Logical Reasoning Questions on Course of Action

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: Severe drought is reported to have set in several parts of the country.

Courses of Action:

Government should immediately make arrangement for providing financial assistance to those affected. Food, water and fodder should immediately be sent to all these areas to save the people and cattle.

Statement: Since its launching in 1881, Vayudoot has so far accumulated losses amounting to Rs 153 crore.

Courses of Action:

Vayudoot should be directed to reduce wasteful expenditure and to increase passenger fare. An amount of about Rs 300 crore should be provided to Vayudoot to make the airliner economically viable.

Statement: Exporters in the capital are alleging that commercial banks are violating a Reserve Bank of India directive to operate a post shipment export credit denominated in foreign currency at international rates from January this year.

Courses of Action:

The officers concerned in the commercial banks are to be suspended. The RBI 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:

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: Most of those who study in premier engineering colleges in India migrate to developed nations for better prospects in their professional pursuits.

Courses of Action:

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 India at least for ten years after they complete education. 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:

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

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

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

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

The company should make a proper study of rival products in the market. The price of the product should be reduced and quality improved.

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:

In an effort to attract talent, the Doordarshan has decided to revise its fee structure for the artists. 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:

Population education programme should be included in the college curriculum. 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:

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

Statement: The kharif crops have been affected by the insects for consecutive three years in the district and the farmers harvested less than fifty percent of produce during these years.

Courses of Action:

The farmers should seek measures to control the attack of insects to protect their crops next year. The Government should increase the support price of kharif crops considerably to protect the economic interests of farmers.

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:

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

Statement: 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:

Efforts should be made to effectively implement the Act. 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:

Curriculum should be reviewed and revised periodically. 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:

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

Statement: The Indian electronic component industry venturing into the West European markets faces tough competition from the Japanese.

Courses of Action:

India should search for other international markets for its products. India should improve the quality of the electronic components to compete with the Japanese in capturing these markets.

Statement: Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have agreed in principle to set up a joint control board for better control, management and productivity of several inter-state multipurpose projects.

Courses of Action:

Other neighbouring states should set up such control boards. The proposed control board should not be allowed to function as such joint boards are always ineffective.

Statement: The Government has decided not to provide financial support to voluntary organisations from next Five Year Plan and has communicated that all such organisations should raise funds to meet their financial needs.

Courses of Action:

Voluntary organisations should collaborate with foreign agencies. They should explore other sources of financial support.

Statement: The availability of imported fruits has increased in the indigenous market and so the demand for indigenous fruits has been decreased.

Courses of Action:

To help the indigenous producers of fruits, the Government should impose high import duty on these fruits, even if these are not of good quality. The fruit vendors should stop selling imported fruits. So that the demand for indigenous fruits would be increased.

Statement: There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of successful candidates in this year’s School Leaving Certificate Examination.

Courses of Action:

The government should make arrangements to increase number of seats of intermediate courses in existing colleges. The government should take active steps to open new colleges to accommodate all these successful candidates.

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:

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

Statement: It is necessary to adopt suitable measures to prevent repetition of bad debts by learning from the past experiences of mounting non-performing assets of banks.

Courses of Action:

Before granting loan to customers their eligibility for loan should be evaluated strictly. To ensure the payment of instalments of loan, the work, for which loan was granted, should be supervised minutely on regular basis.

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

Courses of Action:

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

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

Courses of Action:

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

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:

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

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:

The government should launch attractive employment generation schemes and encourage these graduates to opt for such schemes to use their expertise and knowledge effectively. 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:

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

Statement: Every year large number of devotees dies due to severe cold on their way to the shrine located at the top of the mountain range.

Courses of Action:

The devotees should be discouraged to visit the shrine without having proper warm clothes and other amenities. The government should provide warm clothes and shelter to all the devotees visiting the shrine.

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:

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

Statement: The Finance Minister submits his resignation a month before the new budget is to be presented in the Parliament.

Courses of Action:

The resignation should be accepted and another person should be appointed as the Finance Minister. The resignation should not be accepted.

Statement: A large number of people visiting India from country X have been tested positive for carrying viruses of a killer disease.

Courses of Action:

The government of India should immediately put a complete ban on people coming to India from country X including those Indians who are settled in country X. The government of India should immediately set up detection centres at all its airports and seaports to identify and quarantine those who are tested positive..

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

Courses of Action:

The election commission should cancel the entire election process as the votes cast are not adequate to represent people. 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:

The in-charges should be instructed to supervise the field-work regularly. 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:

The ‘P’ State Government should purchase and store sufficient quantity of onion in advance to control prices. 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:

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

Statement: The Secretary lamented that the electronic media was losing its credibility and that it should try to regain it by establishing better communications with the listeners and the viewers. He also emphasised the need for training to improve the functioning.

