Question

For one of your class projects, you had visited the slum areas of Tangra where the children were

seen to be suffering from various nutritional deficiencies. On clinical examination, the children

were seen to be presented with knock knees, pigeon chest and few even had Bitot’s spot. Some

of them were seen with sparse hair, very pale and yellowish skin. Identify the nutritional

deficiencies and causative factors in the children and suggest remedial nutritional measures for

the same.

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Answer 1

Answer:

According to the poet the pictures and maps in the elementary school classroom are meaningless because the map does not include their world of narrow lanes. They live like rats in their cramped holes where fog and darkness dominate their lives.