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Worker population ratio is an indicator which is used for analysing the employment situation in the country .The ratio is useful is knowing the proportion of population that is actively contributing to the production of goods and services of a country. There has been a change in the structure of workforce in India. Newly emerging jobs are found mostly in the service sector. The expansion of the service sector and the advent of high technology now frequently permit a highly competitive existence for efficient small scale and often individual enterprises or specialist workers side by side with the multinationals. Outsourcing of work is becoming a common practice. It means that a big firm finds it profitable to close down some of its specialist departments and hand over a large number of small piecemeal jobs to very small enterprises or specialist individuals, sometimes situated even in other countries. The traditional notion of the modern factory or office, as a result, has been altered in such a manner that for many the home is becoming the workplace. All of this change has not gone in favour of the individual worker. The nature of employment has become more informal with only limited availability of social security measures to the workers. In the last few decades, there has been rapid growth in the gross domestic product, but without simultaneous increase in employment opportunities. This has forced the government to take up initiatives in generating employment opportunities particularly in the rural areas as it is seen in rural economy that dependency in absolute term is increasing on farm sector.

Which among the following is common practice in new development approach?

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

The passage states that outsourcing of work is becoming a common practice, where big firms hand over specialised piecemeal jobs to small enterprises or specialist individuals, sometimes in other countries. Hence outsourcing specialised work is the common practice in the new approach.

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