Mining is classified under which sector of the economy?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Quaternary sector
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, the primary sector. 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.
Option B, the secondary sector, would be correct only after the ore is processed: turning iron ore into steel is manufacturing and therefore secondary. Option C, the tertiary sector, covers services such as transport, trade and banking, which produce no goods of their own. Option D, the quaternary sector, is a modern extension used for knowledge based services such as research and software, and it does not appear in the standard threefold classification that examinations use. Candidates most often place mining wrongly in the secondary sector because it is heavy industrial work, so remember the test: if the product is taken directly from nature, it is primary.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich sector of the economy is also known as the service sector?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Public sector
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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.
Read the full explanation →Disguised unemployment is most commonly found in which sector in India?
- A.Agriculture
- B.Information technology
- C.Banking
- D.Mining
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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every member of the household may work on the land even though the work needs far fewer hands; if some of them were withdrawn, total output would not fall.
Read the full explanation →How many days of wage employment in a financial year does MGNREGA guarantee to a rural household?
- A.50 days
- B.100 days
- C.150 days
- D.200 days
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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.
Read the full explanation →Which sector employs the largest share of India's workforce?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Quaternary sector
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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.
Read the full explanation →Banking and insurance are activities of which sector?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Unorganised sector
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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.
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