Logical Reasoning :: Course of Action
In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered I, II and III. 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.
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Statement: The exodus from villages to cities is detrimental to both.
Courses of Action:
- Rural postings must be made mandatory.
- There should be fewer trains linking cities to smaller places.
- Employment generation scheme should be launched in rural areas.
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Statement: Major part of the rabi crop in the district is damaged due to unseasonal heavy rains during the last few days.
Courses of Action:
- The government should grant relief to the affected farmers to compensate their loss.
- The government should provide free seed and fertilizer to the farmers for the kharif season.
- The government should waive all the loans taken for the rabi crop by the affected farmers.
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Statement: Large number of people have become critically ill after consuming spurious liquor from a local shop.
Courses of Action:
- I. The Government should immediately close down all the shops selling liquor till the stocks are tested for presence of toxicity.
- II. The owner of the liquor shop should be asked to leave the town and open a shop elsewhere.
- III. The owner of the liquor shop should immediately be arrested and tried for criminal negligence.
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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:
- More colleges should be set up in both urban and rural areas.
- The number of schools in both urban and rural areas should be reduced.
- More schools should offer vocational courses to equip students for taking up their vocation after completing their school education.
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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:
- Anew architectural structure for the building should be designed.
- The reasons for the poor condition of the structure should be found out.
- Grant should be given to improve the condition of the structure.
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Statement: Nuclear power cannot make a country secure.
Courses of Action:
- We must stop further expenses on increasing our nuclear power.
- We must destroy our nuclear capability.
- We must concentrate on improving our diplomatic relations.
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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:
- All the concerned authorities conducting these examinations should immediately take effective measures to curb this menace.
- 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.
- Using unfair means should immediately be made cognizable offence by passing necessary legislations.
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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:
- The train driver should immediately be suspended.
- The driver of the bus should be tried in court for negligence on his part.
- The railway authority should be asked to man all its level crossings.
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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:
- The water of the ponds affected should immediately be treated for identifying the nature of the virus.
- The catching of shrimps from the ponds should temporarily be stopped.
- The fishermen should be asked to watch for the onset of such phenomenon in nature.
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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.
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