Sectors of the Indian Economy

Why this chapter matters for UPSC: The chapter supplies the terms that GS3 questions on the economy take for granted: primary, secondary and tertiary sectors; final and intermediate goods; GDP and GVA; disguised unemployment; organised and unorganised work; public and private sectors. Its central finding, that India's output moved to services while most workers stayed in agriculture, underlies Mains questions on jobless growth, manufacturing's share of output, informal work and the Labour Codes.

Contemporary hook: In 2025-26 the tertiary sector produced 54.0% of India's gross value added (GVA) at current prices, the secondary sector 25.9% and the primary sector 20.1% (National Accounts Statistics 2026, provisional estimates). In 2025 agriculture still employed 43.0% of India's workers (Periodic Labour Force Survey, January-December 2025). On 1 July 2026 the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 came into force across rural India and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 stood repealed; the guarantee rose from 100 to 125 days of work a year.

🧠 First Principles — Read This First

Sectors are groups made for a purpose. NCERT classifies economic activities in three ways: by the nature of the activity (primary, secondary, tertiary), by the conditions of employment (organised, unorganised) and by who owns the assets (public, private). "The criterion for classification could be many depending on what we desire to find out."

Count values, and count only final goods. You cannot add cars to nails, so economists add the values of goods and services. The wheat a farmer sells to a mill and the flour the mill sells to a biscuit maker are already inside the price of the biscuits; counting them again would mean "counting the value of the same things a number of times".

Output moved; jobs did not. Between 1977-78 and 2017-18 the tertiary sector overtook the primary sector in production, yet the primary sector "continues to be the largest employer even now". NCERT's reason: "not enough jobs were created in the secondary and tertiary sectors."

Working is not the same as being fully employed. When five members of a family work a plot that needs fewer hands, everyone is busy but nobody is fully employed. This is underemployment, or disguised unemployment: take some workers away and output does not fall.

Most Indians work without security. The unorganised sector, of "small and scattered units which are largely outside the control of the government", employs most of India's workers. Creating work and protecting these workers is the chapter's case for an employment guarantee and for a public sector.

PART 1 — Quick Reference

Table 1: The three sectors (NCERT's definitions)

Source: NCERT, Understanding Economic Development, Class X, ch. 2 "Sectors of the Indian Economy", Reprint 2026-27, p. 20. The tertiary sector also "includes some essential services that may not directly help in the production of goods", such as teaching, medicine and administration.

Table 2: How the sectors depend on each other (NCERT Table 2.1)

Source: NCERT, ch. 2, Reprint 2026-27, p. 21. NCERT fills in only the first row and leaves the rest to the student; the entries in the last column for rows 2-4 are ours. NCERT's point is that the three sectors "are highly interdependent".

Table 3: Share of employment, 1977-78 and 2017-18 (NCERT Graph 3)

Source: NCERT, ch. 2, Reprint 2026-27, p. 25, Graph 3 "Share of Sectors in Employment (%)". NCERT's employment figures come from the five-yearly employment surveys of the National Sample Survey Organisation, now the National Statistical Office (teachers' note, p. 18). Graph 2 on the same page, "Share of Sectors in GVA", prints no values. Read from its bars and from Graph 1, the primary sector's share of GVA was between two-fifths and a half in 1977-78 and about a fifth in 2017-18, and the tertiary sector's share in 2017-18 was a little over half (NCERT's own Exercise 2(d) answer is 50 to 60 per cent). So over forty years the primary sector's share of output fell much faster than its share of jobs: this is what Table 2.2 asks students to find.

Table 4: The three sectors in GVA, 2025-26 (National Accounts Statistics 2026)

Source: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), National Accounts Statistics 2026, Statement 8.17.2 (provisional estimates; 2025-26 figures are provisional, 2024-25 first revised) and Statement 8.17.1. Sub-sector shares in brackets are at current prices. Shares are our arithmetic from the Statement's rupee values. NCERT's graphs stop at 2017-18 and use the older 2011-12 price base; the national accounts now use 2022-23 as the base year, so the two sets of figures are not directly comparable. The tertiary sector's share was a little over half in NCERT's 2017-18 graph and is 54% in 2025-26.

