Q: Statement: A large number of students are reported to be dropping out of school in villages as their parents want their children to help them in farms. Courses of Action: I. The government should immediately launch a programme to create awareness among the farmers about the value of education. II. The government should offer incentives to those farmers whose children remain in schools. III. Education should be made compulsory for all children up to the age of 14 and their employment banned.
Solution: Literacy at basic level is the utmost need to prepare good future citizens. So, all children need to be educated. This can be achieved by creating awareness, providing incentives, enforcing education and banning employment of children. Thus, all the three courses follow.
Q: Statement: Without the active cooperation between the proprietor and the employees of the mill, it cannot remain a profitable concern for long. Courses of Action: I. The mill should be closed down. II. The workers should be asked to cooperate with the owners. III. The owners should be asked to cooperate with the employees.
Solution: Clearly, both II arid III directly fulfil the essence of the given statement and so, both follow.
Q: Statement: The air and rail services have been severely disrupted due to thick fog in the northern part of the country. Courses of Action: I. The rail and air services should be temporarily suspended in the region. II. People should be advised to make their travel plan keeping in mind the probable disruption resulting in delay or cancellation of services. III. The government should immediately install modern machines which will enable it to guide the rail and air services even if the thick fog develops.
Solution: Keeping in mind the safety and convenience of passengers, both I and II follow. III clearly suggests a remedy to the problem and hence it also follows.
Q: Statement: There are more than 200 villages in the hill area of Uttar Pradesh which are severely damaged due to cyclone and it causes an extra burden of Rs 200 crore on State Government for relief and rehabilitation work. Courses of Action: I. People of hill area should be shifted to other safer places. II. State Government should ask more financial support from Central Government. III. Government should levy relief tax to the corporate sector to ease the additional burden.
Solution: Since severe damage has been caused by cyclone, people in affected villages ought to be shifted to safer places. Also, since relief work entails huge amounts, the State Government needs to pool up funds by either of the ways given in II and III. So, I and either II or III follow.
Q: Statement: Any further increase in the pollution level in the city by way of industrial effluents and automobile exhaustions would pose a severe threat to the inhabitants. Courses of Action: I. All the factories in the city should immediately be closed down. II. The automobiles should not be allowed to ply on the road for more than four hours a day. III. The Government should restrict the issue of fresh licences to factories and automobiles.
Solution: The existing industrial units and automobiles ought to be checked for pollution level and fitted with proper equipments to minimise the same. Restricting their operation is no solution. So, neither I nor II follows. Besides, fresh licences ought to be given only to those vehicles or factories which operate at the optimum emission level. So, III follows.
Q: Statement: Lack of coordination between the University, its colleges and various authorities has resulted in students ousted from one college seeking migration to another. Courses of Action: I. If a student is ousted from a college, the information should be sent to all the other colleges of the University II. The admissions to all the colleges of the University should be handled by the University directly. III. A separate section should be made for taking strict action against students indulging in anti-social activities
Solution: Clearly, the issue is not so big as to allot all powers of admissions to colleges, to the University only. So, II does not follow. The problem can be solved by circulating the information of the ousted students to all the colleges so as to ensure that such students do not get admission elsewhere also. This might prove useful in rectifying such students. So, I follows while III does not.
Q: Statement: Over 27,000 bonded labourers identified and freed are still awaiting rehabilitation. Courses of Action: I. More cases of bonded labourers should be identified. II. Till the proper rehabilitation facilities are available, the bonded labourers should not be freed. III. The impediments in the way of speedy and proper rehabilitation of bonded labourers should be removed.
Solution: The problem discussed here clearly hints at the need for quick rehabilitation of bonded labourers. So, only III follows
Q: Statement: Number of dropouts from the municipal schools has significantly increased after withdrawal of mid-day meal scheme. Courses of Action: I. The government should reconsider its decision of withdrawal of midday meal scheme. II. The government should close down some of the municipal schools. III. The government should carry out a detailed study to find out the reasons for school dropouts.
Solution: Clearly, the government ought to find out the reason behind the increase in number of dropouts, and also the extent to which the withdrawal of mid-day meal scheme is responsible for the same. So, both I and III follow. II appears to be vague.
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