Social Justice
Q1. Equipping women with employable skills is a far greater challenge than skilling men. Comment. 10M
Q2. Access to a more equitable healthcare system has long remained a major challenge in India. Do you think technology can provide a viable solution? Analyze the scope of the AyushmanBharathDigital Mission in this regard. 15M
Ethics
Q3. What does the quotation mean to you? “Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.”10M
Case study – 20M
Q4. A young graduate from a poor financial background gets a job in a promising startup. Her job is to make telesales pitch for attracting new customers and get them to buy various products. She is happy with the job and is punctual. She has often heard that the company is quick to promote hard-working employees and on each promotion the company provides a bonus and doubles the salary. She works hard for three months and has been extremely loyal to the company. The senior executives are happy with her performance.
She has been offereda promotion on the condition that she should not leave the job for 2 years and submit her original documents to the company. She happily agreed. Upon promotion, she found out that the company is actually a scam call centre and that telemarketing is just a sham. In her new role, she is required to call various people in India and abroad and bait them into the scam. Even though she has marketed certain products with false claims before, those were basic low-cost products and she is not ready to scam people of lakhs of rupees. She is reluctant to work. Her new colleagues, try to brush off her dilemmas pointing out that they just have to lure the people and actual scams are done by other departments, there’s easy money and one can actually earn a lot. She tries to quit, but she can’t for two years as her documents have been with the company and her senior warns her of the dangerous consequences if she reveals anything about the company to anyone outside.
Given the situation
- Identify the ethical issues involved in online scams.
- What options are available to the young graduate in this situation.
- State the importance of moral education in the present world.
