DYNAMICS OF OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE IN ZANSKAR SUB-DIVISION AND UNDERSTANDING SHIFTING OF RURAL LIVELIHOOD: A CASE STUDY OF LADAKH UNION TERRITORY, INDIA
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Occupation, rural livelihood, labour, agriculture, economy
Abstract
Work force is very important parameter of any economic structure. Workforce represents that portion of workers employed in economically useful and productive pursuits. Workers engaged in different sectors of the economy, reveal relative importance of some economic activities vis-a-vis others. In agricultural economies, the predominance of the primary sector workers shows close interaction between human activities and environment. Agriculture is single most important economic activity in Zanskar and other parts of Ladakh. Shares of secondary and tertiary workers in these rural economies, to some extent, bring out the level of economic diversification. Decline in the proportion of cultivators to the total workforce, therefore, shows economic changes in this direction. In this paper census data for 2001 and 2011 has been used to analysechanging in the occupational structure in Zanskar Sub-Division. It is found that proportion of agricultural labour, cultivators are declining significantly among persons, male and female. Village wise percentage of other workers has got increased in 2011 as compare to 2001.
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Mr Chhering Tandup
Faculty of Earth Sciences, Institute of Mountain Environment, Bhadarwah Campus, University of Jammu, Bhadarwah, Doda, Jammu and Kashmir
