In each question below is given a statement followed by two courses of action numbered 1 and 2 . You have to assume everything in the statement to be true and on the basis of the information given in the statement, decide which of the suggested courses of action logically follow(s) for pursuing.

Statement: A large number of people in ward X of the city are diagnosed to be suffering from a fatal malaria type.

Courses of Action:

The city municipal authority should take immediate steps to carry out extensive fumigation in ward X.
The people in the area should be advised to take steps to avoid mosquito bites.

Statement: A large number of people die every year due to drinking polluted water during the summer.

Courses of Action:

The government should make adequate arrangements to provide safe drinking water to all its citizens.
The people should be educated about the dangers of drinking polluted water.

Statement: The car dealer found that there was a tremendous response for the new XYZ's car-booking with long queues of people complaining about the duration of business hours and arrangements.

Courses of Action:

1. People should make their arrangement of lunch and snacks while going for car XYZ's booking and be ready to spend several hours.
2.Arrangement should be made for more booking desks and increased business hours to serve more people in less time.

tatement: The State Government has decided to declare 'Kala Azar' as a notifiable disease under the Epidemics Act. Family members or neighbours of the patient are liable to be punished in case they did not inform the State authorities.

Courses of Action:

1. Efforts should be made to effectively implement the Act.
2. The cases of punishment should be propagated through mass media so that more people become aware of the stern actions

Statement: The Chairman stressed the need for making education system more flexible and regretted that the curriculum has not been revised in keeping with the pace of the changes taking place.

Courses of Action:

1. Curriculum should be reviewed and revised periodically.
2. System of education should be made more flexible.

Statement: The Central Bureau of Investigation receives the complaint of an officer taking bribe to do the duty he is supposed to.

Courses of Action:

1. CBI should try to catch the officer red-handed and then take a strict action against him.
2. CBI should wait for some more complaints about the officer to be sure about the matter.

Statement: A large number of engineering graduates in the country are not in a position to have gainful employment at present and the number of such engineers is likely to grow in the future.

Courses of Action:

1. The government should launch attractive employment generation schemes and encourage these graduates to opt for such schemes to use their expertise and knowledge effectively.
2. This happened due to proliferation of engineering colleges in the country and thereby lowered the quality of the engineering graduates. Those colleges which are not equipped to impart quality education should be closed down.

Statement: Every year, at the beginning or at the end of the monsoons, we have some cases of conjunctivitis, but this year, it seems to be a major epidemic, witnessed after nearly four years.

Courses of Action:

1. Precautionary measures should be taken after every four years to check this epidemic.
2. People should be advised to drink boiled water during rainy season.

Statement: There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of requests for berths in most of the long distance trains during the current holiday season.

Courses of Action:

1. The railway authority should immediately increase the capacity in each of these trains by attaching additional coaches.
2. The people seeking accommodation should be advised to make their travel plan after the holiday.

Statement: There has been less than forty percent voter turnout in the recent assembly elections.

Courses of Action:

1. The election commission should cancel the entire election process as the votes cast are not adequate to represent people.
2. The election commission should take away the voting rights of those who did not exercise their rights.

Statement: Most of the development plans develop in papers only.

Courses of Action:

1. The in-charges should be instructed to supervise the field-work regularly.
2. The supply of paper to such departments should be cut short.

Statement: The vegetable traders feel that the prices of onion will again go up shortly in the State 'P'

Courses of Action:

1. The 'P' State Government should purchase and store sufficient quantity of onion in advance to control prices.
2. The 'F' State Government should make available network of fair price shops for the sale of onions during the period of shortage.

Statement: It is reported that though Vitamin E present in fresh fruits and vegetables is beneficial for human body, capsule Vitamin E does not have the same effect on human body.

Courses of Action:

1. The sale of capsule Vitamin E should be banned.
2. People should be encouraged to take fresh fruits and vegetables to meet the body's requirement of Vitamin E.

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 Asian Development Bank has approved a $285 million loan to finance a project to construct coal ports by Paradip and Madras Port Trusts.

Courses of Action:

India should use financial assistance from other international financial organisations to develop such ports in other places.
India should not seek such financial assistance from the international financial agencies.

Statement: Doordarshan is concerned about the quality of its programmes particularly in view of stiff competition it is facing from STAR and other satellite TV channels and is contemplating various measures to attract talent for its programmes.

Courses of Action:

1. In an effort to attract talent, the Doordarshan has decided to revise its fee structure for the artists.
2. The fee structure should not be revised until other electronic media also revise it.

Statement: The Minister said that the teachers are still not familiarised with the need, importance and meaning of population education in the higher education system. They are not even clearly aware about their role and responsibilities in the population education programme.

Courses of Action:

1. Population education programme should be included in the college curriculum.
2. Orientation programme should be conducted for teachers on population education

Statement: A recent study shows that children below five die in the cities of the developing countries mainly from diarrhoea and parasitic intestinal worms.

