What is the total score obtained by Uttarakhand in the 6th Food Security Index, 2024?
- (a)48.5
- (b)44.25
- (c)38.75
- (d)37.5
Correct — C, 38.75.
The paper's 'Food Security Index' is FSSAI's State Food Safety Index (SFSI) — 'खाद्य सुरक्षा' translates both ways. Its sixth edition, released in 2024, covers the financial year 2023-24.
States and Union Territories are marked out of 100, and Uttarakhand's row in the published score sheet totals 38.75.
That total is built from marks on six scoring heads. Uttarakhand's largest single shortfall is on food testing infrastructure and surveillance, the heaviest head at 36 marks, where it took 15. It earned nothing under improvement in rank.
The idea to carry away: each option here is somebody's real total in that same table, so recognising a familiar-looking figure proves nothing. Anchor the number to the State, and to the edition it came from.
- (a)48.5 — 48.5 is Himachal Pradesh's total in the sixth index's score sheet.
Its marks are distributed differently from Uttarakhand's: 15 on compliance against Uttarakhand's 12, and 18 on food testing against Uttarakhand's 15. Those two heads carry most of the gap between the two rows.
- (b)44.25 — 44.25 is the total on two rows in the same sheet — Nagaland's and Uttar Pradesh's.
Nagaland's 44.25 also carried FSSAI's special acknowledgement as the best performer among the North Eastern hilly States, so this is a figure worth remembering with its own owners attached.
- (d)37.5 — 37.5 is Delhi's total in that score sheet.
It sits 1.25 marks below Uttarakhand's. A memory pitched at 'somewhere in the high thirties' does not separate the two, and five rows in this sheet fall inside that band, so the figure has to be attached to a State rather than approximated.
The State Food Safety Index is FSSAI's annual benchmarking of States and Union Territories on food-safety administration. It turns regulatory data into marks out of 100, so a score describes how well a State's food safety machinery is staffed, enforcing, testing and training.
It measures regulation rather than nutrition. A State can score modestly here while running large food distribution schemes, because the parameters ask about licensing, inspection, laboratories, training and consumer awareness.
Food sits on the Concurrent List, and the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 divides the work. FSSAI sets standards and policy at the centre, while State Food Safety Authorities and their drug and food administrations do the enforcement on the ground.
The index exists to make that state-level enforcement visible and comparable. A State's total is therefore a report card on its own food safety administration rather than on the central regulator.
- Uttarakhand's row in the sixth State Food Safety Index, for 2023-24, totals 38.75 out of 100.
- Uttarakhand's marks: 4.75 human resources and institutional data, 12 compliance, 15 food testing, 4 training, 3 consumer empowerment, 0 improvement in rank.
- The heaviest scoring head is food testing — infrastructure and surveillance, at 36 marks; compliance follows at 28 marks.
- Improvement in rank over the 2022-23 index carries 10 marks; human resources and consumer empowerment carry 9 marks each; training and capacity building carries 8.
- FSSAI names five core parameters, and the 2023-24 score sheet adds improvement in rank as a sixth scoring column.
- Kerala heads the sixth index score sheet with 73.75, ahead of Tamil Nadu 67 and Jammu & Kashmir 64.25; Gujarat 61.75 drew a special mention.
- Nagaland, at 44.25, received a special acknowledgement as the best performer among the North Eastern hilly States.
- Haryana and Karnataka also total 38.75 in the same score sheet.
- Marking draws on FSSAI's online portals — FoSCoS, FoSCoRIS, FoSTaC, INFoLNET and the ERI Initiative — together with state portals.
- The first State Food Safety Index was released on 7 June 2019, and FSSAI announces one for each financial year since 2019.
Uttarakhand's row in FSSAI's sixth State Food Safety Index, 2023-24; the six scoring heads add to 38.75.
- Reading this as a hunger or food-availability ranking. The score measures food-safety regulation by State authorities, not access to food.
- Approximating the figure. Five rows in this score sheet fall between 37 and 39, so 'high thirties' does not decide between 38.75 and 37.5.
- Mixing the edition with the year. The sixth index covers financial year 2023-24, and earlier editions carry different numbers for the same State.
- Treating 38.75 as unique to Uttarakhand. Haryana and Karnataka carry the same total, so any question about relative position needs the full row, not just the number.
This shape gives you a State and an index and wants the exact figure, so an approximate recall does not survive the option set — the wrong options are other States' and UTs' totals from the same score sheet.
The same score sheet supports other questions: which State headed the edition, which parameter carries the most marks, which authority publishes the index, and which State was singled out among the North Eastern hilly States.
MPPSC_2025_PRE_PaperI_Q362025Same construction: recall the home State's own numeric score in a national index, with the wrong options set at plausible nearby values. What differs is the index and the arithmetic behind it — that item asks for Madhya Pradesh's composite SDG score in the SDG India Index 3.0, a NITI Aayog product built from goal-wise indicators, while this one asks for a mark total awarded by FSSAI for food-safety administration.
MPPSC_2024_PRE_PaperI_Q402024The same index-literacy skill approached from the other side: it asks for the scoring architecture — the score bands defining Aspirant, Performer, Front-runner and Achiever in the SDG India Index — rather than one State's figure. Worth pairing, because knowing how a State Food Safety Index total is assembled from weighted parameters is what makes a single number like 38.75 memorable instead of arbitrary.
UKPSC_2024_MAINS_GSVI_Q52024Shares the State and the broad subject of food policy in Uttarakhand, and is the natural revision neighbour. The substance differs, though: that Mains question is about food security delivery — the public distribution system and Uttarakhand's ration card categories — whereas this item is about food safety regulation, a separate statutory machinery under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which body releases the State Food Safety Index?
- (a)NITI Aayog
- (b)Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
- (c)Department of Food and Public Distribution
- (d)National Institute of Nutrition
Answerb — FSSAI, the regulator constituted under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, publishes the index.NITI Aayog produces the SDG India Index and similar composite indices; the Department of Food and Public Distribution handles the public distribution system; the National Institute of Nutrition is an ICMR research institute.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which State/UT heads the score sheet of the 6th State Food Safety Index (2023-24)?
- (a)Tamil Nadu
- (b)Gujarat
- (c)Kerala
- (d)Jammu & Kashmir
Answerc — Kerala tops the sheet with 73.75.Tamil Nadu (67) and Jammu & Kashmir (64.25) come next, and Gujarat (61.75) was named for a special mention rather than the leading position.
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In the 6th State Food Safety Index (2023-24), which parameter carries the largest weightage in marks?
- (a)Compliance
- (b)Consumer empowerment and FSSAI initiatives
- (c)Food testing — infrastructure and surveillance
- (d)Training and capacity building
Answerc — food testing, infrastructure and surveillance carries 36 marks, the largest share of the 100.Compliance is next at 28 marks, consumer empowerment and FSSAI initiatives carries 9, and training and capacity building carries 8.
- practice — not a real PYQ
In the 6th State Food Safety Index (2023-24) score sheet, Uttarakhand's total is equal to that of which of the following States?
- (a)Haryana
- (b)Assam
- (c)Bihar
- (d)Delhi
Answera — Haryana's row also totals 38.75, reached with a different spread of marks; Karnataka shares that total too, but is not offered here.Assam stands at 38.5, Delhi at 37.5 and Bihar at 36.5 — close to Uttarakhand's figure, but not equal to it.