Solution: a
● Statement 1 is correct: Anaemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) Programme was launched in 2018 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to reduce the prevalence of anaemia among children, adolescents and women in the reproductive age group(15–49 years).
● Statement 2 is incorrect: The programme aims to reduce the proportion of anaemia among children to 40%, pregnant women to 32% and lactating women to 40% by 2022.

Solution: a
● Statement 1 is correct.
● Statement 2 is incorrect: There are 30 member cities in the alliance.
● Dehradun, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Srinagar, Begusarai, Bhagalpur,Munger, Patna, Berhampore, Hooghly-Chinsurah, Howrah, Jangipur, Maheshtala, Rajmahal, Sahibganj, Ayodhya, Bijnor, Farrukhabad, Kanpur, Mathura-Vrindavan, Mirzapur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Aurangabad, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Pune, Udaipur and Vijayawada.
● The Alliance will focus on three broad themes- Networking, Capacity Building and Technical Support.

Solution: c
Both the statements are correct.
● It will provide improved weather, climate and ocean forecast and services, thereby ensuring transfer of commensurate benefits to the various services.
● It will also provide a sizable number of scientific and technical staff along with requisite administrative support, thereby generating employment.
● It will generate employment opportunities to many people as large number of agencies like the Krishi Vigyana Kendras of ICAR, Universities and local municipalities are roped to ensure last-mile connectivity of the weather based services to the end–user.

Solution: c
● A V-shaped recovery is characterised by quick and effective recovery in measures of economic performance after an acute decline in the economy. The recovery we see today is more K-shaped than V-shaped, with various groups and industries recovering much more rapidly than their counterparts.
● A K-shaped recovery occurs when, following a recession, different parts of the economy recover at different rates, times, or magnitude

Solution: c
● An economy’s annual GDP is the total money value of all final (not intermediate) goods and services produced within the geographical boundaries in a year.
● It can be argued — and quite justifiably — that the GDP does not really map the wellbeing of a population. It is quite possible — and is often quite likely — that even as the overall GDP goes up, economic inequalities also rise, fuelling discontent