Courses of Action:

1. Governments of the developing countries should take adequate measures to improve the hygienic conditions in the cities.
2. Children below five years in the cities of the developing countries need to be kept under periodic medical check-up.

Statement: On an average, about twenty people are run over by trains and die every day while crossing the railway tracks through the level crossing.

Courses of Action:

1. The railway authorities should be instructed to close all the level crossings.
2. Those who are found crossing the tracks, when the gates are closed, should be fined heavily.

Statement: Majority of the students in many schools do not pass in the final examination.

Courses of Action:

1. These schools should be closed down as these have become unproductive.
2. The teachers of these schools should immediately be retrenched.

Statement: In spite of the Principal's repeated warnings, a child was caught exploding crackers secretly in the school.

Courses of Action:

1. All the crackers should be taken away from the child and he should be threatened not to do it again.
2. The child should be severely punished for his wrong act.

Statement: A very large number of students have failed in the final high school examination due to faulty questions in one of the subjects.

Courses of Action:

1. All the students who have failed in the subject should be allowed to take supplementary examination.
2. All those who are responsible for the error should be suspended and an enquiry should be initiated to find out the facts.

Statement: Researchers are feeling agitated as libraries are not equipped to provide the right information to the right users at the right time in the required format. Even the users are riot aware about the various services available for them.

Courses of Action:

1. All the information available to the libraries should be computerised to provide faster services to the users.
2. Library staff should be trained in computer operations.

Statement: Many medical and engineering graduates are taking up jobs in administrative services and in banks.

Courses of Action:

1. All the professionals should be advised to refrain from taking up such jobs.
2. The government should appoint a committee to find out the reasons for these professionals taking up such jobs and to suggest remedial measures.

Statement: Due to substantial reduction in fares by different airline services, large number of passengers so far travelling by upper classes in trains have switched over to airline services.

Courses of Action:

1. The railways should immediately reduce the fare structure of the upper classes substantially to retain its passengers.
2. The railways should reduce the capacity of upper classes in all the trains to avoid loss.

Statement: The Meteorology Department has forecast that a severe cyclonic storm would hit coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa in the next forty-eight hours.

Courses of Action:

1. The local administration should advise the fishermen not to go to dangerous area in the sea.
2. The local administration should alert the people of coastal areas of these two states and they should be prepared to shift to safer places.

Statement: There has been large number of cases of internet hacking in the recent months creating panic among the internet users.

Courses of Action:

1. The government machinery should make an all out effort to nab those who are responsible and put them behind bars.
2. The internet users should be advised to stay away from using internet till the culprits are caught.

Statement: The Union Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation has fixed an annual target of Rs 10,000 crores by way of tourism earnings towards the end of the current decade.

Courses of Action:

1. There is no need of development of further new tourist spots to meet the target.
2. The Ministry should evolve attractive packages to woo the foreign tourists to meet the target.

Statement: The alert villagers caught a group of dreaded dacoits armed with murderous weapons.

Courses of Action:

1. The villagers should be provided sophisticated weapons.
2. The villagers should be rewarded for their courage and unity.

In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered 1, 2 and 3. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the three given suggested courses of action logically follows for pursuing.

Statement: There was a spurt in criminal activities in the city during the recent festival season.

Courses of Action:

1. The police should immediately investigate into the causes of this increase.
2. In future the police should take adequate precaution to avoid recurrence of such situation during festival.
3. The known criminals should be arrested before any such season.

Statement: A large number of students who have passed their XII Std. terminal examination in the country could not get admission to colleges as the number of seats available are grossly inadequate.

Courses of Action:

1. The evaluation system of XII Std. terminal examination should be made more tough so that fewer students pass the examination.
2. The Government should encourage the private sector to open new colleges by providing them land at cheaper rate.
3. The rich people should be asked to send their wards to foreign countries for higher studies enabling the needy students to get admission in colleges within the country.

Statement: It has been reported by one of the TV channels that the answer papers of Board examination of one State are evaluated by students studying in the same standard with the help of model answers as instructed by the examiners.

Courses of Action:

1. All such examiners should be immediately suspended from their official positions.
2. All such papers evaluated by the students should be immediately confiscated and got evaluated by qualified teachers.
3. The Board should explore possibilities even though they are remote, of getting the answer papers of this examination evaluated by computerised machines.

Statement: The condition of all the major roads in the city has deteriorated due to incessant rain during the last two months.

Courses of Action:

1. The city civic authority should deploy additional traffic staff to regulate the vehicular movement.
2. The city civic authority should immediately make arrangements for repairs of the damaged roads.
3. Motorists should be alerted at various places by putting up sign boards about the bad patches of the roads to enable them to plan their journey accordingly.