Table 5: Where India's workers are, 2024 and 2025 (PLFS)

Source: MoSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Annual Report 2025, press note (released 27 March 2026), Fig. 5 "Percentage distribution of workers (in usual status) by industry"; workers aged 15 and above, usual status (principal and subsidiary), January-December 2025. The press note also counts 61.6 crore employed persons aged 15 and above (41.6 crore men, 20.0 crore women). The sector totals in italics are our sums of the press note's rows. Set beside Table 4, about 43% of workers produce about a fifth of GVA, the same gap NCERT describes, narrower than in 1977-78 but not closed.

Table 6: Organised and unorganised workers in the late 1990s (NCERT Table 2.3, completed)

Source: NCERT, ch. 2, Reprint 2026-27, p. 31. NCERT leaves the primary total, the unorganised total, the grand total and the percentages blank; they are worked out here. Of agricultural (primary) workers, 232 of 233 million, or 99.6%, were in the unorganised sector. NCERT gives no source for the table.

Table 7: From MGNREGA to VB-G RAM G

Source: NCERT, ch. 2, Reprint 2026-27, p. 29. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, Schedule II (Ministry of Rural Development text). Press Information Bureau, backgrounder on VB-G RAM G, 11 May 2026. NCERT says "In 2025, this Act was replaced by" the new law: the new Act is of 2025, but it came into force, and MGNREGA was repealed, only on 1 July 2026. NCERT shortens the name to "Viksit Bharat-G RAM G 2025", leaving out "(Gramin)".

Table 8: The laws NCERT names for the organised sector, and where they are now

Source: NCERT, ch. 2, Reprint 2026-27, p. 30. Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Labour and Employment, 21 November 2025 (the four Codes, including the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, made effective from 21 November 2025, "rationalising 29 existing labour laws"). Ministry of Labour and Employment, Annual Report 2025-26, para 1.3 and the chapters on each Code: the Code on Wages was notified on 8 August 2019 and the other three on 29 September 2020; draft Rules under all four were published for comments on 30 December 2025.

PART 2 — Concepts & Narrative

Sectors of economic activities

NCERT begins with pictures of people at work: some produce goods, others services. To make sense of so many activities, we "group them (classify them) using some important criterion. These groups are also called sectors." Table 1 gives NCERT's first classification. The primary sector depends "mainly, but not entirely, on natural factors like rainfall, sunshine and climate"; the secondary sector makes products that are "not produced by nature but has to be made"; the tertiary sector generates "services rather than goods". In recent times, NCERT adds, "certain new services based on information technology" have become important.

The three are linked (Table 2). A mill needs sugarcane; a farmer needs fertiliser, pumpsets and electricity from industry; both need trucks, godowns and banks.

Comparing the three sectors: values, final goods and GDP

How do we add up "cars and computers and nails and furniture"? We add their values. If 10,000 kg of wheat sells at Rs 20 per kg, its value is Rs 2,00,000; 5,000 coconuts at Rs 15 each are worth Rs 75,000. The values of goods and services in all three sectors are calculated and added.

But "It makes sense only to include the final goods and services." A farmer sells wheat to a flour mill at Rs 20 per kg; the mill sells flour to a biscuit company at Rs 25 per kg; the company adds sugar and oil and sells four packets of biscuits for Rs 80. "Intermediate goods are used up in producing final goods and services." The Rs 80 "already includes the value of flour (Rs 25)", so counting the flour and wheat again would count the same things "a number of times".

"The value of final goods and services produced in each sector during a particular year provides the total production of the sector for that year." The sum across sectors is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In India the "mammoth task" of measuring it is done by a central government ministry, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, with the help of State and Union Territory departments.

Historical change in sectors

In the histories of the now-developed countries, NCERT says, the primary sector came first. As farming improved, it produced more food than before, and people took up crafts, trade, transport and administration. "Over a long time (more than hundred years)", new methods of manufacturing brought factories, people moved from farms to factories, and the secondary sector "gradually became the most important in total production and employment". Then: "In the past 100 years, there has been a further shift from secondary to tertiary sector in developed countries." In those countries the service sector is now the largest in production and in employment.

Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors in India

Graph 1 shows production in the three sectors in 1977-78 and 2017-18, years NCERT chose "because the data are comparable and authentic". Over these forty years production rose in all three sectors but "it has increased the most in the tertiary sector", so that in 2017-18 the tertiary sector "has emerged as the largest producing sector in India replacing the primary sector."

NCERT gives four reasons for the rise of services:

1. Basic services. Hospitals, schools, post and telegraph, police, courts, municipal bodies, defence, transport, banks and insurance are needed in every country, and in a developing country "the government has to take responsibility for the provision of these services."
2. Support for other sectors. "Greater the development of the primary and secondary sectors, more would be the demand for such services" as transport, trade and storage.
3. Rising incomes. As incomes rise, some people demand "eating out, tourism, shopping, private hospitals, private schools, professional training etc."
4. New services. Services based on information and communication technology "have become important and essential" (chapter 4 returns to these).

NCERT adds a warning: "not all of the service sector is growing equally well." A limited number of services employ highly skilled and educated workers; at the other end, "a very large number of workers" such as small shopkeepers, repair persons and transport persons "barely manage to earn a living". So "only a part of this sector is growing in importance."

Where are most of the people employed?

"A remarkable fact about India is that while there has been a change in the share of the three sectors in GVA, a similar shift has not taken place in employment." In Graph 3, the primary sector's share of employment fell from 71% to 44% between 1977-78 and 2017-18, but it is still the largest employer (Table 3). NCERT's explanation: industrial output went up "by more than nine times" while industrial employment rose "around three times", and service production rose 14 times while service employment rose "around five times".

Underemployment: Laxmi's farm

Laxmi owns "about two hectares of unirrigated land", depends on rain and grows jowar and arhar. All five members of her family work the plot through the year because "They have nowhere else to go for work." Everyone is working, but "their labour effort gets divided. Each one is doing some work but no one is fully employed." If a landlord, Sukhram, hires one or two of them, or two find work in a factory, the family earns more and the farm produces as much as before.

"This is the situation of underemployment, where people are apparently working but all of them are made to work less than their potential." Because it is hidden, unlike someone who has no job at all, "it is also called disguised unemployment." It is not only rural: there are "thousands of casual workers in the service sector in urban areas who search for daily employment", painters, plumbers and repair persons who do not find work every day, and street sellers who spend the whole day and earn very little.

How to create more employment

NCERT works through Laxmi's case:

• Irrigation. A well, paid for by the government or a bank loan, lets her grow a second crop, wheat, in the rabi season. If one hectare of wheat employs two people for 50 days, two more family members get work on her own field. A dam and canals for many farms would create still more work within agriculture.
• Roads, transport and storage. If farmers produce more, they must sell it; better rural roads, transport and storage create work for farmers and for people in transport and trade.
• Cheap credit. Without it Laxmi borrows from moneylenders "and pay a high rate of interest"; a local bank lending at a reasonable rate lets her buy seeds, fertiliser and pumpsets in time (chapter 3 takes this up).
• Industries and services in semi-rural areas. A dal mill for arhar and chickpea, a cold storage for potatoes and onions, honey collection centres near forests, and units that process vegetables and fruit.
• Education, health and tourism. NCERT notes that "about 60 per cent of the population belongs to the age group 5-29 years" and only about 51 per cent of them attend educational institutions. A study by the erstwhile Planning Commission (now NITI Aayog) estimated that "nearly 20 lakh jobs can be created in the education sector alone", and that an improved tourism sector could give additional employment every year to "more than 35 lakh people". NCERT dates neither figure.

These take time, so "For the short-term, we need some quick measures." The Union Government "made a law implementing the Right to Work in about 625 districts of India": MGNREGA, 2005. Under it, those willing and in need of work in rural areas "were guaranteed 100 days of employment in a year", with an unemployment allowance if the government failed to provide work, and preference for works that "would in future help to increase the production from land". NCERT then adds: "In 2025, this Act was replaced by Viksit Bharat- Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Viksit Bharat-G RAM G 2025)."

