Statement - Courses of Action Questions and Answers

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:

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

2. 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:

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

2. 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:

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

2. 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:

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

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

Statement: The Secretary lamented that the electronic media was losing its credibility and that it should try to regain it by establishing better communications with the listeners and the viewers. He also emphasised the need for training to improve the functioning.

Courses of Action:

1. Efforts should be made to get organised feed back on the programme.

2. The critical areas in which the staff requires training should be identified.

Statement: Courts take too long in deciding important disputes of various departments.

Courses of Action:

1. Courts should be ordered to speed up matters.

2. Special powers should be granted to officers to settle disputes concerning their department.

Statement: Certain mining industries in Gujarat may come to a standstill because of the notification issued by the Department of Environment and Forest banning mining operations and industries alike within 25 kms of National Park, the game sanctuary and reserve forest areas.

Courses of Action:

1. The Department should be asked to immediately withdraw the notification.

2. The Government should make effort to shift the parks, sanctuaries and reserve forests to other non-mining areas.

Statement: There have been many instances of derailment of trains due to landslide in the hilly areas which caused loss of many lives.

Courses of Action:

1. The railway authority should arrange to deploy pilot engines before the movement of passenger trains in the hilly areas to alert the trains in case of any landslide.

2. The railway authority should strengthen the hill slopes by putting iron meshes so that the loose boulders do not fall on the track.

Statement: India today is midstream in its demographic transaction. In the last 60 years there has been an almost continuous decline in mortality; while fertility has declined over the last 20 years. The consequence is that there has been a rapid growth in population over the last 50 years.

Courses of Action:

1. India should immediately revitalise its family planning programme.

2. The Government should immediately launch a massive education programme through mass media highlighting the implication of population growth at the present rate.

Statement: Footpaths of a busy road are crowded with vendors selling cheap items.

Courses of Action:

1. The help of police should be sought to drive them away.

2. Some space should be provided to them where they can earn their bread without blocking footpaths.