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Current Affairs UPPSC 1999 GS-I
Question

According to Human Development Report 1997, out of six crore Indian children with less than four years of age, adequate nutrition is not available to:

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Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option D: 53%

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “53%”.
According to the Human Development Report 1997, out of the six crore (60 million) Indian children under the age of four, adequate nutrition was not available to: (4) 53%

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