1. It is argued that right to employment is a fundamental right and, if a State fails to engage its educated and productive manpower in some worthwhile income generating mode, it may be deemed as a case of violation of human rights.
· Argue for and against this view.

The argument that right to employment is a fundamental right is well founded because the educated are the ones who keep the nation growing. So their employment is the responsibility of the State. However, opinions differ when we take it as a violation of rights if the state fails in it.

2. Promoting and protecting the health of women is of greater importance in terms of social welfare not only for the health of present generation but also for all the generations to come.
· Substantiate this argument with evidence to support it.
· How can we promote and protect the health of women?

Social welfare involves several factors, and most important one among them is the health status of people. In this respect, ensuring women’s health is more important than anything else. This is for today and for tomorrow, too. Of course, there are ways to achieve this goal.

3. While conventional games were physically, socially and intellectually charging, new generation games are found to be the other way round; making participants passive and enervating.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?

Games of olden times had many dimensions; social, physical and so on. Such games, naturally, fostered many faculties in several different ways. However, what we have today in the name of games, to a greater extent, are not so involving as to make the participants any better.

4. Many people feel that development is likely to erode the cultural values of a place no matter where the development takes place.
· How far do you agree or disagree with this?
· Prove your points with examples taken from your life or surroundings.

Since change is natural and development is but change, the possibility for change in cultural values too is possible in today’s fast paced world. It is true to a great extent that, irrespective of place and time, development changes values.

5. Many people feel that development is likely to erode the cultural values of a place no matter where the development takes place.
· How far do you agree or disagree with this?
· Prove your points with examples taken from your life or surroundings.

Since change is natural and development is but change, the possibility for change in cultural values too is possible in today’s fast paced world. It is true to a great extent that, irrespective of place and time, development changes values.

6. Better teacher-student understanding and student-friendly academic ambience will be able to remove corporal punishment from schools for ever.
How far do you agree or disagree with this?

There is saying: “spare the rode and spoil the child”. But studies show that sparing the rod may save a child, not spoil one. Since this finding goes exactly in line with the idea that teacher-student-friendly academic milieu will spare the rod for ever, I for one stand for such a student-friendly school.

7. Tourism is a platform on which distance and diversity work as instruments that promotes unity and understanding among people - irrespective of their being what they are and where they are from.
· How far are you going to endorse this statement?

Tourism has always been a strong force that has promoted cooperation and understanding among the populace for ages. What ever is the tourism a place promotes, the force behind it has always been distance and diversity. This is what is going on today too. That is what I feel.

8. Starting up a career much earlier is taken by some as highly advantageous, whereas there are others who take it the other way round.

· How advantageous or disadvantageous is it in your opinion?

In these times of career opportunities, it is rather easy to say that early career is better. However, this write up makes an attempt to find out what all advantages and disadvantages early career selection offers people today.

9. High-rise buildings are springing up like mushrooms even in semi-urban areas of developing nations, and this spurt in real estate sector can be attributed to many factors
What do you think are the factors that lead to this trend?
· What impacts does it have on the environment?

It is true that there is a spurt in infrastructure development, especially in real estate, and it can be seen everywhere in developing nations. This boom can be attributed to many factors, and the same has far reaching impacts on the environment.

10 Many celebrities, like film-stars and sports icons, are found to be endorsing consumer products and services, both harmful and useful, marketed by multinational companies. This tendency promotes unhealthy shopping practices.
How far is it justifiable that celebrities go for paid endorsements?
What are the impacts of the resultant unhealthy shopping practices?
Marketing organizations adopt many tricks to promote their sales. One such trick is celebrity endorsement. This is very common now. But it is really hard to justify them go for paid endorsements. It creates unhealthy shopping tendencies, and the same will lead to many consequences.

11. Though aqua-tourism prospects are widely being exploited world over, it is a fact that this tourism is doing much more harm than good to the people and ecology. So it needs to be discouraged.

· How far do you agree or disagree with this?
It is a fact that aqua tourism, as a tourism genre, is doing great harm to people and ecology since it operates on water. So the need for discouraging it is important, but we cannot simply ignore its potential though.

12. There is an argument that, since every child is unique with different talents and interests, making all children follow a uniform courseware in school is to be discouraged.

Argue for and against this.
Giving right education to the young is a complex affair. When it comes to individual talents and tastes, this becomes more complex. So it is natural that there are differing views about the feasibility of following a uniform syllabus for all students.