Organised and unorganised sectors

The second classification looks at how people are employed. "Organised sector covers those enterprises or places of work where the terms of employment are regular and therefore, people have assured work." These enterprises are registered by the government and follow rules given in laws "such as the Factories Act, Minimum Wages Act, Payment of Gratuity Act, Shops and Establishments Act etc." Their workers have security of employment and fixed hours, are paid overtime, and get "paid leave, payment during holidays, provident fund, gratuity etc.", with pensions on retirement.

"The unorganised sector is characterised by small and scattered units which are largely outside the control of the government. There are rules and regulations but these are not followed." Jobs are low-paid and irregular, with no overtime, paid leave or sick leave, and people "can be asked to leave without any reason." The sector also includes the self-employed, such as street sellers, repair workers and farmers.

NCERT's pair makes it concrete. Kanta works in an office from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., is paid monthly, gets provident fund, medical and other allowances and a paid Sunday, and was given an appointment letter. Kamal, her neighbour, is a daily wage labourer in a grocery shop from 7:30 in the morning till 8:00 p.m., is not paid for days he does not work, has no letter of employment and "can be asked to leave anytime by his employer."

How to protect workers in the unorganised sector

Organised jobs are the "most sought-after", but "the employment opportunities in the organised sector have been expanding very slowly." Some organised enterprises operate in the unorganised sector "to evade taxes and refuse to follow laws that protect labourers", and "Since the 1990s, it is also common to see a large number of workers losing their jobs in the organised sector."

Who needs protection? In rural areas, landless agricultural labourers, small and marginal farmers, sharecroppers and artisans; "Nearly 80 per cent of rural households in India are in small and marginal farmer category." They need timely seeds, inputs, credit, storage and marketing outlets. In urban areas, workers in small-scale industry, casual workers in construction, trade and transport, street vendors, head-load workers, garment makers and rag pickers. And a majority of workers from scheduled castes, tribes and backward communities are in the unorganised sector, where they face social discrimination as well as low and irregular pay. "Protection and support to the unorganised sector workers is thus necessary for both economic and social development."

Public and private sectors

The third classification is by ownership. "In the public sector, the government owns most of the assets and provides all the services." In the private sector, assets and services are "in the hands of private individuals or companies". NCERT's examples: Railways or the post office (public); Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited (TISCO) or Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) (private). Private activity is "guided by the motive to earn profits"; "The purpose of the public sector is not just to earn profits."

Why does government spend? First, some things society needs cost more than private firms can raise, and charging thousands of users is hard: roads, bridges, railways, harbours, electricity, irrigation through dams. Second, some activities need support: electricity sold at cost could shut down small units, so government supplies it at rates they can afford; it buys wheat and rice from farmers at a 'fair price' and sells them more cheaply through ration shops, supporting "both farmers and consumers". Third, some things are the government's primary responsibility, health and education above all. NCERT notes that "nearly half of India's children are malnourished and a quarter of them are critically ill", and that "The infant mortality rate of Odisha (36) or Madhya Pradesh (43) is higher than some of the poorest regions of the world."

What the pre-2023 edition said

The argument is the same; the data and some wording differ. In the 2020-21 edition:

• Output graphs. Graph 1 was "GDP by Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sectors" and Graph 2 "Share of Sectors in GDP (%)", for 1973-74 and 2013-14; Question 4 asked "What was the GDP of India in 2013-14?". Graph 3 (employment) already used 1977-78 and 2017-18.
• Teachers' note. The data were "Gross Domestic Product at Factor Cost by Industry of Origin at 2011–12 prices", taken from the Real Time Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy (the RBI's).
• Table 2.2 column: "Share in GDP". Table 2.3 had no "late 1990s" label and no tertiary total.
• MGNREGA. "the central government in India made a law implementing the Right to Work in about 625 districts"; workers "are guaranteed 100 days of employment"; no replacing Act. Exercise 17 read "Explain the objective of implementing the NREGA 2005."
• Infant mortality. "Odisha (41) or Madhya Pradesh (47)".
• Exercise 24. GDP for 2000 (Rs 52,000, 48,500 and 1,33,500 crore) and 2013 (Rs 8,00,500, 10,74,000 and 38,68,000 crore).

