Course of Action

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.

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

Courses of Action:

I) Government should immediately make arrangement 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

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.

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.

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.

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

Courses of Action:

I) The villagers should be provided with alternate source 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

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.

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

Courses of Action:

I) The government should immediately start food for work programme in the district to put a halt to the exodus.

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

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

Courses of Action:

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

II) Management should involve experienced people for the systematic restructuring of the organisation.

Statement: The sale of a particular product has gone down considerably causing great concern to the company.

Courses of Action:

I) The company should make a proper study of rival products in the market.

II) The price of the product should be reduced and quality improved.

Statement: The Asian Development Bank has approved a $285 million loan to finance a project to construct coal ports by Paradip and Madras Port Trusts.

Courses of Action:

I) India should use financial assistance from other international financial organisations to develop such ports in other places.

II) India should not seek such financial assistance from the international financial agencies.

Statement: Doordarshan is concerned about the quality of its programmes particularly in view of stiff competition it is facing from STAR and other satellite TV channels and is contemplating various measures to attract talent for its programmes.

Courses of Action:

I) In an effort to attract talent, the Doordarshan has decided to revise its fee structure for the artists.

II) The fee structure should not be revised until other electronic media also revise it.

Statement: The Minister said that the teachers are still not familiarised with the need, importance and meaning of population education in the higher education system. They are not even clearly aware about their role and responsibilities in the population education programme.

Courses of Action:

I) Population education programme should be included in the college curriculum.

II) Orientation programme should be conducted for teachers on population education.

Statement: A recent study shows that children below five die in the cities of the developing countries mainly from diarrhoea and parasitic intestinal worms.

Courses of Action:

I) Governments of the developing countries should take adequate measures to improve the hygienic conditions in the cities.

II) Children below five years in the cities of the developing countries need to be kept under periodic medical check-up.

Statement: The car dealer found that there was a tremendous response for the new XYZ's car-booking with long queues of people complaining about the duration of business hours and arrangements.

Courses of Action:

I) People should make their arrangement of lunch and snacks while going for car XYZ's booking and be ready to spend several hours.

II) Arrangement should be made for more booking desks and increased business hours to serve more people in less time.

Statement: The availability of imported fruits has increased in the indigenous market and so the demand for indigenous fruits has been decreased.

Courses of Action:

I) To help the indigenous producers of fruits, the Government should impose high import duty on these fruits, even if these are not of good quality.

II) The fruit vendors should stop selling imported fruits. So that the demand for indigenous fruits would be increased.

Statement: The Union Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation has fixed an annual target of Rs 10,000 crores by way of tourism earnings towards the end of the current decade.

Courses of Action:

I) There is no need of development of further new tourist spots to meet the target.

II) The Ministry should evolve attractive packages to woo the foreign tourists to meet the target.

Statement: There has been a significant drop in the water level of all the lakes supplying water to the city.

Courses of Action:

I) The water supply authority should impose a partial cut in supply to tackle the situation.

II) The government should appeal to all the residents through mass media for minimal use of water.

Statement: The police department has come under a cloud with recent revelations that at least two senior police officials are suspected to have been involved in the illegal sale of a large quantity of weapons from the state police armoury.

Courses of Action:

I) A thorough investigation should be ordered by the State Government to bring out all those who are involved into the illegal sale of arms.

II) State police armoury should be kept under Central Government's control.

Statement: Financial stringency prevented the State Government from paying salaries to its employees since April this year.

Courses of Action:

I) The State Government should immediately curtail the staff strength at least by 30%.

II) The State Government should reduce wasteful expenditure and arrange to pay the salaries of its employees.

Statement: The cinema halls are incurring heavy losses these days as people prefer to watch movies in home on TV than to visit cinema halls.

Courses of Action:

I) The cinema halls should be demolished and residential multi-storey buildings should be constructed there.

II) The cinema halls should be converted into shopping malls.

Statement: Duty free technology parks where foreign firms can manufacture electronic hardware components are proposed to be established at various places in the country.

Courses of Action:

I) Government should immediately implement the proposal to augment the foreign currency reserve by exporting the products.

II) Government should not implement the proposal as it will hinder indigenous production of hardware components.

Statement: Youngsters are often found staring at obscene posters.

Courses of Action:

I) Children should be punished and penalized if they are found doing so.

II) Any display of such material should be banned.

Statement: One of the problems facing the food processing industry is the irregular supply of raw material. The producers of raw material are not getting a reasonable price.

Courses of Action:

I) The government should regulate the supply of raw material to other industries also.

II) The government should announce an attractive package to ensure regular supply of raw material for food processing industry

Statement: The Committee has criticized the Institute for its failure to implement a dozen of regular programmes despite an increase in the staff strength and not drawing up a firm action plan for studies and research.

Courses of Action:

I) The broad objectives of the Institute should be redefined to implement a practical action plan.

II) The Institute should give a report on reasons for not having implemented the planned programmes.

Statement: India has been continuously experiencing military threats from its neighbouring countries.

Courses of Action:

I) India should engage into an all out war to stop the nagging threats.

II) India should get the neighbours into a serious dialogue to reduce the tension at its borders.

Statement: As many as ten coaches of a passenger train have derailed and blocked both pairs of the railway tracks.

Courses of Action:

I) The railway authorities should immediately send men and equipment to the spot to clear the railway tracks.

II) All the trains running in both the directions should be diverted to other routes.

Statement: A large number of people visiting India from country X have been tested positive for carrying viruses of a killer disease.

Courses of Action:

I) The government of India should immediately put a complete ban on people coming to India from country X including those Indians who are settled in country X.

II) The government of India should immediately set up detection centres at all its airports and seaports to identify and quarantine those who are tested positive.

Statement: There has been less than forty percent voter turnout in the recent assembly elections.

Courses of Action:

I) The election commission should cancel the entire election process as the votes cast are not adequate to represent people.

II) The election commission should take away the voting rights of those who did not exercise their rights.

Statement: Most of the development plans develop in papers only.

Courses of Action:

I) The in-charges should be instructed to supervise the field-work regularly.

II) The supply of paper to such departments should be cut short.