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RakhiAIR 65· 2024

Question Q7GS2GS2

While income poverty has declined, nutritional poverty persists in India. How can the present food security interventions of the government be restructured to address this concern holistically? (Answer in 150 words)

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Nutritional poverty refers to deficiency of enough daily intake to promote healthy and active life as per United Nations, leading to chronic hunger. Reduce income rise in minimum wages, decline of inequality (GINI=0.357) - income poverty, on middle class upper as per World bank. Focus on limited cereals eg rice, wheat, nutritional poverty: Relevance on packaged food leading

Restructuring of government interventions: (1) Diversification of subsidy eg MSP to be extended to all crops (2) Expanded scope of level security - eg update list of PDS as per latest census (3) Promote fortification eg millets and vitamin A fortified rice in PDS (4) Labelling of food eg as per directions eg FSSAI, reducing intake of salt and transfat (5) Inclusion of eggs and proteins - in schools eg Mid-day meal scheme (6) Rations eg in schools by CBSE on need for healthy food. Thus, need is to address hunger by focusing on malnutrition and dissecting GHI of 105 [illegible]

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Rakhi

AIR 652024

Subject & Paper

GS2GS2

Topic

Issues relating to Poverty and Hunger

Poverty and Malnutrition

Poverty and Malnutrition

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