Courses of Action:

Efforts should be made to get organised feed back on the programme. The critical areas in which the staff requires training should be identified.

Statement: Courts take too long in deciding important disputes of various departments.

Courses of Action:

Courts should be ordered to speed up matters. Special powers should be granted to officers to settle disputes concerning their department.

Statement: Certain mining industries in Gujarat may come to a standstill because of the notification issued by the Department of Environment and Forest banning mining operations and industries alike within 25 kms of National Park, the game sanctuary and reserve forest areas.

Courses of Action:

The Department should be asked to immediately withdraw the notification. The Government should make effort to shift the parks, sanctuaries and reserve forests to other non-mining areas.

Statement: There have been many instances of derailment of trains due to landslide in the hilly areas which caused loss of many lives.

Courses of Action:

The railway authority should arrange to deploy pilot engines before the movement of passenger trains in the hilly areas to alert the trains in case of any landslide. The railway authority should strengthen the hill slopes by putting iron meshes so that the loose boulders do not fall on the track.

Statement: India today is midstream in its demographic transaction. In the last 60 years there has been an almost continuous decline in mortality; while fertility has declined over the last 20 years. The consequence is that there has been a rapid growth in population over the last 50 years.

Courses of Action:

India should immediately revitalise its family planning programme. The Government should immediately launch a massive education programme through mass media highlighting the implication of population growth at the present rate.

Statement: Footpaths of a busy road are crowded with vendors selling cheap items.

Courses of Action:

The help of police should be sought to drive them away. Some space should be provided to them where they can earn their bread without blocking footpaths.

Statement: Some serious blunders were detected in the Accounts section of a factory.

Courses of Action:

An efficient team of auditors should be appointed to check the Accounts. A show cause notice should be issued to all the employees involved in the irregularity.

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:

All the information available to the libraries should be computerised to provide faster services to the users. 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:

All the professionals should be advised to refrain from taking up such jobs. 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:

The railways should immediately reduce the fare structure of the upper classes substantially to retain its passengers. 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:

The local administration should advise the fishermen not to go to dangerous area in the sea. 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:

The government machinery should make an all out effort to nab those who are responsible and put them behind bars. 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:

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

Statement: A large number of students have been caught using unfair means during the final-year degree examination.

Courses of Action:

All these students should be debarred permanently from appearing for any examination conducted by the authority. The guardians of these students should be called by the authority to inform them that any such behaviour in future will not be tolerated.

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

Courses of Action:

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

Statement: The employees union of the Municipal Corporation has decided to strike work for indefinite period in protest against the management’s refusal to grant bonus.

Courses of Action:

The government should immediately pay ex-gratia grant to the Municipal Corporation to grant bonus to its employees. The striking employees should be persuaded to defer the strike notice.

Statement: The killer entric fever has so far claimed 100 lives in some tribal villages in M.P. during the past three weeks.

Courses of Action:

The residents of these villages should immediately be shifted to a non-infected area. The Government should immediately send a medical squad to this area to restrict spread of the killer disease.

Statement: There is a substantial increase in the number of accidents causing deaths and severe injuries due to malfunctioning of the traffic signals.

Courses of Action:

The traffic police should immediately post traffic personnel at the junctions. The signal system should immediately be repaired or replaced.

Statement: India’s performance in the recent Olympic Games was very poor. Not even a single medal could be bagged by the players. Government has spent Rs. 5 crores in training and deputing a team of players to participate in the Olympic Games.

Courses of Action:

India should stop sending players to the future Olympic Games. Government should immediately set up an enquiry commission to find out the reason for India’s dismal performance.

Statement: Three persons were caught with huge arms and ammunition in the city.

Courses of Action:

Police should be instructed for night patrolling. The three persons should be set free and their movements should be carefully watched to nab the other criminals.

Statement: The weather bureau has through a recent bulletin forecast heavy rainfall during the next week which may cause water logging in several parts of the city.

Courses of Action:

The bulletin should be given wide publicity through the mass media. The civic authority should keep in readiness the pumping system for removal of water from these parts. The people should be advised to stay indoors during the period.

Statement: A train derailed near a station while moving over a bridge and fell into a river, resulting in the death of 65 people.

Courses of Action:

The Railway Authorities should clarify the reason of the accident to the Government. The Government should allocate funds to compensate the destruction caused. The protection walls of the bridge should be made strong enough to avoid such accidents.

Statement: Poverty is increasing because the people, who are deciding how to tackle it, know absolutely nothing about the poor.

Courses of Action:

The decision makers should go to the grass root levels. The decision makers should come from the poorer sections of the society. A new set of decision makers should replace the existing one.

