GS-II: Education of mothers directly linked to better nutrition for children.
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The Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey studied 1.2 lakh children between 2016 and 2018 and measured food consumption, anthropometric data, micronutrient levels, anaemia, iron deficiency and markers of non-communicable diseases.
Core Indicators:
Diet diversity meal frequency an minimum acceptable diet are the three core indicators of nutrition deficiency among infants and young children.
Higher schooling in another, children received better diets. Only 11.45 of the children of mothers with no schooling received adequately diverse meals, while 31.8% whose mothers finished class 12th received diverse meals.
Children in the age group of 10-19 showed a higher prevalence of pre-diabetes if their mother had finished schooling .
The prevalence of high cholesterol levels was at 6.2% in these children (age group of 10-19) as opposed to 4.8% among those whose mothers never attended school.
The proportion of children aged two to four consuming dairy products, eggs and other fruits and vegetables increased with the mothers while 80.5% of the children of mothers who completed their schooling .
Flip Side:
Higher level of education among mothers meant that their children received meals less frequently because chances of the women being employed and travelling long distances to work went up-50.4% of children in the age of 6-23 months born to illiterate mothers versus 36.2% among those who had finished schooling.
Conclusion:
Such children were also at a higher risk of cholesterol as relative prosperity could lead to higher consumption of sugary drinks and foods high in cholesterol. The prevalence of high cholesterol levels was 6.2% in these children as opposed to 4.8% among those whose mothers attended school.
Source: THE HINDU
GS-III: ‘Foreign’ plastic invades Great Nicobar Island.
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The pristine beaches of the Great Nicobar island , India’s southern most territory are under threat from plastic.
Threat of plastic in beaches:
Strain of Tourism:
However the researchers also point out that litter of the Indian origin on beaches and mangroves of the Andaman Islands is continuously increasing.
This is probably due to lack of proper guidelines and inadequate staff to monitor these islands.
Biggest threat:
About Great Nicobar Island:
Source: THE HINDU
GS-IIII: A tax policy that could work.
Indian government desperate to raise more tax revenues. It missed its tax targets last fiscal year, (poor goods and services tax (GST) collections). Its declared budgetary target for the current year requires tax receipts to increase by around 25%, when the first quarter increase was only 6%.
MNCs Tax Evasion:
Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS):
The OECD G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project (or BEPS Project):
Conclusion:
A government that is currently ineffective in battling both economic slowdown and declining tax revenues cannot afford to neglect this crucial opportunity.
Source: THE HINDU
GS-III: A lodestar to steer the economy.
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There is a anxiety all over about the economic slowdown in the country. While the government is still in denial mode data flowing uninterrupted that sector is starting at a seriously challenging situation.
Data:
Recession:
Consumption:
Measures taken and their impacts :
Way forward:
Focus on optimum utilization of funds granted by RBI and direct them to boost investment in the economy both infrastructural and research investment.
Structural shifts over the long run can be achieved through tapping into the health and education sectors that long for quality improvements.
Source: THE HINDU
GS-IV: Prize for peace
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee’ awarded this year’s Peace Prize to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
Reasons for the prize:
Conflict with Eritrea:
Reforms at home:
Challenges ahead:
Conclusion
Being a Nobel peace prize winner, he should come up with a national action plan to end violence, ease ethnic tensions and resettle the thousands displaced by the violence.
Source: THE HINDU
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