Statements : The Meteorological Department has issued a notification forecasting less rainfall during next year's monsoon.
Courses of Action :
I. The farmers should be advised to be ready for the eventuality.
II. The government should make arrangement to provide water to affected areas.
Punjab Civil Service - 2018,
Answer: D
Both I and II follow.
A forecast of a weak monsoon is a warning that farming areas may face a shortage of water. Advising farmers to prepare for that eventuality, for instance by choosing crops and sowing plans suited to less rain, is a sensible follow-up step, so course I follows. Arranging to supply water to the areas likely to be affected is the government's practical response to the same problem, so course II follows too.
Both actions address the problem that the statement identifies without going beyond it, so options accepting only one of them, or neither, are wrong.
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