CBSE 2021 Class 12 Economics Term 1 Paper

Question : 47

Total: 60

From the following, identify the incorrect statement in the light of India's pre-independence occupational structure:

Agricultural sector accounted for the largest share of workforce.
Industrial and Service sectors grew at a faster rate than the agriculture sector.
Agriculture sector was marked with disguised unemployment.
Unbalanced growth was created due to unequal distribution of workforce.

Solution:

(b) Industrial and Service sectors grew at a faster rate than the agriculture sector.
Explanation: During British rule, the 70.75× workforce of people directly or indirectly engaged in agriculture because of passive poverty and widespread illiteracy large proportion of people engaged their. After that agricultural sector engaged more people in comparison to industrial and service sector.
Hence, Industrial and service sectors did not grow at a faster rate than the agriculture sector.

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