurred.
• Statement: Local villagers report that instances of illegal tree cutting have increased over the last few months in the nearby forest area.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Encourage locals to promptly report any such activities in the future as well, with a simple, safe channel.\nII. Authorities should immediately investigate and take steps to stop such illegal activities (patrols, seizures, penalties).
• Statement: Many children in India miss out on schooling because they are employed to earn a livelihood during childhood.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Make education compulsory for all children up to the age of 14.\nII. Ban employment of children below the age of 14 years.
• Statement: The sale of a particular product has dropped considerably, causing serious concern to the company.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Conduct a structured study of rival products (features, pricing, distribution, promotions) and customer feedback.\nII. Immediately reduce price and improve quality.
• Statement: Footpaths on a busy road are overcrowded with vendors selling low-cost items, obstructing pedestrian movement.\nCourses of Action:\nI. With police help, remove vendors from footpaths to restore pedestrian access.\nII. Provide designated vending space where vendors can earn a livelihood without blocking footpaths.
• Statement: Despite several efforts, AIDS appears to be spreading rapidly in India.\nCourses of Action:\nI. Launch a sustained awareness drive to increase accurate knowledge about AIDS (transmission, prevention, testing, treatment).\nII. Actively discourage sexual promiscuity through targeted behaviour-change campaigns.