Statement: Besides looks and appearances, it is also important to develop oneself from within.

Courses of Action:

One should not pay attention to fashion. One should pay attention to fashion. Books on self-development should be encouraged.

Statement: There is an unprecedented increase in the production of wheat this kharif season in most parts of the country.

Courses of Action:

The government should immediately lower down the procurement price of wheat. The farmers should be asked to store the excess produces with themselves to be used for future. The government should make its best efforts to export wheat to augment its presence in international market.

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:

The government should immediately launch a programme to create awareness among the farmers about the value of education. The government should offer incentives to those farmers whose children remain in schools. Education should be made compulsory for all children up to the age of 14 and their employment banned.

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:

The mill should be closed down. The workers should be asked to cooperate with the owners. The owners should be asked to cooperate with the employees.

Statement: The air and rail services have been severely disrupted due to thick fog in the northern part of the country.

Courses of Action:

The rail and air services should be temporarily suspended in the region. People should be advised to make their travel plan keeping in mind the probable disruption resulting in delay or cancellation of services. The government should immediately install modern machines which will enable it to guide the rail and air services even if the thick fog develops.

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:

People of hill area should be shifted to other safer places. State Government should ask more financial support from Central Government. Government should levy relief tax to the corporate sector to ease the additional burden.

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:

All the factories in the city should immediately be closed down. The automobiles should not be allowed to ply on the road for more than four hours a day. The Government should restrict the issue of fresh licences to factories and automobiles.

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:

If a student is ousted from a college, the information should be sent to all the other colleges of the University The admissions to all the colleges of the University should be handled by the University directly. A separate section should be made for taking strict action against students indulging in anti-social activities.

Statement: Over 27,000 bonded labourers identified and freed are still awaiting rehabilitation.

Courses of Action:

More cases of bonded labourers should be identified. Till the proper rehabilitation facilities are available, the bonded labourers should not be freed. The impediments in the way of speedy and proper rehabilitation of bonded labourers should be removed.

Statement: Number of dropouts from the municipal schools has significantly increased after withdrawal of mid-day meal scheme.

Courses of Action:

The government should reconsider its decision of withdrawal of midday meal scheme. The government should close down some of the municipal schools. The government should carry out a detailed study to find out the reasons for school dropouts.

Statement: There has been unprecedented increase in the prices of essential commodities during the past few days due to the strike call given by the transporters association.

Courses of Action:

The transporters’ association should be ordered by the government to immediately withdraw strike call or else they will face severe consequences. The government should immediately make alternative arrangements to ensure adequate supply of essential commodities in the market. The government should immediately declare the strike illegal and put all those responsible for the strike behind the bars.

Statement: A large number of students studying in municipal schools could not pass the Xth Std. Board examination causing frustration among the students and their parents.

Courses of Action:

The Municipal authority should immediately review the position and initiate measures to improve the situation. The municipal authority should immediately fill up the teachers’ vacancies in the municipal schools. The municipal authority should close down some of their schools and concentrate their attention on remaining schools to improve the conditions.

Statement: Incessant rain for the past several days has posed the problem of overflowing and flood as the river bed is full of silt and mud.

Courses of Action:

The people residing near the river should be shifted to a safe place. The people should be made aware about the imminent danger over radio/television. The silt and mud from the river bed should be cleared immediately after the receding of the water level.

Statement: Some strains of mosquito have become resistant to chloroquine – the widely used medicine for malaria patients.

Courses of Action:

Selling of chloroquine should be stopped. Researchers should develop a new medicine for patients affected by such mosquitoes. All the patients suffering from malaria should be checked for identification of causal mosquito.

Statement: Many private sector banks have reduced interest rate on housing loans in comparison to public sector banks.

Courses of Action:

The case should be raised before the regulatory authority for investigation by the public sector banks as they cannot follow such reduction. Public sector banks must adopt such policy to remain in competition. The public sector banks should advertise their special feature repeatedly so that they do not lose their future customers.

Statement: The Deputy Mayor of city Z has proposed to install a plant of mineral water and to supply citizen’s mineral water bottles at Rs. 6 per litre as against Rs. 10 per litre being sold by local private companies.

Courses of Action:

The local private companies of city Z will have to close their operation. The Corporation of city Z will have to provide for losses in this project in its budget. The tap water schemes of city Z will have to be stopped.

Statement: The meteorological department has issued a notification forecasting less rainfall during next year’s monsoon.

Courses of Action:

The government should immediately set up a water authority for proper management of water resources. The water supply authorities should be asked to implement reduction in regular water supply to tackle the situation. The farmers should be advised to cultivate alternate crops which require less water during the coming months.