Source: NCERT, Understanding Economic Development, Class X, ch. 2, 2020-21 edition (as archived by the Wayback Machine, 9 October 2021).

PART 3 — UPSC Integration

Frames for Mains Answers

1. "Why has India's growth not created enough jobs?" NCERT's core finding: output shifted to services, employment did not (71% to 44% in the primary sector over forty years, Graph 3). In 2025-26 the primary sector produced about a fifth of GVA (NAS 2026) while agriculture held 43.0% of workers (PLFS 2025). Add NCERT's warning that only part of the service sector is growing well, and its remedies: irrigation, rural roads and storage, cheap credit, agro-processing in semi-rural areas.

2. "Disguised unemployment in Indian agriculture." Define it with NCERT's test (move workers out and output does not fall); use Laxmi's farm; extend to urban casual work; link to the rural employment guarantee as a short-term measure and to non-farm jobs as the long-term one.

3. "Informalisation and the protection of unorganised workers." About 83% of workers were unorganised in the late 1990s (NCERT Table 2.3); the self-employed were 56.2% of workers and regular wage or salaried workers 23.6% in 2025 (PLFS). Protection: the Labour Codes in force from 21 November 2025, e-Shram (31.89 crore registrations by 18 August 2026), support for small and marginal farmers and small-scale industry.

4. "From MGNREGA to VB-G RAM G." The right-to-work idea (NCERT); 100 days and an unemployment allowance under MGNREGA; the 2025 Act in force from 1 July 2026, with 125 days in every financial year for all rural households and MGNREGA repealed from that date.

5. "Why does the government run a public sector?" NCERT's three reasons: heavy investment the private sector will not make, support for activities such as cheap electricity and food procurement, and primary duties such as health and education.

Exam Strategy

Prelims fact-traps:

• The three-sector classification uses the nature of activity; organised/unorganised uses employment conditions; public/private uses ownership of assets (NCERT Exercise 2(a)).
• GDP counts final goods and services only, produced within the country in a year. GDP = GVA + net taxes on products.
• In national accounts the primary sector includes mining and quarrying, not just agriculture (NAS 2026 Statement 8.17.2).
• PLFS 2025 is a calendar-year survey (January-December 2025), not July-June.
• VB-G RAM G: Act of 2025, in force from 1 July 2026, 125 days in every financial year for all rural households; MGNREGA repealed from 1 July 2026.
• The Labour Codes came into force on 21 November 2025, not on their enactment in 2019 and 2020.
• Disguised unemployment is hidden (people appear to work); open unemployment is visible (no job at all).

Practice Questions

Questions 1-4 are the NCERT exercise MCQs. Practice (UPSC-pattern, not past papers): questions 5-10.

1. The sectors are classified into public and private sector on the basis of:
(i) employment conditions
(ii) the nature of economic activity
(iii) ownership of enterprises
(iv) number of workers employed in the enterprise

Answer: (iii). The public sector is defined by government ownership of most assets.

2. Production of a commodity, mostly through the natural process, is an activity in ___ sector.
(i) primary
(ii) secondary
(iii) tertiary
(iv) information technology

Answer: (i).

3. GDP is the total value of ___ produced during a particular year.
(i) all goods and services
(ii) all final goods and services
(iii) all intermediate goods and services
(iv) all intermediate and final goods and services

Answer: (ii). Counting intermediate goods would count their value twice.

4. In terms of GVA the share of tertiary sector in 2017-18 is between ___ per cent.
(i) 20 to 30
(ii) 30 to 40
(iii) 50 to 60
(iv) 60 to 70

Answer: (iii), from Graph 2. In 2025-26 the share was 54.03% at current prices (NAS 2026).

