Course Of Action

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.

A:

Only I follows

B:

Only II follows

C:

Either I or II follows

D:

Neither I nor II follows

Answer: E

Clearly, the library needs to be provided with the essential facilities and trained personnel for better services. So, both the courses follow.

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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.

A:

Only I follows

B:

Only II follows

C:

Either I or II follows

D:

Neither I nor II follows

Answer: E

Clearly, the situation demands that the faults in Accounts be properly worked out and the persons involved be interrogated about the matter. So, both the courses follow.

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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.

A:

Only I follows

B:

Only II follows

C:

Either I or II follows

D:

Neither I nor II follows

Answer: E

Crowding on footpaths is a great inconvenience for walkers. So, stern action needs to be taken to remove the vendors. But at the same time these people ought to be provided alternative means of livelihood. So, both the courses follow.

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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.

A:

Only I follows

B:

Only II follows

C:

Either I or II follows

D:

Neither I nor II follows

Answer: E

Clearly, to face the problem of the ever-growing population, an effective family planning programme, for the people to have small families, is a must. Education shall further stress the advantages of having lesser number of children and the disasters of the fast growth in population. Thus, both the courses follow.

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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.

A:

Only I follows

B:

Only II follows

C:

Either I or II follows

D:

Neither I nor II follows

Answer: C

Clearly, either something should be done to alert the trains well in advance in case of a landslide or some means should be adopted to prevent blockage of tracks during landslides. Thus, either I or II follows.

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