Sectors Of The Indian Economy

Question

Make a long list of all kinds of work that you find adults around you doing for a living. In what way can you classify them? Explain your choice.

Solution

Following is the list of all kinds of work that adults are doing for a living:

Teacher, doctor, engineer, electrician, cattle rearer, shopkeeper, washerman, milk vendor, farmer, insurance manager, government employees, sweeper, domestic worker, factory owner, vegetable grower, work at a construction site.

(i) Primary Sector : Farmer, fruit and flower growers, vegetable grower and cattle rearers.

(ii) Secondary Sector : Work at a construction site, factory owner.

(iii) Tertiary Sector : Engineer, doctor, electrician, teacher, shopkeeper, washerman, insurance manager, government employees, domestic worker, sweeper.

(iv) Organised Sector : Doctor, engineer.

(v) Unorganised Sector : Shopkeeper, electrician, washerman, sweeper, domestic work and insurance manager.

Some More Questions From Sectors of the Indian Economy Chapter

GDP is the total value of _______ produced during a particular year.

In terms of GDP the share of tertiary sector in 2010-2011 is ____________.

Match the following:

Find the odd one out and say, why.

(i) Tourist guide, dhobi, tailor, potter

(ii) Teacher, doctor, vegetable vendor, lawyer.

(iii) Postman, cobbler, soldier, police constable.

(iv) MTNL, Indian Railways, Air India, Sahara Airlines, All India Radio.

A research scholar looked at the working people in the city of Surat and found the following:

Place of work

Nature of employment

Percentage of working people

1. In offices and factories registered with the government

Organised

15

2. Own shops, office, clinics in marketplaces with formal license

15

3. People working on the street, construction workers, domestic workers

20

4. Working in small workshops usually not registered with the government

Complete the table. What is the percentage of workers in the unorganised sector in this city?

Do you think the classification of economic activities into primary, secondary and tertiary sectors is useful? Explain, how?

For each of the sectors that we came across in this chapter, why should one focus on employment and G.D.P.? Could there be other issues which should be examined? Discuss.

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