5. Consider the following statements:
1. GDP is equal to GVA plus net taxes on products.
2. In National Accounts Statistics 2026, the tertiary sector's share of GVA at current prices in 2025-26 is more than half.
3. In India's national accounts, mining and quarrying is part of the secondary sector.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (a). Mining and quarrying is in the primary sector (NAS Statement 8.17.2).

6. With reference to the Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, consider the following statements:
1. Its reference period is January to December 2025.
2. Agriculture's share of workers fell below 40 per cent.
3. The unemployment rate for persons aged 15 and above in usual status was 3.1 per cent.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (c). Agriculture's share was 43.0% in 2025.

7. With reference to the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, consider the following statements:
1. It guarantees 125 days of employment in every financial year for all rural households.
2. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 stands repealed from the date it came into force.
3. It was enacted in 2026.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (a). It is an Act of 2025; it came into force on 1 July 2026.

8. Which one of the following laws is subsumed in the Code on Social Security, 2020?
(a) Factories Act, 1948
(b) Minimum Wages Act, 1948
(c) Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
(d) None of the above

Answer: (c). The Factories Act is in the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, and the Minimum Wages Act in the Code on Wages.

9. Five members of a farming family work full-time on a plot that three people could cultivate. If two of them take jobs in a factory, the farm's output stays the same. This is an example of
(a) open unemployment
(b) disguised unemployment
(c) frictional unemployment
(d) voluntary unemployment

Answer: (b). NCERT's test: moving some workers out does not reduce production.

10. "India's output has moved to services, but its workers have not moved out of agriculture." Explain why, using the latest data, and suggest ways to create more jobs outside agriculture. (250 words)

NCERT exercise (fill in the blanks, Q1): (i) has not; (ii) tertiary; (iii) organised; (iv) large; (v) natural, manufactured; (vi) interdependent.

NCERT exercise (match, Q3): 1-(d) canals for unirrigated land; 2-(c) government procurement for low crop prices; 3-(e) cheap bank credit for debt; 4-(a) agro-based mills for the off season; 5-(b) cooperative marketing societies for distress sales soon after harvest.

NCERT exercise (Q5, Surat): The missing share is 50% (100 − 15 − 15 − 20), for workers in small unregistered workshops. Offices and factories registered with the government and own shops or clinics with a formal licence are organised (15% + 15%); street, construction and domestic workers (20%) and unregistered workshops (50%) are unorganised, so 70% of Surat's workers are in the unorganised sector.

NCERT exercise (Q23, Ahmedabad, 1997-98):

The unorganised sector had about 73% of the workers but earned about 47% of the income.

NCERT exercise (Q24): Shares of GVA, our arithmetic from NCERT's table: 2001-02 primary 30.8%, secondary 24.2%, tertiary 45.0% (total ₹42,94,000 crore); 2021-22 primary 17.9%, secondary 29.3%, tertiary 52.8% (total ₹1,38,77,400 crore). The question's "2000 and 2013" are the old table's years. Conclusion: the primary sector's share fell by about 13 points in twenty years and the tertiary sector passed half.

NCERT exercise (descriptive): odd one out by sector or ownership (Q4); usefulness of the three-sector classification (Q6); why focus on employment and GVA (Q7); how the tertiary sector differs (Q9); disguised unemployment in urban and rural areas (Q10); open vs disguised unemployment (Q11); the two kinds of people in services (Q13: highly skilled workers, and those who barely earn a living); exploitation in the unorganised sector (Q14); the objective of MGNREGA 2005 or VB-G RAM G 2025 (Q17); public sector and development (Q20-21); wages, safety and health in the unorganised sector (Q22).

📦 Revision Capsule

Sources

• NCERT, Understanding Economic Development, Textbook in Economics for Class X, ch. 2 "Sectors of the Indian Economy", Reprint 2026-27 — ncert.nic.in PDF.
• NCERT, Understanding Economic Development, ch. 2, 2020-21 edition (file jess202.pdf in the whole-book zip), as archived on 9 October 2021 — Wayback Machine.
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