Question

“While service sector has grown, all service sector activities are not growing equally well. The service sector in India employs many different kinds of people. At one end there are a limited number of services that employ highly skilled and educated workers. At the other end, there are a very large number of workers engaged in services such as small shopkeepers, repair persons, transport persons, etc. These people barely manage to earn a living and yet they perform these services because no alternative opportunities for work are available to them.” 

“The life conditions of all the people in service sector are not the same.” – Comment.

Answer 1

1. Regarding service sector, limited number of skilled workers in organised sector are getting higher wages. 

2. On the other hand, the large number of unskilled workers in unorganised sector are not able to get minimum wages. They are living in miserable conditions. 

3. Self employed, shop keepers, migrant labourers etc., do not have better working conditions, regular employment and other allowances. 

4. They are being forced to continue in the same job due to the lack of required skills and alternative employment sources. 

5. By considering these situations, the government has to plan suitable programmes for the balanced development of service sector.