Course of Action Questions & Answers

Q1 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:


I. The city municipal authority should take immediate steps to carry out extensive fumigation in Ward X.

II. The people in the area should be advised to take steps to avoid mosquito bites.

Q2 Statement: Severe drought is reported to have set in several parts of the country.


Courses of Action:

I. Government should immediately make arrangements for providing financial assistance to those affected.

II. Food, water, and fodder should immediately be sent to all these areas to save the people and cattle.

Q3 Statement: Since its launching in 1981, Vayudoot has so far accumulated losses amounting to Rs 153 crore.


Courses of Action:

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

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

Q4 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:

I. The officers concerned in the commercial banks are to be suspended.

II. The RBI should be asked to stop giving such directives to commercial banks.

Q5 Statement: A large number of people die every year due to drinking polluted water during the summer.


Courses of Action:

I.The government should make adequate arrangements to provide safe drinking water to all its citizens.

II.The people should be educated about the dangers of drinking polluted water.

Q6 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:

I. 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 their education.

II. All those students who desire to settle in the developed nations should be asked to pay the entire cost of their education which the government subsidizes.

Q7 Statement: There is an unprecedented increase in the migration of villagers to urban areas as repeated crop failure has put them into precarious financial situations.


Courses of Action:

I. The villagers should be provided with alternative sources of income in their villages which will make them stay put.

II.The migrated villagers should be provided with jobs in the urban areas to help them survive.

Q8 Statement: As stated in the recent census report the female-to-male ratio is alarmingly low.


Courses of Action:

I. The government should conduct another census to verify the results.

II.The government should immediately issue orders to all the departments to encourage people to improve the ratio.

Q9 Statement: Four districts in State A have been experiencing severe drought for the last three years resulting in an exodus of people from these districts.


Courses of Action:
I. The government should immediately start the food for work program in the district to put a halt to the exodus.

II.The government should make efforts to provide drinking/potable water to these districts

Q10 Statement: If the retired Professors of the same Institutes are also invited to deliberate on the restructuring of the organization, their contribution may be beneficial to the Institute.


Courses of Action:

I. Management may seek the opinion of the employees before calling retired professors.

II. Management should involve experienced people in the systematic restructuring of the organization.