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Describe the employment scenario in the three section of the economy of india in recent years.

Recent years have seen increase in the employment in service sector. Service or tertiary sector has ever grown since the reforms of 1991.Withe opening up of trade and exchange of technology,India has emerged as an IT giant in the world. Coming up of more and more BPO's and KPO's have increased and strengthened our communication and service foundation. Besides the It world,there has been  good returns from Travel and Tourism industry.

Secondary sector has also seen increase in employment but the increment is not significant and much lower than the expectations. Inida has remained the importer of capital goods which increse the cost of production and doesnt allow domestic producers to invest in R&D. Moreover,with introduction of more machines,demand for human labor force has gone down.

Primary sector has seen a very low increment and even a fall in employment during the recent years. India being an agrarian economy and most of the population living in villages ha witnessed a shift from agricultural industry to manufacturing industry. There has been a significant movement of people from rural to urban areas in search of jobs.This migration has also lead to ever expanding "informal" sector.

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Generally at initial stages of development, primary sector was the most important sector of economic activity. As agriculture sector began to prosper, it produced much more food than before. People could now take up other activities. There were increasing number of craftpersons and traders. Buying and selling activities increased many times. Besides, there were also transporters, administrators, army etc. However, at this stage, most of the goods produced were natural products from the primary sector and most people were also employed in this sector. Over a long time (more than hundred years), and especially because new methods of manufacturing were introduced, factories came up and started expanding. Those people who had earlier worked on farms now began to work in factories in large numbers. People began to use many more goods that were produced in factories at cheap rates. Secondary sector gradually became the most important in total production and employment. Hence, over time, a shift had taken place. This means that the importance of the sectors had changed.In the past 100 years, there has been a further shift from secondary to tertiary sector in developed countries. The service sector has become the most important in terms of total production. Most of the working people are also employed in the service sector. This is the general pattern observed in developed countries.

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