India
is 13th in services output. The services sector provides employment to 23% of
the work force and is growing quickly, with a growth rate of 7.5% in 1991–2000,
up from 4.5% in 1951–80. There are different Sectors in India. It has the largest share in the GDP, accounting for
55% in 2007, up from 15% in 1950. Information technology and business process
outsourcing are among the fastest growing sectors, having a cumulative growth
rate of revenue 33.6% between 1997–98 and 2002–03 and contributing to 25% of
the country's total exports in 2007–08. The growth in the IT sector which became a top Business in India is
attributed to increased specialisation, and an availability of a large pool of
low cost, highly skilled, educated and fluent English-speaking workers, on the
supply side, matched on the demand side by increased demand from foreign
consumers interested in India's service exports, or those looking to outsource
their operations. The share of the Indian IT industry in the country's GDP
increased from 4.8 % in 2005–06 to 7% in 2008. In 2009, seven Indian firms
were listed among the top 15 technology outsourcing companies in the world.
India ranks second worldwide in farm
output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing
accounted for 15.7% of the GDP in 2009–10, employed 52.1% of the total
workforce, and despite a steady decline of its share in the GDP, is still the
largest economic sector and a significant piece of the overall socio-economic
development of India. Yields per unit area of all crops have grown since 1950,
due to the special emphasis placed on agriculture in the five-year plans and
steady improvements in irrigation, latest technology news, application of modern
agricultural practices and provision of agricultural credit and subsidies since
the Green Revolution in India. However, international comparisons reveal the
average yield in India is generally 30% to 50% of the highest average yield in
the world. Indian states
Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, West
Bengal and Maharashtra are key agricultural contributing states of India.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi nationalized
14 banks in 1969, followed by six others in 1980, and made it mandatory for
banks to provide 40% of their net credit to priority sectors like agriculture,small-scale Business, retail news in trade, small businesses, etc. to ensure that the
banks fulfill their social and developmental goals. Since then, the number of
bank branches has increased from 8,260 in 1969 to 72,170 in 2007 and the
population covered by a branch decreased from 63,800 to 15,000 during the same
period. The total bank deposits increased from 5,910 crore (US$1.12 billion) in 1970–71 to 3,830,922 crore (US$727.88 billion) in
2008–09. Despite an increase of rural branches, from 1,860 or 22% of the total
number of branches in 1969 to 30,590 or 42% in 2007, only 32,270 out of 500,000
villages are covered by a scheduled bank.
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