Economic Activities Around Us

About this chapter

This Class 6 chapter explains how the activities people do for a living are classified. Activities that create monetary value are economic activities, and those sharing similar characteristics are grouped into three economic sectors. Primary-sector activities depend directly on nature to produce goods — farming, mining, fishing, raising livestock and forestry. Secondary-sector activities transform primary outputs into goods — manufacturing in factories, construction, and supplying water, electricity and gas. Tertiary-sector (service) activities support the other two — transport, banking, communication, healthcare, retail, software and warehouses. The chapter shows interdependence among the three sectors through the AMUL dairy cooperative story from Anand, Gujarat — Sardar Patel's advice, Tribhuvandas Patel and Verghese Kurien, removal of middlemen, pasteurisation, retail and export — and through how paper and textbooks are made from pulp. CTET tests definitions, sector classification of examples, cause-effect and the AMUL case. The four tests cover: Practice — recall of terms and examples; Quiz — applying classification; Hard — PYQ-style reasoning; Mastery — full-chapter mixed mock.