Q. In India, over the last decade or so, labour has been departing agriculture, but is only going to construction and unregistered manufacturing which are not markedly better jobs.
Services, where labour tends to be most productive, are not generating the additional jobs the country needs. India will need 24 million or so jobs over the next decade. The new sector, e-commerce, can at best close only half the jobs gap. Only those sectors that drive domestic demand such as health and education can comfortably fill the other half.
Q1. Which one of the following is best implied in the passage?
(a) Strong measures need to be taken to reduce the rural to urban migration of labour.
(b) The working condition in construction and unregistered manufacturing needs to be improved.
(c) Service sector has been reducing the problem of unemployment.
(d) Increased social sector spending is imperative for large-scale job creation.
Correct Answer: (d) Increased social sector spending is imperative for large-scale job creation.
Question from UPSC Prelims 2020 CSAT Paper
Explanation :
(d) Increased social sector spending is imperative for large-scale job creation is best implied in the passage.
The passage suggests that while labour has been departing agriculture, they are only going to construction and unregistered manufacturing, which are not markedly better jobs. The service sector, where labour tends to be most productive, is not generating the additional jobs the country needs. The passage goes on to state that India will need 24 million or so jobs over the next decade and that only those sectors that drive domestic demand, such as health and education, can comfortably fill the other half of the job gap. This implies that increased social sector spending is imperative for large-scale job creation.
