[Mission 2023] QUED ( Questions from Editorials ) 26 May 2023

Solution: d)

POSHAN Abhiyaan launched on 8^th March 2018 is a multi-ministerial convergence mission with the vision to ensure attainment of malnutrition free India. POSHAN Abhiyaan provides a platform to converge the activities of various stakeholders towards attaining the goal of ‘Suposhit Bharat’.

NITI Aayog was mandated to conduct monitoring and evaluation periodically to assess the progress and impact of the programme. In the report Preserving Progress on Nutrition in India: Poshan Abhiyaan In Pandemic Times NITI Aayog assessed the implementation of POSHAN Abhiyaan since its inception and also analysed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nutrition and health services. Following are the key findings of the report:

• Poshan Abhiyaan has helped to bring a strong focus on improving nutrition outcomes during the first 1,000 days.
• Poshan Abhiyaan has enabled a nation-wide jan-andolan catalysing nutrition related behaviour change at scale for positive impact on feeding and health care practices.
• Poshan Abhiyaan demonstrated that the processes for inter-sectoral convergence are effectively operationalized through in place institutional mechanisms at multiple levels.
• Poshan Abhiyaan showed that technology can be leveraged for real time monitoring of large scale health and nutrition programmes.
• Poshan Abhiyaan supported the resilience of health and nutrition systems during covid-19 pandemic.

Solution: c)

The Tendulkar Committee for the first time recommended use of implicit prices derived from quantity and value data collected in household consumer expenditure surveys for computing and updating the poverty lines. Tendulkar Committee developed a methodology using implicit prices for estimating state wise poverty lines for the year 2004-05. Using these poverty lines and distribution of monthly per capita consumption expenditure based on mixed reference period (MRP), the Tendulkar Committee estimated poverty ratios for the year 2004-05

Solution: c)

Assam – The Land of Red Rivers and Blue Hills. A significant geographical aspect of Assam is that it contains three of six physiographic divisions of India – The Northern Himalayas (Eastern Hills), The Northern Plains (Brahmaputra plain) and Deccan Plateau (Karbi Anglong).

It covers about 2.39 percent of total areas of the country.

Solution: b)

A microphone, colloquially called a mic or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. 

A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.

Solution: d)

Blood flow is the movement of blood through a vessel, tissue, or organ. The slowing or blocking of blood flow is called resistance. Blood pressure is the force that blood exerts upon the walls of the blood vessels or chambers of the heart. The components of blood pressure include systolic pressure, which results from ventricular contraction, and diastolic pressure, which results from ventricular relaxation.