Topic: Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
4. Addressing hunger and malnutrition is a complex challenge that requires a sustained and coordinated effort at local, national, and global levels. Examine its impact and suggest solutions. (250 words)
Difficulty level: Moderate
Reference: The Hindu
Why the question:
The article discusses a successful approach to addressing malnutrition in the Bemetara district, emphasizing community participation, locally sourced nutrition, and women’s empowerment as key elements of the strategy.
Key Demand of the question:
To write about causes and impact of hunger and malnutrition and ways to tackle it.
Directive word:
Examine – When asked to ‘Examine’, we must investigate the topic (content words) in detail, inspect it, investigate it and establish the key facts and issues related to the topic in question. While doing so we should explain why these facts and issues are important and their implications.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Begin by giving a statistic regarding Hunger and malnutrition in India.
Body:
Describe the impact of hunger and malnutrition in India – status of child mortality, stunting and wasting in India, loss of demographic dividend, extreme poverty etc.
Next write about the causes – there are social factors like early marriage etc all of which contribute to the undernourishment, stunting and wasting of children.
Next, write about the measures that are needed at local, national, and global levels to overcome hunger and malnutrition in the country.
Conclusion:
Conclude by writing a way forward.
