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BANKING TRADE AND COMMERCE
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section ii- Trade and commerce
Extent of Employment.
Dhulia is affluent in trade and commerce. Being an assembling as well as distributing centre of trade, there is a large number of businessmen and graders at Dhulia and towns like Nandurbar, Dondaicha, Shahada, Taloda, Nawapur and Shirpur. Table below Extent of gives the statistics of sales workers as defined in the Census of India, Employment. 1961 Maharashtra [Vol, X, Part Il-B (II)-General Economic Tables].
TABLE No. 25.
EMPLOYMENT IN TRADE AND COMMERCE IN DHULIA DISTRICT
IN 1961 |
Category |
Total |
Males |
Females | |
Working proprietors, wholesale trade |
1.152 |
1,148 |
4 | |
Working proprietors, retail trade |
4.443 |
3.999 |
444 | |
Commercial travellers |
343 |
343 |
5 | |
Manufacturers 'agents |
246 |
242 |
4 | |
Salesmen and shop assistants, wholesale trade |
7, 549 |
6,524 |
1,025 | |
Hawkers, pedlars and street vendors |
3,618 |
2,010 |
1,608 | |
Salesmen, shop assistants and related |
870 |
827 |
43 | |
workers (not elsewhere classified). |
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Total Sales workers* |
18,429 |
15,290 |
3,139 |
*Total sales workers include insurance and real state salesmen; salesmen of securities and services, auctioneers, money-lenders and pawn brokers, besides the categories mentioned above.
This table also covers all " workers engaged in any capacity in wholesale or retail trading activity and commercial transactions relating So imports and exports......."
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