General English And Business Communication -I

St. Joseph’s College of Commerce(AUTONOMOUS)
End Semester Examination – sept./oct. 2015

b.com – iii semester
C1 14 3 GE: GENERAL ENGLISH AND BUSINESS COMMUNICATION -I

Duration: 3 Hours                                                                                       Max. Marks: 100

Section – A

1. Answer the following questions in about 200 words each     (15×2=30)
2. “The government’s response and relief packages have generally been ineffective, misdirected and flawed.It has focused on credit and loan, rather than income, productivity and farmer prosperity which is not of people-centric planning.” Inspite of thousands of farmer suicides every day government is not serious nor is it taking any productive measures. Do you think government/politicians have taken the farmers lives for granted? Interpret the cartoon.
3. 
   What prompted Mohammad Yunus to come out of the confines of University and relate to the problems of common people? Write about other instances where the academic institutions and university can make meaningful contribution to society.

Section – B

1. Answer the following in about 250 words each (2X15=30)

“If there is a nuclear war, our foes will not be China or America or even each other. Our foe will be the earth herself. The very elements – the sky, the air, the land, the wind and water – will all turn against us. Their wrath will be terrible.

 

Our cities and forests, our fields and villages will burn for days. Rivers will turn to poison. The air will become fire. The wind will spread the flames. When everything there is to burn has burned and the fires die, smoke will rise and shut out the sun. The earth will be enveloped in darkness. There will be no day. Only interminable night. Temperatures will drop to far below freezing and nuclear winter will set in. Water will turn into toxic ice. Radioactive fallout will seep through the earth and contaminate groundwater. Most living things, animal and vegetable, fish and fowl, will die. Only rats and cockroaches will breed and multiply and compete with foraging, relict humans for what little food there is. What shall we do then, those of us who are still alive? Burned and blind and bald and ill, carrying the cancerous carcasses of our children in our arms, where shall we go? What shall we eat? What shall we drink? What shall we breathe?”

3. Question

Explain the idea of ‘Theory of Deterrence’? What is the author’s argument against the theory of deterrence? Do think Arundhati Roy’s fear about a nuclear holocaust is justified? Comment on the rat-race among nations to obtain nuclear technology.

Read the passage below and answer the question.

Medha Patkar launches satyagraha

MUMBAI, JULY 12. The Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar today announced an indefinite satyagraha near the State secretariat to highlight the Maharashtra Government’s neglect in resettling the families affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP).

A delegation of the NBA met the State Home Minister, R.R. Patil, who assured them that the issue of resettling hundreds of families would be completed in one-and-a-half months. However, Ms. Patkar and her supporters were not satisfied with this assurance.

She told reporters that 33 villages were affected by the SSP in Maharashtra and two-thirds of the affected families who were awaiting rehabilitation were not even declared as project-affected. Besides, the State Cabinet’s decision in January not to allow work on the dam unless rehabilitation was completed was not adhered to, she said.

The Maharashtra Government is not even certain how many people would be displaced by the SSP and so where is the question of deciding how much land is required to rehabilitate them, she asked. Even though people had been notified as project affected, their adult sons and daughters were not entitled to compensation, she said.

So far in the State, 1500 families had been resettled, though about 400 families were yet to receive land, Ms. Patkar said. About 3000 families await rehabilitation and of this, only 568 families were recognised as project-affected. The State did not take a tough stand on the question of rehabilitation and about 1500-2000 families would face submergence this monsoon, while the Gujarat Government celebrated raising the project’s height to 110 metres. Even though private land was available, the State did not buy it, she said.

Maharashtra had earlier opposed raising the height of the dam to 110.64 metres, according to the State relief and rehabilitation secretary, Krishna S. Vatsa. He told The Hindu that the SSP would displace 3400 families from 33 villages, according to initial estimates. So far, in Maharashtra, 2851 families had been resettled. Of this, 2075 families were resettled in Maharashtra and 776 families in Gujarat. “We expect that about 173 families who are declared as project-affected already, will be affected if the dam height goes up to 110.64 metres. However, a process of verification of claims is on and the figure of those affected at 110.64 metres could well go up to 600 families,” he said.

4. Question
5. a) The above article gives us a glimpse of the problems faced by the people because of construction of the dams. In this context ‘Satyagraha’ is used as one of the ways to wake up the government to take suitable measures. When the government itself acts in an irresponsible or criminal way what are the options available for people to get justice?

 

1. b) Comment on the title of Arundhati Roy’s essay ‘For Greater Common Good’. What is her central argument with regard to construction of dams and the resulting displacement? What is your response?

Section –C

5. Write short note on any  TWO of the following:                                             (2×5=10)
6. Importance of Communication
7. Types of Inter departmental Communication
8. Methods of preparation for an Interview
9. Elements of Communication
10. Draft letters for the following                                                                        (4×5=20)
11. Write a letter to the concerned authority to make a booking of the train tickets for an Industrial visit
12. Draft a memo regarding use of mobile phones at work place.
13. Draft a circular regarding filling up vacancies within the company
14. Write a complaint letter to the manufacturer regarding the defective pieces of mobile phones which you recently bought for your shop. Ask for the replacement or the refund of the amount for the damaged pieces.
15. For the silver Jubilee of your firm, you wish to present wall clocks to your staff, write to a manufacturer of clocks giving details of your requirements and ask him to gift-wrap each clock at no extra cost.
16. Draft a covering letter and your resume                                                   (10 marks)

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