SSC GD 2025 PYQ — Question 1

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The National Family Health Survey (NFHS) mentioned in its report how effectively India has used its newly created wealth to alter a dismal record of nutritional deprivation, ill-health and lost potential (1)_____ its citizens, particularly women and children. Given the steady growth in real per capita GDP since the 1980s, and the progress made since Independence in overcoming severe undernourishment, enlightened policy approaches could have brought about a giant leap from 1992-93, when the first NFHS was conducted, (2)_____ that no child or woman was left behind in the quest for health for all. Evidently, the Indian state has not viewed the situation as constituting a national crisis, even at the height of a prosperous phase of economic growth when a decade ago 39% of children under the age of five remained underweight. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that this failure to assume responsibility for child nutrition has left 34% of children in that age group underweight today. There is also a lot of evidence to show that the (3)_____ sections of India’s children have low weight even at birth due to the general (4)_____ of women’s nutrition and well-being. It is imperative that the coming data lead to the charting of a new policy course that makes (5)_____ to nutrition and health a right for all.