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[116]. Passage: Child nutrition is shaped long before a school meal: a mother's health, breastfeeding, clean water, and diverse home food matter as much as calories served at noon. Stunting reflects chronic undernutrition and repeated infection, not a single missed meal, and it affects learning and immunity for years. Programmes that only distribute grain miss dietary diversity, iron, and sanitation. Effective action therefore links anganwadis, health workers, clean water and parental education, and measures height and development, not only weight on one day. The word 'stunting' in the passage most nearly means:

1.
impaired growth in children caused by chronic undernutrition
2.
a legal punishment imposed by a court.
3.
a sudden event that has no lasting effect.
4.
a decorative addition with no practical function.
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Option 1 : impaired growth in children caused by chronic undernutrition

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सही उत्तर impaired growth in children caused by chronic undernutrition है।

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In context the word carries the meaning in the correct option.

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[116]. Passage: Child nutrition is shaped long before a school meal: a mother's health, breastfeeding, clean water, and diverse home food matter as much as calories served at noon. Stunting reflects chronic undernutrition and repeated infection, not a single missed meal, and it affects learning and immunity for years. Programmes that only distribute grain miss dietary diversity, iron, and sanitation. Effective action therefore links anganwadis, health workers, clean water and parental education, and measures height and development, not only weight on one day. The word 'stunting' in the passage most nearly means:

1.
impaired growth in children caused by chronic undernutrition
2.
a legal punishment imposed by a court.
3.
a sudden event that has no lasting effect.
4.
a decorative addition with no practical function.

Correct Answer: impaired growth in children caused by chronic undernutrition

In context the word carries the meaning in the correct option.

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