As the Census Data of 2001 reveal, 64% or 2/3rd of the population in India is engaged in the primary sector i.e., agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and fishing etc.
People engaged in secondary activities share only 13% and those engaged in tertiary activities (i.e. service sector) share 20% of the population. Quaternary activities have been recently identified hence, their share is hardly 2 or 3 per cent in the total population of India. In this dismal scenario, it needs change due to following reasons:
(a) Our landholdings are too small to bear the burden of 64% population in primary activities.
(b) The minimal share of people in secondary and tertiary activities (i.e. 13% and 20%) cannot support the national economy to make India a developed country.
(c) In an era of growing comfortable and luxurious needs, India cannot produce goods through her 13% people to meet the demands of more than a billion people. It is therefore compelled to import which disrupts its B.O.P.
(d) Being lower capacity of manufacture, the supply- demand gap is widening and it gives birth to much inflation i.e., spiraling prices of goods in indigenous market. The graph of poverty is thus increasing day to day.