Economics

Chapter – Sectors of Indian Economy

Assignment

5 Marks:

1. Give five reasons for the rising importance of the tertiary sector in production.
2. Describe the provisions of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005.
3. What is GDP? Explain the process to calculate GDP.
4. Compare the employment conditions prevailing in the organised and unorganised sector?
5. In what ways can employment be increased in urban areas?

3 Marks:
1.Name the sector that is the largest employer in India. Why does this sector produce only a
quarter of the national GDP?
2. Explain disguised unemployment with two examples, one from urban areas and other from rural
areas.
3. How does service sector help in the development of the primary and secondary sectors?
Explain with examples.
4. With the example of sugarcane, explain the interdependence of all the three sectors of the
economy.
5. “Consequences of the environmental degradation do not respect national or state boundaries.”
Explain.
6. Explain the interdependence of all three sectors giving examples from transportation system.
7. Explain how public sector contributes to the economic development of a nation.
8. “The organized working class owes respect to the first men who planted the standard of labour
solidarity on the hostile frontier of the unorganized Industry”.
Analyze the above statement to highlight the rights that the organized industry enjoys now
due to the solidarity shown by the labor groups earlier.
9. Observe the graph given below and what are the inferences can be made from the
graph ?