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BANKING TRADE AND COMMERCE
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section ii-TRADE AND COMMERCE
Extent of Employment
Trade and commerce provide employment to a small percentage of population in the district. As per the occupational classification in 1961 Census, 13,552 persons are enumerated as sales workers in Yeotmal district. The following table gives the statistics of the employment in the various groups of sales
workers in 1961.
TABLE No. 10
EXTENT OF EMPLOYMENT IN 1961 IN YEOTMAL DISTRICT
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Occupational Group |
Persons |
Males |
Females | |
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
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(1) |
Working proprietors, wholesale trade |
164 |
161 |
3 |
|
(2) |
Working proprietors, retail trade |
8,411 |
7,813 |
598 |
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(3) |
Commercial travellers and manufacturers' agents |
1,000 |
1,000 |
-- |
|
(4) |
Salesmen and shop assistants, wholesale and retail trade |
1,415 |
1,364 |
51 |
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(5) |
Salesmen, shop assistants and related workers |
841 |
785 |
56 |
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(6) |
Hawkers, pedlars and street vendors |
1,656 |
1,087 |
569 |
As per the Standard Industrial Classification of 1961, the number of persons engaged in trade and commerce in the district is 15,939, of which 7,687 or 48.23 per cent are in rural areas and 8,252 or 51.77 per cent are in urban areas. Trade and commerce account for 2.68 per cent of the total working population. Darwha, Yeotmal and Pusad tahsils contain 22.54 per cent, 23.75 per cent and 22.75 per cent, respectively of the total in the district.
Of the workers in trade and commerce, 92.80 per cent are in retail trade, 4.34 per cent in wholesale trade and 2.86 per cent in miscellaneous groups. About 93 per cent of the wholesalers are enumerated in urban areas. The number of wholesalers dealing exclusively in cereals and pulses is recorded to be 102. Mostly the wholesale trade in cereals and pulses appears to be combined with that in gul, sugar, spices, oils, etc., as the number of this group is recorded to be 168 for the district.
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