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The Union Ministry of Science and Technology has launched SOHUM. What is it?

A drought free breed of rice that can be grown all round the year

A family planning kit that will be distributed free of cost in rural areas

An indigenously developed low-cost hearing screening device fornewborns

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Explanation:

It is a battery-operated non-invasive screening device available across the country to minimise or reverse the hearing loss damage.

It is a low cost portable device which uses brain-stem auditory evoked response to inform whether the child can hear or not.

Once deafness is detected at an early age, measures can be taken to prevent it.

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