Indian Economic Development

Employment

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Formal sector establishment are those establishment that employs ?

20 hired workers or more

20 hired workers or less

10 hired workers or more

10 hired workers or less

✅ Correct Option: 3

As per NCERT, the formal (organised) sector in India consists of all public sector establishments and those private sector establishments that employ 10 or more hired workers. Establishments with fewer than 10 hired workers belong to the informal sector.

2022: 19 July Shift 2

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I	List - II
(A) Increase in proportion of workforce in informal sector	(I) More people are engaged to work, then required
(B) Open unemployment	(II) Informalisation of work force
(C) Disguised unemployment	(III) Worker uses his own resources to make a living
(D) self-employment	(IV) People are willing to work, but fail to get work

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2026: 21 May Shift 1

What do you mean by disguised unemployment in a sector?

2022: 16 July Shift 2

Put the following schemes chronologically:

A. Start of Jan Dhan Yojana

B. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

C. Study group formed by the Planning Commission to estimate the number of poor in India

D. Task force on projection of minimum needs and effective consumption demand

E. Food for work programme was launched

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2023: 29 May Shift 2

Match List I with List II

	LIST I		LIST II
A.	Growth in GDP without generating employment	I.	Formal Sector
B.	Process of moving self employment and regular salaried to casual wage work	II.	Jobless Growth
C.	All establishments which employ 10 hired workers or more	III.	Casualization of work force
D.	Increases in proportion of workforce in informal sector	IV.	Informalization of work force

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2022: 16 July Shift 2

Match List I with List II

LIST I (Reference in case study)	LIST II (Fact given)
A. Post economic reforms	I. Employment with an improved workplace.
B. Industry and service sector	II. Employ's 45.6% workforce
C. Trained man-power want	III. Acceleration in GVA growth rate
D. Agriculture	IV. 80% of GVA in 2019-2020

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2022: 16 July Shift 2

If the share of agriculture in the economy deceases and the share of non-agricultural sectors rises, then it may be called as :

Formal sector establishment are those establishment that employs ?

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