निम्नलिखित कथनों में से कौन-सा एक, इस परिच्छेद के मर्म को सर्वोत्तम रूप से प्रतिबिंबित करता है ?
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Which one of the following statements best reflects the crux of the passage?
(a) The scheme of Universal Basic Income should be implemented worldwide as a way of poverty alleviation. · (b) We must place food-based nutrition at the centre of our policy debate. · (c) Nutritional status of food should be improved by creating appropriate genetically modified crops. · (d) Using modern food processing technologies, we must fortify food items with required nutrient elements.
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (b) हमें खाद्य-आधारित पोषण को अपने नीति विषयक विचार-विमर्श के केंद्र में रखना चाहिए ।
The passage traces poor nutrition to unhealthy food choices, poor access and poor affordability, and blames food systems that are not responding to nutritional needs 'from farm to fork'. Its crux is that nutrition through food must be central to policy.
- ✗ (a) Universal Basic Income is not mentioned; affordability is only one of several causes described.
- ✓ (b) The closing idea, that 'our food systems are not properly responding to nutritional needs', calls for making food-based nutrition the centre of policy.
- ✗ (c) Genetically modified crops are outside the passage.
- ✗ (d) Fortification is a specific technique the passage does not discuss, and it would not address the choice and access problems described.
Remember · The crux covers all the causes a passage lists; specific technical fixes such as GM crops or fortification are usually too narrow.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2023, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·