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Following are today’s Mains Marathon Questions.
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Questions
1.) Increasing the age of marriage without a commensurate improvement in women’s education is least likely to yield better health and nutritional outcomes. Discuss.
2.) While there has been some progress in tackling malnutrition among children and women over the past decade, the improvement has been modest at best. Discuss the reasons and implications for the prevalence of malnutrition in India.
Very balanced answer. Proper structure and fairly wide range of points in reasons and implications. (Just cross-check the data regarding 2 million people going hungry every night, I think it is higher).
In implications, You could have also added the impact on cognitive and learning abilities of children due to malnutrition.
Also in suggestions, do add the point of enhancing the finance to the welfare schemes as has been mentioned in the article.
Very good answer overall!
Keep writing 🙂
Thanks for positive response
This could have been better. Some improvements:
1. You should clearly demarcate the aspects of the answer with proper titles e.g., reasons for malnutrition, Implications of malnutrition.
2. More points could have been added in both e.g., in reasons: poverty, lack of access to food, the Government’s food subsidy is also largely limited to food grains other basic components like pulses, milk etc are not there, lack of awareness about balanced diet etc.
Way forward is properly written with good suggestions like outcome based approach, enhancing finances.
Thank you . I ll correct my mistakes
The answer looks a bit unstructured. Ideally, You should first mention the benefits of delayed marriage (or the harms of early marriage) on health/nutritional outcomes etc. Then You can list down the reasons that delayed marriages are actually strongly related with access to education as shown by the NFHS Data.
Also a significant portion of women (~28%) still get married before 18 years means legal provisions alone are not enough to end child marriage. Then in conclusion mention the steps taken to enhance women’s education and what further can be improved.
Keep writing 🙂
Thank you . I ll work on.it