You have been made responsible to hire boats at a short notice to be used for an area under flood. On seeing the price mentioned by the boat owners you found that the lowest price was approximately three times more than the approved rate of the Government. You would

reject the proposal and call for a fresh price

refer the matter to the Government and wait

threaten the boat owners about a possible cancellation of the licence

You are an officer-in-charge for providing basic medical facilities to the survivors of an earthquake affected area. Despite your best possible effort, people put allegations against you for making money out of the funds given for relief. You would

let an enquiry be set up to look into the matter

ask your senior to appoint some other person in your place

not pay attention to allegations

stop undertaking any initiative till the matter is resolved

A multi-storey cold storage building located in the industrial area of a district has caught fire. This is a major fire accident where in the building has collapsed due to excessive heat. Local fire department on enquiry came to learn that the owner of the building had not obtained ‘no objection certificate’ from the fire department to ensure that the building had all the fire safety measures. Now, what should the fire department do to avoid any such fire incident in future?

Order all the district fire officers to probe how many cold storage buildings have obtained the NOCs from the fire department and order the owners to mandatorily obtain the same

Make a team of fire officers to visit all the cold storages in the district and check the fire safety measures that building is equipped with

Cancel the licenses to run the cold storage, if the building owners do not possess the NOC

Earthquakes are one of the most fearful natural disasters. Most of the times, it is impossible to predict or even give the people instructions for their safety after the occurrence of the quake. Hence, it is essential to be prepared to deal with this unforeseen disaster. As a measure of preparedness what precautionary measure would you think are better practices.

Review of existing seismic zoning maps and risk maps, review of seismic codes and norms of constructions

Training of personnel, engineers, architects, builders and masons

Inculcate knowledge amongst the school children on do’s and don’ts during the earthquake along with mock drills on safety measures

All the companies big or small in the city are contributing to the fund that was raised by the government for the relief measures that are undertaken to rescue the people hit by the tsunami recently. Your company though not small, has been facing minor loss for a few months. You are the CEO of the company what will you do now?

You will not make any contribution to the relief fund that was raised by the government

You will ask your employees to make some contribution

You will contribute your own one day salary to the relief fund and also infrom the employees that their one day salary will be given to the relief fund

Leave it to the employees whether to contribute or not to the fund

There was a massive flood in Northern India, where one of the states was severely hit. Government with the help of NGOs and military is making efforts to bring the situation under control, but continuous rain is disrupting the relief activities. What would be the immediate and best of the following measures for this situation in your opinion?

Evacuation of people, recovery of dead bodies and their proper disposal

Making temporary shelters like tents, tin sheds, etc. and supplying food and drinking water

Train volunteers and NGOs to strengthen their capabilities

You are the officer incharge of a village administering distribution of vaccine in an isolated epidemic hit village and you are left with only one vaccine. There is a requirement of that vaccine from the Gram Pradhan and also a poor villager. You are being pressurised by the Gram Pradhan to issue the vaccine to him. You would

initiate the procedure to expedite the next supply without issuing the vaccine to either

arrange vaccine for the poor villager from the distributor of another area

ask both to approach a doctor and get an input about the urgency

arrange vaccine for the Gram Pradhan from the distributor of another area

You are the District Magistrate of a District two foreign tourists are kidnapped by naxalites. They are demanding of the tourists. The government is putting pressure on you to find the tourists as soon as possible. What will you do?

You will arrange a meeting with the police officers of the district and make a plan to search the tourists.

Try to talk to naxalites and request them to free the tourists as it is related to your job and it is a question of national prestige.

Try for patch-up between government and naxalites.

You will recommend the government to go for commando assault in order to free the tourists.

A survey on forest fires and its extent shows that the area affected increased from 10 to 20 hactares in 10 years. Some of the reserved forests were more affected than the others. Villages adjoining the reserved forests were also badly affected by the forest fires. Settlements were unable to be reached deep inside the forest and make the people aware of the forest fires and its dreadful effects. It has become crucial to make the villagers know the havoc that forest fires can cause. As the Range Officer of the forest what steps would you take to make people aware of it?

Select the villages to campaign against forest fires, campaign to enlighten the villagers through pamphlets and posters, marches with loudspeakers, placards and local cable TV network

Arrange for public meetings in the centre of the village and encourage villagers to speak extempore about forest fires and at the same time announce about the stiff penalties to be imposed on those, who deliberately cause forest fires

Fulfill all the demands of the villagers, so that they may stop setting the forests on fire

In a nearby forest of your district, a wide range of flora and fauna is destroyed every year. The main reason for the destruction of the valuable forest resources is forest fire. The forest fire is not caused naturally, but is man made. People are not aware of the ecosystem and effects of its destruction. You are a responsible citizen and also aware of the consequences of degrading biodiversity. You will

ask the people to stop setting forest on fire and tell them that it destroys flora and fauna

take the help of NGO, which works for nature and ecology to make the people aware of the effects of destroying plants and animals

you know that people do not listen to you as you are not in an authoritative position, so do not tell the people anything

you alone start spreading awareness among the people

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