Question

Explain the employment structure of India.

Answer 1

Economic development creates various types of occupations in an economy. All these various occupations can be broadly classified into three categories, viz., primary, secondary and tertiary. The primary occupations include all those essential activities such as agriculture and allied activities like animal husbandry, forestry, fishery, poultry farming etc.

Secondary activities include manufacturing industries composed of both large and small scale and mining. Tertiary activities include all other activities like transport, communication, banking, insurance, trade etc. The occupational structure indicated the distribution as well as absorption of population into these various types of occupations.

Answer 2

Solution:

India’s employment structure is mainly divided into three phases named primary, secondary and tertiary.

Major population of India is associated with the primary sector mainly comprising of agriculture and animal husbandry.

Secondary sector relates to the profession, industry.

On the other hand, tertiary sector is also regarded as the service sector.

However, there is shifting in the employment structure mainly towards secondary and tertiary sector mainly due to economical reasons.