QUESTION 7
GS2
10 marks
Poverty and malnutrition create a vicious cycle, adversely affecting human capital formation. What steps can be taken to break the cycle?
WRITE IN
7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Explain how poverty and malnutrition reinforce each other and suggest concrete steps to break the cycle.
SuggestPropose specific, workable measures.
Demand-wise check
- 1Cycle: low income → poor diet and health → stunting → low learning and productivity → low income≈35 words
- 2Data: NFHS-5 stunting 35.5%, anaemia≈35 words
- 3Steps: nutrition (POSHAN 2.0), fortification, PDS diversification (millets), WASH, women's education and income, maternity benefits≈35 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
Cycle diagramDataSteps by stageConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Not showing the cycle
- Listing schemes without linking to a stage of the cycle
Draw this
- Circular diagram of the cycle with intervention points
Value addition
- DataNFHS-5: 35.5% of children under five are stunted and 57% of women aged 15–49 are anaemic.National Family Health Survey-5
- SchemeMission Poshan 2.0 merges ICDS supplementary nutrition and POSHAN Abhiyaan.Ministry of Women and Child Development
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- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 11 ↗Same syllabus reference
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