What are the occupational structure of India?

Answer 1

Since the early 1950s, successive governments have implemented various schemes, under planning, to alleviate poverty, that have met with partial success. Programmes like Food for work and National Rural Employment Programme have attempted to use the unemployed to generate productive assets and build rural infrastructure. In August 2005, the Indian parliament passed the Rural Employment Guarantee Bill, the largest programme of this type, in terms of cost and coverage, which promises 100 days of minimum wage employment to every rural household in 200 of India's 600 districts. The question of whether economic reforms have reduced poverty or not has fuelled debates without generating any clear cut answers and has also put political pressure on further economic reforms, especially those involving downsizing of labour and cutting down agricultural subsidiary

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India's labor force exhibits extremes ranging from large numbers of illiterate workers unaccustomed to machinery or routine, to a sizable pool of highly educated scientists, technicians, and engineers, capable of working anywhere in the world. A substantial number of skilled people have left India to work abroad; the country has suffered a brain drain since independence. Nonetheless, many remain in India working alongside a trained industrial and commercial work force. Administrative skills, particularly necessary in large projects or programs, are in short supply, however. In the mid-1990s, salaries for top administrators and technical staff rose sharply, partly in response to the arrival of foreign companies in India. http://countrystudies.us/india/95.htm

Answer 2

The occupational structure is described and analysed by means of various classificatory schemes, which group similar occupations together according to specific criteria such as skill, employment status, or function

there are three categories under occupational structure

1 .primary sector- agriculture,fishing,, loggery come under this category.these are primary bcoz production is carried with the hepl of nature

2.secondary sector-all manufacturing industries come under this.

3.tertiary sector-it provides services to both primary and secondary secto

Answer 3

the occupational pattern of India has changed a lot since independence. a several years ago as there was less technological development in the world most of the people were engaged in primary section of occupations like agriculture, fishing, mining etc. but with the progress in the technology through out the world most of the people have shifted from primary to secondry and tertiary sector of occupations.