Indian Economy Quiz: Sectors of the Indian Economy

Mining takes a product straight out of nature without changing its form, exactly as farming, fishing and forestry do, and every activity of that kind is placed in the primary sector.

It produces no goods at all; it provides services such as transport, storage, communication, trade, banking, insurance, education, health care and administration, which is why it is commonly called the service sector.

On a small family holding every member of the household may work on the land even though the work needs far fewer hands; if some of them were withdrawn, total output would not fall.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, passed in 2005, guarantees one hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

Agriculture and its allied activities still give work to the largest number of Indians, even though the sector's contribution to national income is far smaller than that share of employment would suggest.

Banking and insurance create no physical product; they support production and trade by providing credit, moving money and covering risk, and such support activities are the core of the tertiary or service sector.

An enterprise belongs to the organised sector when it is registered with the government and follows labour laws, so that employment is regular and secure and workers get fixed hours, paid leave, provident fund and medical benefits.

In the public sector the government owns the assets and provides the services, and the aim is public welfare rather than profit; in the private sector ownership rests with individuals or companies and profit is the motive.

Operation Flood, launched in 1970 and led by Verghese Kurien, linked village dairy cooperatives to city markets and made India one of the world's great milk producers.

Gross domestic product is the money value of all final goods and services produced within the boundaries of a country during a year, counted sector by sector.

A mill turns sugarcane into sugar, that is, it changes the form of a natural product, and every such transformation belongs to the secondary or industrial sector.

The Act requires that employment be given within fifteen days of an application for work, and if the administration fails to do so, the state government becomes liable to pay an unemployment allowance to the applicant.