Read the following passage and answer the question.
During the devastating earthquake of January 2001, Mansukhbhai incurred heavy loss and most of his goods were damaged. He distributed the leftover stock that was undamaged, to the quake affected masses of Kutch. This led to a photograph that was taken just after the earthquake and featured on the Sandesh Gujarati Daily in February 2001. It showed a broken water filter that was made by Mansukhbhai with a caption that said “The poor man’s broken fridge”. At that time, he met the Gujarat Grass-roots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN), Ahmedabad, which supported Mansukhbhai further in his endeavours. Finally after an arduous quest and several tests of soil and fridge designs, he emerged with the innovative Mitticool fridge in 2005. After that he has innovated various products using clay. The company has stuck to its policy of keeping all its products at a lower rate which will be affordable for the poor people. Their future plans include starting a factory with the aid of the National Innovation Foundation at IIM Ahmedabad and making a MittiCool house. It will be a green (eco-friendly) house with clay that will have no electricity but only renewable energy to maintain a comfortable temperature inside.
Mitticool plans to start a factory with the aid of the National Innovation Foundation. Arrange the following actions of its management in the order of the planning process:
A. Weighing the pros and cons of each possible site for the factory
B. Making assumptions about the future demand for clay products
C. Choosing the most suitable site for the factory
D. Setting a target for the number of clay products the factory should make in its first year
E. Listing the different places where the factory could be set up
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → D, B, E, A, C
(D) Setting a target for the number of clay products the factory should make in its first year — first. Setting objectives fixes the result the factory must reach.
(B) Making assumptions about the future demand for clay products — second. Assumptions about the future are premises.
(E) Listing the different places where the factory could be set up — third. This is identifying alternative courses of action.
(A) Weighing the pros and cons of each possible site for the factory — fourth. This is evaluating alternative courses.
(C) Choosing the most suitable site for the factory — fifth. This is selecting an alternative, the real point of decision making.
NCERT (2026-27 Edition): “Planning Process Setting objectives: Objectives may be set for the entire organisation and each department or unit within the organisation. |