Statement - Courses of Action Questions and Answers

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 1881, Kitchens Ltd has so far accumulated losses amounting to Sterling 100 000.

Courses of Action:

1. Kitchens Ltd should be directed to reduce wasteful expenditure and to increase sale prices.

2. An amount of about Sterling 200 000 should be provided to Kitchens Ltd to make the company economically viable

Statement: Exporters in the capital are alleging that commercial banks are violating a Reserve Bank of China 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 RBC 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 China 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 China 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.

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:

1. The villagers should be provided with alternate source of income in their villages which will make them stay put.

2. 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:

1. The government should conduct another census to verify the results.

2. 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:

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

2. 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:

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

2. 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:

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

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