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Tertiary And Quaternary Activities

Question
CBSEENGE12025103

”Services are very important aspect for economic development of a country”. Analyse the statement by explaining five components of a service sector.

Solution

The components:

(i) Low-order services, such as grocery shops and laundries, are more common and widespread than high-order services or more specialised ones like those of accountants, consultants and physicians.

(ii) Services are provided to individual consumers who can afford to pay for them. The gardener, the launderers and the barber do primarily physical labour.

(iii) Teacher, lawyers, physicians, musicians and others perform mental labour

(iv) Making and maintaining highways and bridges, maintaining firefighting departments and supplying or supervising education and customer care are among the important services most often supervised or performed by governments or companies.

(v) Personal services are made available to the people to facilitate their work in daily life. The workers migrate from rural areas in search of employment and are unskilled. They are employed in domestic services as housekeepers, cooks, and gardeners.