Statement - Conclusions Questions and Answers

Statements: Prime age school-going children in urban India have now become avid as well as more regular viewers of television, even in households without a TV. As a result there has been an alarming decline in the extent of readership of newspapers.

Conclusions:

1. Method of increasing the readership of newspapers should be devised.

2. A team of experts should be sent to other countries to study the impact of TV. on the readership of newspapers.

Statements: In Japan, the incidence of stomach cancer is very high, while that of bowel cancer is very low. But Japanese immigrate to Hawaii, this is reversed - the rate of bowel cancer increases but the rate of stomach cancer is reduced in the next generation. All this is related to nutrition - the diets of Japanese in Hawaii are different than those in Japan.

Conclusions:

1. The same diet as in Hawaii should be propagated in Japan also.

2. Bowel cancer is less severe than stomach cancer.

Statements: The Government run company had asked its employees to declare their income and assets but it has been strongly resisted by employees union and no employee is going to declare his income.

Conclusions:

1. The employees of this company do not seem to have any additional undisclosed income besides their salary.

2. The employees union wants all senior officers to declare their income first.

Statements: Monitoring has become an integral part in the planning of social development programmes. It is recommended that Management Information System be developed for all programmes. This is likely to give a feedback on the performance of the functionaries and the efficacy with which services are being delivered.

Conclusions:

1. All the social development programmes should be evaluated.

2. There is a need to monitor the performance of workers.

Statements: The T.V. programmes, telecast specially for women are packed with a variety of recipes and household hints. A major portion of magazines for women also contains the items mentioned above.

Conclusions:

1. Women are not interested in other things.

2. An average woman's primary interest lies in home and specially in the kitchen

Statements: The distance of 900 km by road between Bombay and Jafra will be reduced to 280 km by sea. This will lead to a saving of Rs. 7.92 crores per annum on fuel.

Conclusions:

1. Transportation by sea is cheaper than that by road.

2. Fuel must be saved to the greatest extent

Statements: The manager humiliated Sachin in the presence of his colleagues.

Conclusions:

1. The manager did not like Sachin.

2. Sachin was not popular with his colleagues.

Statements: Women's organisations in India have welcomed the amendment of the Industrial Employment Rules 1946 to curb sexual harassment at the work place.

Conclusions:

1. Sexual harassment of women at work place is more prevalent in India as compared to other developed countries.

2. Many organisations in India will stop recruiting women to avoid such problems

Statements: Nation X faced growing international opposition for its decision to explode eight nuclear weapons at its test site.

Conclusions:

1. The citizens of the nation favoured the decision.

2. Some powerful countries do not want other nations to become as powerful as they are

Statements: In a highly centralised power structure, in which even senior cabinet ministers are prepared to reduce themselves to pathetic courtiers or yesmen airing views that are primarily intended to anticipate or reflect the Prime Minister's own performances, there can be no place for any consensus that is quite different from real or contrived unanimity of opinion, expressed through a well orchestrated endorsement of the leader's actions.

Conclusions:

1. The Ministers play safe by not giving anti-government views.

2. The Prime Minister does not encourage his colleagues to render their own views