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Mahindra current affairs magazine
Mahindra current affairs magazine Published this article page no 19 it is understood that in the context of a country like india the work participation rate tends to be higher in the areas of lower levels of economic development since number of manual workers are needed to perform the subsistence or near subsistence economic activities. the occupational composition see box of indias population which actually means engagement of an individual in farming manufacturing trade services or any kind of professional activities shows a large proportion of primary sector workers compared to secondary an...
Mahindra current affairs magazine
Mahindra current affairs magazine Published this article page no 18 the population of india according to their economic status is divided into three groups namely main workers marginal workers and non-workers. it is observed that in india the proportion of workers both main and marginal is only 39.8 the proportion of working population of the states and union territories show a moderate variation from about 39.6 per cent in goa to about 49.9 per cent in daman and diu. the states with larger percentages of workers are himachal pradesh sikkim chhattisgarh andhra pradesh karnataka arunachal...
Mahindra current affairs magazine
Mahindra current affairs magazine Published this article page no 20 the number of female workers is relatively high in primary sector though in recent years there has been some improvement in work participation of women in secondary and tertiary sectors. it is important to note that the proportion of workers in agricultural sector in india has shown a decline over the last few decades 58.2% in 2001 to 54.6% in 2011. consequently the participation rate in secondary and tertiary sector has registered an increase. this indicates a shift of dependence of workers from farmbased occupations to non-f...
You and i magazine
You and i magazine published this article page no 21 for instance the states like himachal pradesh and nagaland have very large shares of cultivators. on the other hand states like bihar andhra pradesh chhattisgarh odisha jharkhand west bengal and madhya pradesh have higher proportion of agricultural labourers. the highly urbanised areas like delhi chandigarh and puducherry have a very large proportion of workers being engaged in other services. this indicates not only availability of limited farmi...
You and i magazine
You and i magazine published this article page no 22 ram babu working as an engineer in bhilai steel plant chhattisgarh was born in a small village of district bhojpur bihar. at an early age of twelve he moved to a nearby town ara to complete his intermediate level studies. he went to sindri jharkhand for his engineering degree and he got a job at bhilai where he is living for the last 31 years. his parents were illiterate and the only source of their livelihood was meagre income from agriculture. ...