CORE Services as the Economy's High-Value Layer
Services Sector Share in GVA (FY 2024-25) is the macro entry point for this topic. The Economic Survey 2024-25 states that services rose from 50.6 percent of total GVA at current prices in FY14 to about 55 percent in FY25, while providing employment to about 30 percent of the workforce. That contrast explains why services cannot be read like agriculture or manufacturing: a high value-added share comes from finance, professional services, trade, hotels, transport, communication, public administration and software exports, not from a proportionate labour share. Rajasthan's service base makes the same point at state scale. Jaipur concentrates finance, health, education and logistics services; Udaipur, Jaisalmer and Jodhpur add tourism; and Kota supplies education-linked urban services. The tourism and transport pieces connect directly with energy because hotels, rail movement, highway traffic and urban water supply all depend on reliable electricity and logistics. Services also carry exports: the RBI's 2023-24 survey recorded software services exports at US$ 190.7 billion, with computer services and business-process outsourcing as the core components. The IT-BPM Industry — Services Export (FY 2023-24) anchor should therefore be placed beside tourism and logistics, not outside the economy chapter. A clean reading is that services create value through networks. Power networks enable digital and urban services, transport networks move people and goods, and payment and data systems reduce transaction costs. When a Rajasthan hotel receives a foreign tourist, a Jaipur software firm exports a contract, or a logistics warehouse near Neemrana handles freight, the service-sector number is being produced through infrastructure.