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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
It is a national shame that even several decades after independence, the country has not been able to free itself from the problem of hunger and malnutrition that endangers the life and health of the population, especially that of children, women, and vulnerable groups. The global hunger index (GHI) published this year has used four indicators—namely undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting, and child mortality—in order to assess the performance of countries in terms of reducing the problem of hunger. This index places India as one among the countries that experience “serious” levels of hunger.
Achieving the goal of Zero Hunger by 2030, which is one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, would not only require innovative and sustained government strategies, especially with regard to interventional programmes and policies, but also a firm resolve to deliver the desired results. The GHI measures and maps hunger across countries in order to ensure that this goal is realised. In India, notwithstanding the enactment of the National Food Security Act, 2013 and the build-up of foodgrain stocks over the years, the report reveals that debilitating hunger continues to persist, imperiling the basic right to adequate and sufficient food. This, at a time when some of the neighbouring South Asian countries have fared much better.
The report states that India’s GHI indicator values, because of its large population, have an outsized impact on the indicator values for the region. According to it, in India, only 9.6% of all children between the ages of six and 23 months are fed a minimum acceptable diet. Further, the child wasting rate or the share of children under the age of five who have low weight for height, an indicator of acute undernutrition, is at 20.8%, the highest of any country included in the report for which data was available. The child stunting rate or the share of children under the age of five who have low height for their age, which indicates chronic undernutrition, is also very high. But, the GHI has been critiqued owing to the fact that comparison of rankings from one year to another cannot be done with respect to GHI scores and indicator values. Besides revisions of data and methodology, different countries have been included every year in the report.
However, there is no escaping the fact that the persistence of high levels of malnutrition continues to endanger the lives of children in India and this is further reinforced by the findings of another report, State of the World’s Children, by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). This report assessed the state of health of children, specifically malnutrition, anaemia, and obesity among other health problems, to find that diets lacking adequate nutrition were the leading cause of death across the world.
The reasons for poor nutrition are on account of multiple factors, which show significant interstate and intrastate disparities. These include the prevalence of poverty, inadequate availability of food grains and pulses, the absence of vital nutrients in the diet, ineffective public distribution mechanisms and unequal distribution, the relative status of women within the household, lack of access to clean water and poor sanitation, as well as genetic and environmental causes. While there has been a lack of concerted political will on the part of successive governments and the existing systems and policies have been unable to effectively deliver results, the current predicament has been due to the combination of both these factors.
The existing policies include the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, a conditional cash transfer scheme for pregnant and lactating mothers, and the Poshan Abhiyan and the National Nutrition Mission, envisioned to make India free from malnutrition by 2022 by ensuring drastic reduction in stunting and undernutrition. However, given the rate of progress in the reduction of malnutrition levels, it remains doubtful whether this target can be met, according to a recent research paper. Is it not an irony, then, that India has been unable to eradicate hunger and severe acute malnutrition despite it being one of the fastest wealth creators in the world in recent times as per the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report? The governments, therefore, must accord the highest priority to guarantee sufficient food and nutrition to the population by making adequate investments for the provisioning of nutritional interventions to ensure survival and human development to its rightful potential.
Q1. What is the public mortification, according to the passage?
A. That even after independence, adequate food upholds the life of the population.
B. That India is not beyond the clutches of starvation and malnourishment.
C. That children, women and unshielded groups are prone to famishment.
1. Only A
2. Only B
3. Only C
4. Both A and C
5. Both B and C
Q2. Which of the following factors is/are TRUE in the context of insufficient sustenance?
(1) Poverty spreads to a larger degree in countries.
(2) The mandatory nutrients are easily available in our diet.
(3)The Public Distribution mechanism is producing the desired effect.
(4) Both (1) and (3)
(5) None of the above.
Q3. Which of the following policies is not in existence at the current time, according to the passage?
1. A cash transfer scheme for mothers
2. The Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan
3. The Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
4. The National Nutrition Mission
5. The Poshan Abhiyan Yojana
Q4. Which of the following standards was/were applied to evaluate the conduct of the countries, as mentioned in the passage?
(A) The level of food security in the countries.
(B) The status of development of a child.
(C)The causes of mortality among children.
(1) Only A
(2) Only B
(3) Only C
(4) Both A and B
(5) All of the above
Q5. Which of the following statements is/are NOT TRUE in the context of the passage?
(A) In India, the child stunting rate is at the highest of all the countries.
(B) Children between the ages of six and twelve months are given the proper diet.
(C) India has been incompetent to get rid of starvation and severe malfunctioning.
(1) Only A
(2) Only B
(3) Only C
(4) Both A and B
(5) Both B and C
REARRANGEMENT (5Q)
Directions (6-10): In the following question, the first sentence is fixed at its respective position. Rearrange the other sentences (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
(A) Organic food products are either grown under
(B) For the environment and for human health as well
(C) From organically produced raw materials. Farming techniques
(D) Of chemical fertilizers or they are processed
(E) Used to grow organic foods are much cleaner and safer
(F) A natural system of agriculture without the use
Q6.Which of the following would be the FOURTH sentence after the rearrangement?
01. D
02. C
03. F
04. E
05. B
Q7.Which of the following would be the SECOND sentence after the rearrangement?
01. F
02. D
03. E
04. C
05. B
Q8. Which of the following would be the FIFTH sentence after the rearrangement?
01. E
02. F
03. C
04. B
05. D
Q9. Which of the following would be the LAST sentence after the rearrangement?
01. D
02. C
03. B
04. E
05. F
Q10. Which of the following would be the THIRD sentence after the rearrangement?
01. C
02. E
03. F
04. D
05. B
Answers
1. (5)
2. (1)
3. (2)
4. (5)
5. (5)
6. (2) The correct rearrangement is AFDCEB. The passage is about organic food.
7. (1) The correct rearrangement is AFDCEB. The passage is about organic food.
8. (1) The correct rearrangement is AFDCEB. The passage is about organic food.
9. (3) The correct rearrangement is AFDCEB. The passage is about organic food.
10. (4) The correct rearrangement is AFDCEB. The passage is about organic food.
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