BANKING TRADE AND COMMERCE

TRADE AND COMMERCE

EXTENT OF EMPLOYMENT

Trade and commerce are important from the point of view of the economy of the district as they afford employment to a large number of people. As per 1971 Census the total number of persons engaged in trade and commerce in the district is 18,960 out of which 8,862 or 46.74 per cent are in rural areas and 10,098 or 53.26 per cent are in the urban areas. The proportion of the workers engaged in trade and commerce is only 2.55 per cent to that of the total number of workers in the district. Out of the total workers in trade and commerce 4.93 per cent are engaged in wholesale trade, 71.37 per cent in retail trade and 23.70 per cent in miscellaneous trade and commerce. About 73 per cent of the wholesalers are in urban areas. The wholesale trade of cereals and pulses is mostly combined with wholesale trade of gur, sugar, spices, groundnut oil, etc. The number for this group is 230 for the whole district. The following table gives the break-up of workers, in trade and commerce in the district. [Census of India, Maharashtra, 1971.]

TABLE No. 30

EMPLOYMENT IN TRADE AND COMMERCE, 1971.

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