69001. Statements: The literacy rate in the district has been increasing for the last four years. The district administration has conducted extensive training programme for the workers involved in the literacy drive.
69002. Statements: The school authority has asked the X Std. students to attend special classes to be conducted on Sundays. The parents of the X Std. students have withdrawn their wards from attending private tuitions conducted on Sundays.
69003. Statements: The Government has imported large quantities of sugar as per trade agreement with other countries. The prices of sugar in the domestic market have fallen sharply in the recent months.
69004. Statements: There is sharp decline in the production of oil seeds this year. The Government has decided to increase the import quantum of edible oil.
69005. Statements: The private medical colleges have increased the tuition fees in the current year by 200 per cent over the last year's fees to meet the expenses. The Government medical colleges have not increased their fees in spite of price escalation.
69006. Statements: Large number of people living in the low-lying areas has been evacuated during the last few days to safer places. The Government has rushed in relief supplies to the people living in the affected areas.
69007. Statements: It is the aim of the city's civic authority to get the air pollution reduced by 20% in the next two months. The number of asthma cases in the city is constantly increasing.
69008. Statements: The local co-operative credit society has decided to stop giving loans to farmers with immediate effect. A large number of credit society members have withdrawn major part of their deposits from the credit society.
69009. Statements: The employees of the biggest bank in the country have given an indefinite strike call starting from third of the next month. The employees of the Central Government have withdrawn their week long demonstrations.
69010. Statements: Police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the unlawful gathering of large number of people. The citizens' forum called a general strike in protest against the police atrocities.
69011. Statements: Majority of the citizens in the locality belongs to higher income group. The sales in the local super market are comparatively much higher than in other localities.
69012. Statements: The life today is too fast, demanding and full of variety in all aspects which at times leads to stressful situations. Number of suicide cases among teenagers is on increase.
69013. Statements: The government has decided to make all the information related to primary education available to the general public. In the past, the general public did not have access to all these information related to primary education.
69014. Statements: The farmers have decided against selling their kharif crops to the Government agencies. The Government has reduced the procurement price of kharif crops starting from last month to the next six months.
69015. Statements: The performance of most of the students in final exam of class X in the schools run by the Government was excellent. Many teachers of the Government schools left the school and joined private schools.
69016. Statements: There is considerable reduction in the number of people affected by water-borne diseases in City A during this rainy season. The government has opened four new civil hospitals in City A in the beginning of the year.
69017. Statements: The prices of vegetables have been increased considerably during this summer. There is tremendous increase in the temperature during this summer thereby damaging crops greatly.
69018. Statements: There has been a high increase in the incidents of atrocities against women in the city during the past few months. The police authority has been unable to nab the culprits who are committing crime against women.
69019. Statements: Rural and semi-urban areas in the country have been suffering due to load shedding for quite some time. If the Government is not able to overcome the power crisis, load shedding will be extended even to the urban areas.
69020. Statements: The university authority has instructed all the colleges under its jurisdiction to ban use of all phones inside the college premises. Majority of the teachers of the colleges signed a joint petition to the university complaining the disturbances caused by cell phone ring-tones inside the classrooms.
69021. Statements: Most of the steel producing companies in the country have made considerable profit during the last financial year. Many Asian countries have been importing huge quantities of steel from India.
69022. Statements: There is increase in water level of all the water tanks supplying drinking water to the city during the last fortnight. Most of the trains were cancelled last week due to water-logging on the tracks.
69023. Statements: The prices of petrol and diesel in the domestic market have remained unchanged for the past few months. The crude oil prices in the international market have gone up substantially in the last few months.
69024. Statements: The government has recently fixed the fees for professional courses offered by the unaided institutions which are much lower than the fees charged last year. The parents of the aspiring students launched a severe agitation last year protesting against the high fees charged by the unaided institutions.
69025. Statements: The Reserve Bank of India has recently put restrictions on few small banks in the country. The small banks in the private and co-operative sector in India are not in a position to withstand the competitions of the bigger in the public sector.
69026. Statements: All the schools in the area had to be kept closed for most part of the week. Many parents have withdrawn their children from the local schools.
69027. Statements: India has surpassed the value of tea exports this year over all the earlier years due to an increase in demand for quality tea in the European market. There is an increase in demand of coffee in the domestic market during the last two years.
69028. Paternity leave admissible to a govt.servant not allowed to combined with:
69029. When a Govt.servant on transfer performs his journey with family in a convenyance provided by the Govt.free of cost,TA admissible?
69030. When an officer is entitled to free pass for the railway journey,mileage allowance admissible to for an official journey
69031. An officer is deputed to undergo a course of training for a period of six months,200 KM away from his headquarters.Travelling allowance admissible to the officer during the training:
69032. Travelling allowance is not admissible for journey undertaken:
69033. 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.
69034. 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.
69035. 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.
69036. 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
69037. 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.
69038. 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.
69039. 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.
69040. 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.
69041. 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
69042. 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.
69043. 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.
69044. 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.
69045. 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.
69046. 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.
69047. 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.
69048. 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.
69049. 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.
69050. 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.