Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Economics

Chapter

Indian Economic Development: Employment - Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues

Question:

Electricity, Gas and Water Supply economic activities will fall under which category of industrial division?

Options:

primary

secondary

service

quinary

Correct Answer:

secondary

Explanation:

The current answer is Option 2: secondary

Generally, we divide all economic activities into eight different industrial divisions.They are (i) Agriculture (ii) Mining and Quarrying (iii) Manufacturing (iv) Electricity, Gas and Water Supply (v) Construction (vi) Trade (vii) Transport and Storage and (viii) Services.

For simplicity, all the working persons engaged in these divisions can be clubbed into three major sectors viz.,

(a) primary sector which includes (i) and (ii),

(b) secondary sector which includes (iii), (iv) and (v)

and (c) service sector which includes divisions (vi), (vii) and (viii).