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Direction: Read the following case and answer the questions that follow
Students of Kailash College will have to board the regular Metropolitan Transport Corporation and State Road Transport Corporation buses from the next academic year. The College's Syndicate, at its meeting earlier this week, decided to stop providing students with the transport facility from the coming academic year citing financial losses. Kailash College has a contract arrangement with the Metropolitan Transport Corporation to provide bus facilities to students.
Calling it an "under-utilised service", Vice-Chancellor Ramkumar Menon, during a press conference after the Syndicate meeting, said the college would save over a crore every year once the transport facility was withdrawn. "We are spending around Rs. 98 lakhs on providing buses on 18 routes. But we collect less than Rs. 10 lakhs" he claimed.
However, for the present academic year, the varsity will continue the service, albeit on fewer routes.
The Vice-Chancellor has been requested to restore the transport services by the Higher Education Ministers. If this is the case, how should the Vice-Chancellor go about trying to reduce the large losses?
  • a)
    Combine multiple neighbouring routes into a single route.
  • b)
    Ask all students to pay a compulsory "conveyance" fee every year.
  • c)
    Request Higher Education Ministers to fund the loss accrued in providing transport facilities.
  • d)
    Increase the fare for existing students using the bus.
Correct answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?
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Option B is a vague option as the case already mentions that a fee is being collected
Option C does not make too much sense as the Higher Education minister is not responsible for reducing the losses at Kailash college. He is probably only requesting the Vice Chancellor to restore services so that students are not inconvenienced
Option D This is not the best solution. Since the college needs more than 10x increase in fees to recover the costs, this is not a viable option as a small increase does not serve their purpose and if the college increases the fare drastically, even the existing students may not use the services
Option A provides an option that likely is the most effective. By combining multiple routes, the college can significantly reduce costs.
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