60. Which organisation issued the October 2025 study on GVA trends and state-level differences in India’s services sector?
[RRB Group D – 23 December 2025]
(A) Reserve Bank of India
(B) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
(C) Ministry of Finance
(D) NITI Aayog
Answer: (D) NITI Aayog
Explanation: NITI Aayog issued the cited analytical study of the services sector. Its emphasis on state-level differences highlights how activities such as financial services, trade and information technology vary across regions, even while services form a substantial component of national output.
59. In recent years, which sector has contributed the largest share to India’s GDP?
[UPPSC LT Grade Teacher – 6 December 2025]
(A) Large-scale industries
(B) Services
(C) Small and cottage industries
(D) Agriculture
Answer: (B) Services
Explanation: Services are the largest broad contributor to India’s national output, encompassing trade, finance, transport, communications and professional activities. Employment shares are different from output shares; the primary sector can employ many people despite producing a smaller share of value added.
58. Tourism falls under which broad category of economic activity?
[RRB NTPC UG – 29 August 2025]
(A) Secondary
(B) Tertiary
(C) Quinary
(D) Primary
Answer: (B) Tertiary
Explanation: Travel planning, hotels, guiding, transport and related hospitality provide services to visitors. Their output is the delivery of an experience or assistance rather than the extraction of resources or production of physical merchandise. Tourism therefore belongs to the tertiary economy.
57. Which other name is commonly used for tertiary economic activities?
[RRB NTPC UG – 9 September 2025]
(A) Service sector
(B) Health sector alone
(C) Industrial sector
(D) Agricultural sector
Answer: (A) Service sector
Explanation: Tertiary activities supply services used by households and businesses, including retailing, education, banking and transport. The term service sector covers this range. It is broader than healthcare alone and distinct from primary extraction and secondary manufacturing activities.
56. Which sequence best represents the broad historical transition in sectoral economic importance?
[RRB NTPC Graduate – 16 June 2025]
(A) Tertiary → Primary → Secondary
(B) Primary → Secondary → Tertiary
(C) Secondary → Primary → Tertiary
(D) Tertiary → Secondary → Primary
Answer: (B) Primary → Secondary → Tertiary
Explanation: A common structural-transformation model traces development from agriculture to industry and then towards services. India’s own path has been more service-led than that simple sequence suggests, but the conventional ordering of primary, secondary and tertiary sectors is the exam answer.
55. Which of these occupations is an example of a tertiary-sector activity?
[RRB NTPC UG – 14 August 2025]
(A) Manufacturing
(B) Mining
(C) Teaching
(D) Farming
Answer: (C) Teaching
Explanation: Teaching provides educational services and human-capital formation. Unlike mining or farming it does not primarily extract resources, and unlike manufacturing it does not principally transform physical inputs into goods. Educational institutions therefore operate within the tertiary or service sector.
54. Which of these activities is part of the services sector?
[RPF Constable – 12 March 2025]
(A) Banking
(B) Mining
(C) Farming
(D) Construction
Answer: (A) Banking
Explanation: Banking provides deposit, lending, payment and other financial services. Mining and farming extract or grow primary products, while construction builds physical structures and is generally placed within industry. Banking consequently belongs to the tertiary sector.
53. Education, health services and banking all fall under which broad sector?
[RPF Constable – 3 March 2025]
(A) Secondary
(B) Quaternary
(C) Tertiary
(D) Primary
Answer: (C) Tertiary
Explanation: These activities deliver expertise or services to people rather than manufacturing goods. Education develops skills, healthcare treats patients and banking intermediates finance. The three-sector framework groups all these under tertiary activity, even if specialised classifications subdivide knowledge-intensive services further.
52. What are the three major activity-based sectors used to classify the Indian economy?
[RPF Constable – 5 March 2025]
(A) Primary, secondary and tertiary
(B) Farming, manufacturing and trade
(C) Agriculture, industry and services
(D) Agriculture, finance and technology
Answer: (A) Primary, secondary and tertiary
Explanation: The standard activity classification names the sectors primary, secondary and tertiary. Agriculture, industry and services are broad descriptions of them, but the formal three-sector terminology is the set listed in the first option. The classification is based on production functions.
51. HDFC Bank’s GIGA offering launched in 2024 was designed especially for whom?
[RPF Constable – 3 March 2025]
(A) Gig workers and freelancers
(B) Corporate salaried staff
(C) Small farmers
(D) Merit-scholarship students
Answer: (A) Gig workers and freelancers
Explanation: The GIGA suite was created for gig workers and freelancers, who often receive variable income and need flexible banking products. The move illustrates how conventional financial institutions are adapting credit and account services to platform-mediated and independent forms of employment.
