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Which sectorRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Sectors bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Nehru favoured which economic system, but not the Soviet version?Read the answer and worked solution →An economy where the government and the market together decide what, how and for whom to produce is:Read the answer and worked solution →India borrowed the idea of five year plans from:Read the answer and worked solution →A long-term plan covering twenty years is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →The Planning Commission was set up in 1950 with whom as its Chairperson?Read the answer and worked solution →The goals of the five year plans were growth, modernisation, self-reliance and:Read the answer and worked solution →The architect of Indian planning, whose ideas shaped the Second Plan, was:Read the answer and worked solution →By 1990 the share of the service sector in GDP was:Read the answer and worked solution →A farmer switching to new seed varieties illustrates the planning goal of:Read the answer and worked solution →Avoiding imports of goods that could be produced in India itself is the goal of:Read the answer and worked solution →Zamindars and jagirdars who collected rent without improving farms were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Low farm productivity at independence forced India to import food from:Read the answer and worked solution →Fixing the maximum size of land an individual may own is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Land reforms succeeded in Kerala and West Bengal because their governments were committed to:Read the answer and worked solution →The green revolution refers to a large increase in food grain output from HYV seeds especially for wheat and:Read the answer and worked solution →In its first phase, the green revolution was restricted to affluent states like Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and:Read the answer and worked solution →The part of farm produce that farmers sell in the market is called:Read the answer and worked solution →To let small farmers afford HYV inputs, the government gave low interest loans and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Second Plan spoke of the government controlling the ___ of the economy.Read the answer and worked solution →The Industrial Policy Resolution that classified industries into three categories was adopted in:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1955 committee that saw small-scale industries as a route to rural development was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Small-scale industries generate more employment because they are more:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the plan goalsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the economic systemsRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the planning wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Farm or industry policyRead the answer and worked solution →

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Which sector

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Items
  1. Group
    Primary
    Item
    Cotton
  2. Group
    Primary
    Item
    Dairy
  3. Group
    Primary
    Item
    Fishing
  4. Group
    Secondary
    Item
    Sugar mill
  5. Group
    Secondary
    Item
    Brick kiln
  6. Group
    Secondary
    Item
    Weaving
  7. Group
    Tertiary
    Item
    Banking
  8. Group
    Tertiary
    Item
    Transport
  9. Group
    Tertiary
    Item
    Teaching
Groups
  1. Item
    Primary
  2. Item
    Secondary
  3. Item
    Tertiary
Instructions
Drop each activity onto its sector.
_Source: syllabus Economics, Understanding Economic Development, Chapter 2, Sectors of the Indian Economy._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    100
    Question
    Days of work MGNREGA guarantees each year
  2. Answer
    625
    Question
    Districts covered by MGNREGA, about
  3. Answer
    9
    Question
    Times industrial output rose in forty years, more than
  4. Answer
    14
    Question
    Times service sector output rose
  5. Answer
    20
    Question
    Lakh jobs possible in education alone
  6. Answer
    2005
    Question
    Year of the MGNREGA law
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Economics, Understanding Economic Development, Chapter 2, Sectors of the Indian Economy._

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Sectors bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Natural products: farming, dairy, fishing.
    Item
    Primary
  2. Clue
    Manufacturing; the industrial sector.
    Item
    Secondary
  3. Clue
    Services that aid production.
    Item
    Tertiary
  4. Clue
    Value of final goods and services in a year.
    Item
    GDP
  5. Clue
    Goods used up making final goods.
    Item
    Intermediate
  6. Clue
    All work, output would not fall if some left.
    Item
    Disguised
  7. Clue
    100 days of rural work a year.
    Item
    MGNREGA
  8. Clue
    Regular terms, registered, laws followed.
    Item
    Organised
  9. Clue
    The former Planning Commission.
    Item
    NITI Aayog
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Economics, Understanding Economic Development, Chapter 2, Sectors of the Indian Economy._

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