During 2020 - 21, when India was passing through the adverse effects of COVID-19, which one of the following sectors witnessed positive growth?

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CDS 02/2022 General Knowledge Official Paper (Held On 04 Sep 2022)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Electricity, gas, water supply, and other utility services.

Key Points

In 2020-21, electricity, gas, water supply, and other utility services were the only sub-sector that had experienced positive growth of 1.8 percent. Hence option 2 is correct.
- Electricity, Gas, Water Supply & Other Utility Services, whose GVA grew 14.3% in Q1 of 2021-22, compared to a 9.9% fall last year, was the only sector along with Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing, to recover beyond the pre-pandemic levels of 2019-20.
The contribution of mining and quarrying to India's gross value added (GVA) is 1.58% during the year 2020–2021 (April–September) as compared to 2.02% in the year 2019–2020. Its real GVA growth rate for 2020-21 was -9.2.
Financial, real estate, and professional services saw the real GVA growth rates in 2020-21 to -1.4.
Public administration, defence, and other services such as education, health, and recreation grew 5.8% but remained 5% lower than the pre-pandemic level. Its real GVA growth rate for 2020-21 was -4.1.

Additional Information

As per the System of National Accounts (SNA), gross value added, is defined as the value of output minus the value of intermediate consumption and is a measure of the contribution to GDP made by an individual producer, industry, or sector.
- At its simplest, it gives the rupee value of goods and services produced in the economy after deducting the cost of inputs and raw materials used.
As part of the data on GVA, the NSO provides both quarterly and annual estimates of output, measured by the gross value added.
The sectoral classification provides data on eight broad categories that span the gamut of goods produced and services provided in the economy. These are:
- Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing;
- Mining and Quarrying;
- Manufacturing;
- Electricity, Gas, Water Supply, and other Utility Services;
- Construction;
- Trade, Hotels, Transport, Communication, and Services related to Broadcasting;
- Financial, Real Estate and, Professional Services;
- Public Administration, Defence, and other Services.