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City Development Plan for Allahabad Final Report
4.3 Dominant
Activities
Category of
Workers
Main Workers
Marginal
Workers
Table 12: Main Workers Classified by Category
Area
Cultivator
s
Agricultur
e
Labour
Household
Industry Others
Allahabad
(MC+OG
) 2613 1318 14084 202162
MCA 2522 1240 13627 193931
Allahabad
(MC+OG
) 456 1373 5126 32902
MCA 438 1325 4954 31560
Source: Census of India 2001
Table 11 gives the break-up of workers by sex in the various categories –
main-, marginal- and non-worker categories at both MCA and agglomeration
levels. These figures are further distributed into cultivators, agriculture labour,
household industry and others in Table 12. The distribution of main and
marginal workers across various categories indicates heavy employment to the
tune of 92% and 83% of main and marginal workers respectively in ‘others’
category (Figure 9).
Figure 9: Distribution of Main & Marginal Workers Across Categories
92%
1%
1% 6%
Main Workers
Cuiltivators
Agriculture labour
1% 3%
Table 13 reveals that for the past many years the city’s economy has been
thriving on the tertiary sector activities.
The workforce in the city has been increasing at a constant pace. The primary
economy of the city 10 is dependent on the services (tertiary) sector with major
contributions from trade and commerce and other services. Table 14 gives
break-up of workforce into different economic sector and depicts decadal
increase in the same over the past three decades. Figures 10, 11, 12 & 13 trace
decadal growth of workforce in different sectors.
83%
Household Industry
others
Architect cum Planning
Assistant
20
13%