Statement - Courses of Action Questions and Answers

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:

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

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

Statement: SkyTV 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:

1. In an effort to attract talent, the SkyTV has decided to revise its fee structure for the artists.

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

Statement: A large number of students of a school have failed the annual examination this year.
Courses of Action: I. The school should identify the weaker students and arrange remedial classes for them. II. The school should expel all the students who have failed.

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:

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

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

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:

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

2. 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:

1. Government should immediately make arrangement for providing financial assistance to those affected.

2. 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:

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

2. 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:

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

2. 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:

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

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

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:

1. 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 education.

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