Statement: The Institute has fixed for the investors a validity period of one year for transfer forms for some of its listed schemes.

Courses of Action:

1. The Institute should consult investors before fixing the duration of validity period.
2. The investors should be duly informed about the validity period.
3. List of schemes covered under this validity period should be communicated.

Statement: The vehicular traffic has increased so much in the recent past that it takes at least two hours to travel between the city and the airport during peak hours.

Courses of Action:

1. Non-airport bound vehicles should not be allowed to ply on the road connecting the city and the airport.
2. The load of vehicular traffic should be diverted through various link roads during peak hours.
3. The departure and arrival of flights should be regulated so as to .avoid congestion during peak hours.

Statement: There is a considerable increase in the number of persons affected by water-borne diseases during monsoon period.

Courses of Action:

1. The question should be raised in the Legislative Assembly.
2. The Government should disseminate adequate information regarding the pure drinking water to people.
3. All the hospitals in the city should be equipped properly for the treatment of patients during monsoon period.

Statement: Residents from Model Colony coming under North Ward of City X have complained to the Ward Officer that for last three days the tap water in the ward is contaminated and no action is being initiated by municipal staff.

Courses of Action:

1. The Ward Officer of North Ward should initiate action against residents who have lodged complaints against municipal staff.
2. The Ward Officer should ask his junior officer to visit Model Colony to assess the actual condition of water with his staff and to get samples of water tested from laboratories.
3. The Ward Officer should ask Ward Engineer to check water installations and pipelines in the Model Colony area.

Statement: People residing in some tribal areas are far from education.

Courses of Action:

Government should render all help to the NGOs to open schools there.
A mass awareness programme must be initiated in these areas.
Social workers should be entrusted with the job of educating them.

Statement: Large number of people have become critically ill after consuming spurious liquor from a local shop.

Courses of Action:

1. The Government should immediately close down all the shops selling liquor till the stocks are tested for presence of toxicity.
2. The owner of the liquor shop should be asked to leave the town and open a shop elsewhere.
3. The owner of the liquor shop should immediately be arrested and tried for criminal negligence.

Statement: Every year thousands of eligible students do not get admission in colleges both in urban and rural areas after passing their school leaving certificate examination.

Courses of Action:

1. More colleges should be set up in both urban and rural areas.
2. The number of schools in both urban and rural areas should be reduced.
3. More schools should offer vocational courses to equip students for taking up their vocation after completing their school education.

Statement: According to the officials, paucity of funds with the organisation has led to the pathetic condition of this brilliant architectural structure.

Courses of Action:

1. Anew architectural structure for the building should be designed.
2. The reasons for the poor condition of the structure should be found out.
3. Grant should be given to improve the condition of the structure.

Statement: There has been an unprecedented increase in use of malpractices by the students during various examinations held in the country this year.

Courses of Action:

1. All the concerned authorities conducting these examinations should immediately take effective measures to curb this menace.
2. All those students who are detected to have used unfair means should be debarred from appearing in any of these examinations for the next three years.
3. Using unfair means should immediately be made cognizable offence by passing necessary legislations.

Statement: In one of the worst accidents in railway level crossing, fifty people died when a bus carrying them collided on to a running train.

Courses of Action:

1. The train driver should immediately be suspended.
2. The driver of the bus should be tried in court for negligence on his part.
3. The railway authority should be asked to man all its level crossings.

Statement: A mass mortality of shrimps in ponds on entire Andhra coast has recently been reported due to the presence of a virus.

Courses of Action:

1. The water of the ponds affected should immediately be treated for identifying the nature of the virus.
2. The catching of shrimps from the ponds should temporarily be stopped.
3. The fishermen should be asked to watch for the onset of such phenomenon in nature.

Statement: Drinking water supply to New Bombay has been suspended till further orders from Maharashtra Pollution Control Board following pollution of Patalganga river, caused by discharge of effluents from some chemical industries.

Courses of Action:

The industries responsible for discharging effluents into the river should be asked to close down immediately.
The river water should immediately be treated chemically before resuming supply.
The Pollution Control Board should check the nature of effluents being discharged into the river by industries at regular intervals.

Statement: The day time temperatures in this summer have been four to five degree Celsius above the normal temperature across the country.

Courses of Action:

1. All the district headquarters should be alerted to send prompt reports of death due to heat waves in their jurisdiction.
2. The Government machinery should be put on high alert and provided with necessary equipments to prevent any untoward incident.
3. The Government should make necessary arrangements to provide drinking water in all the areas affected due to extreme heat waves.

Statement: The meteorological department has reported that a severe storm is likely to hit the city during the next forty-eight hours.

Courses of Action:

1. The administration should advise all the business and educational establishments to close down for two days.
2. The administration should not make the information public as it could create panic among the residents of the city.
3. The administration should activate its disaster management program to tackle any possible emergency situation.