Course of Action Questions

• Statement: Nearly 26% of all engineering graduates remain unemployed due to a severe worldwide recession. Courses of Action: I. Advise all unemployed students to take jobs in foreign countries. II. Advise unemployed students to take jobs only after the recession is over.
• Statement: Many private schools have violated government directives by charging fees beyond specified limits. Courses of Action: I. Identify such schools and take stringent action as per law. II. Remove fee limits and let schools decide flexibly.
• Statement: Many patients admitted in a particular hospital have been diagnosed with a serious contagious disease. Courses of Action (repaired options under Recovery-First Policy): I. Immediately evict these patients from the hospital to avoid spread. II. Make appropriate quarantine and infection-control arrangements to contain spread.
• Statement: Courts take too long to decide important disputes across various departments. Courses of Action: I. Order the courts to speed up case disposal immediately. II. Grant special powers to departmental officers to settle disputes concerning their departments.
• Statement: In some tribal villages of Madhya Pradesh, a “killer” fever has reportedly claimed about 100 lives over the last three weeks. Courses of Action: I. Immediately shift the residents of these affected villages to a non-infected area. II. The government should immediately send a medical squad to the affected area to restrict further spread of the disease and provide treatment.
• Statement: Youngsters are often found staring at obscene posters. Courses of Action: I. Punish children if they are found doing so. II. Ban the public display of such materials.
• Statement: In the North-Eastern parts of the country there have been incessant rains; heavy floods are not being ruled out. Courses of Action: I. Put the army on alert for possible flood relief operations. II. Take precautionary measures immediately (evacuation plans, stockpiles, embankment checks).
• Statement: Despite repeated warnings to students and parents, some students have still failed to meet the mandatory 75% attendance required to appear for examinations. Courses of Action: I. The college should stop adhering to this attendance criterion. II. Call the parents/guardians of the defaulters for a meeting and enforce remedial steps.
• Statement: University hostel residents faced a 48-hour outage of electricity and water, not due to shortages but because of staff negligence. Courses of Action: I. University management should investigate and take strict action against the negligence. II. Students should leave the hostel and find alternative accommodation.
• Statement: Many packaged eatables carry incorrect information about ingredients and nutrient content on their labels. Courses of Action: I. After a formal warning, ban products that still fail to provide correct information. II. Ignore the issue as long as the products remain popular with the public.
• Statement: The government-owned airline is incurring huge losses while private airlines continue to prosper and make substantial profits. Courses of Action: I. Ban all private airlines from operating in the country. II. Instruct the government airline to increase passenger fares significantly to improve profitability.
• Statement: Due to financial stringency, the State Government has been unable to pay employee salaries for the last three months. Courses of Action: I. Reduce wasteful expenditure and arrange to pay pending salaries at the earliest. II. Immediately curtail staff strength.
• Statement: Sales of ball-point pens manufactured by company Lixus have declined considerably ever since the same company introduced a gel-ink pen in the market. Courses of Action: I. Lixus should stop manufacturing ball-point pens altogether. II. Lixus should immediately withdraw all gel-ink pens from the market so as to force people to buy ball-point pens.
• Statement: School dropout rates are very high in rural areas because children support their parents in income-earning activities. Courses of Action: I. Expand public-awareness programs on the value of primary education to educate parents immediately. II. Compensation is not a remedy.
• Statement: Indian children are very talented but are nevertheless weak in Science and Mathematics. Courses of Action: I. Teaching and textbooks should be made available in the mother language. II. Education based on hands-on experiments in both subjects should be introduced/expanded.
• Statement: Despite child-labour laws, children are still frequently seen working in hotels, shops, and houses. Courses of Action: I. The Government should not make laws that cannot be enforced. II. Build out a proper primary-education system and support mechanisms—particularly targeting marginalized communities—to eradicate the problem at its roots.
• Statement: Drinking-water supply to many parts of the town has been disrupted due to loss of water from leakage in the supply pipelines. Courses of Action: I. The Government should order an inquiry into the matter. II. The civic body should set up a fact-finding/repair team to assess damage and take immediate corrective steps.
• Statement: While laying pipelines by a utility company, a huge fire broke out due to damage to an existing pipeline. Courses of Action: I. Suspend all licences of the utility company immediately pending inquiry into the incident. II. Advise residents in the area to stay indoors and secure the zone to avoid burn injuries and further harm.
• Statement: Prices of essential commodities have risen alarmingly due to a prolonged transport strike. Courses of Action: I. The Government should order the transporters’ association to withdraw the strike immediately or face severe consequences. II. Use military or alternative government vehicles to restore the supply of essential goods to the city.
• Statement: The weather bureau has forecast heavy rainfall during the next week, which may cause water-logging in several parts of the city. Courses of Action: I. Give the bulletin wide publicity through mass media. II. Keep civic pumping systems and de-watering equipment ready to remove accumulated water. III. Advise people to stay indoors during this entire period.