Questions
Q1. Consider the following statements about “Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN)”
1.Under the SUMAN initiative Government will provide free transport from home to health institutions.
2.Under it, only pregnant women and mothers up to 6 months after delivery will be able to avail free healthcare benefits.
3.SUMAN initiative for Zero Preventable Maternal and Newborn Deaths.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) All of the above
Q2. Consider the following statements
Assertion (A): According to the World Bank Global Nutrition Report – 2018, malnutrition costs India at least $10 billion annually in terms of lost productivity, illness and death.
Reason (R): Malnutrition is seriously retarding improvements in human development and further reduction of childhood mortality.
Select the correct answer from codes given below
a) Both A and R are correct, and R is the correct explanation of A
b) Both A and R are correct, and R is not correct explanation of A
c) A is correct while R is incorrect
d) A is incorrect while R is correct
Q3. Which of the following statements about “POSHAN abhiyan” are correct?
1.The ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) in association with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Deendayal Research Institute is developing a POSHAN atlas under POSHAN abhiyan.
2.POSHAN Abhiyaan targets to reduce stunting, undernutrition, anemia (among young children, women and adolescent girls) and reduce low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively.
3.The target of the mission is to bring down stunting among children in the age group 0-6 years from 38.4% to 25% by 2022.
4.POSHAN Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission) was launched by the government on March 8, 2015.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1, 2 and 4 only
b) 2, 3 and 4 only
c) 1, 2 and 3 only
d) All of the above
Q4. Which of the following statements are correct about Invasive Weeds?
1.The spread of invasive weed species like Hyptis, Cassia Tora and Parthenium has been detected in environmentally-sensitive areas like Adilabad district of Telangana.
2.The Rio de Janeiro Convention on Biodiversity (1992) had recognised the biological invasion of alien species of plants as the second-worst threat to the environment after habitat destruction.
3.These invasive weeds encourage the grasslands to grow, which in turn leads to a decrease in the population of herbivores, which are prey to the Tigers.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) All of the above
Q5. According to the National Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy Survey which of the following statements are correct?
1.According to the Survey prevalence of diabetes in India has been recorded at 11.8% in the last four years with almost same percentage of men and women suffering from the disease.
2.Prevalence of blindness among diabetics was 2.1% and visual impairment was 13.7%.
3.According to WHO there are estimated 72.96 million cases of diabetes in adult population of India.
4.National Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy Survey was conducted during 2015-2019 by Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences along with AIIMS Delhi.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1, 2 and 4 only
b) 2, 3 and 4 only
c) 1, 3 and 4 only
d) All of the above
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