registered under the Bidi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966. All the
      electricity undertakings engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity,
      not registered with the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) are also covered under ASI.
           However defence establishments, oil storage and distribution depots, departmental units
      such as railway workshops, government mints, sanitary, water supply, gas storage, etc., are
      excluded from the purview of the survey. The coverage of AS1 has further been extended
      beyond the purview of the Section 2m (i) and 2m (ii) of the Factories Act, 1948 and the Bidi and
      Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966. To start with, the units with 100 or more
      employees, not registered under Section 2m (i) and 2m (ii) of the Factories Act, 1948 but
      registered under any of the seven Acts/Board/Authority viz., Companies Act. 1956, Factories
      Act. 1948, Shops and Commercial Establishment Act, Societies Registration Act, Cooperative
      Societies Act, Khadi and Village Industries Board, Directorate of Industries (District Industries
      Centre) in the Business Register of Establishments (BRE) are considered. Such units have been
      included from the BRE of Andhra Pradesh in AS1 2014-15 and from the BREs of Manipur,
      Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan in AS1 2015-
      16.
      Index of Industrial Production
           Index of Industrial Production (IIP) is released by CSO every month in the form of Quick
      Estimates with a time-lag of 6 weeks as per the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS)
      norms of IMF. The base year of all-India IIP was revised from 2004-05 to 2011-12 and the new
      series was launched in 2017. IIP is compiled using secondary data received from 14 source
      agencies in various ministries/departments or their attached/subordinate offices. Apart from
      breakup of the index in three sectors, viz., mining, manufacturing and electricity, the estimates
      are also simultaneously released as per use-based classification viz., primary goods, intermediate
      goods, infrastructure construction goods and consumer durables and consumer non-durables. The
      Quick Estimates are subsequently revised as first Revision after one month from release on
      receipt of updated production data from the 14 source agencies. Subsequently, the indices are
      again revised after two months from first Revision. The major source of data for IIP is the
      Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion that supplies data for 322 out of 407 item groups
      with a weight of 47.54 per cent in overall IIP.
           Till July 2018, IIP has been released up to the month of May 2018 as per the actual release
      calendar. The annual IIP increased by 4.3 per cent in 2017-18 as compared to a growth of 4.6 per
      cent in 2016-17. During this period electricity sector registered an annual growth of 5.4 per cent
      as compared to 5.8 per cent during 2016-17. Mining and manufacturing sectors registered annual
      growths of 2.3 per cent and 5.4 per cent respectively during 2017-18 as compared to 5.3 per cent
      and 4.4 per cent growths in 2016-17.
           As per the use-based categories, primary goods, capital goods, intermediate goods and
      infrastructure/construction goods registered annual growth rates of 3.7 per cent, 3.7 per cent, 2.3
      per cent and 5.6 per cent respectively during 2017-18 as against 4.9 per cent, 3.2 per cent, 3.3 per
      cent and 3.9 per cent during 2016-17. Consumer durables registered a growth of 0.7 per cent
      during 2017-18 as compared to 2.9 per cent in 2016-17 while Consumer non-durables registered
      a growth of 4.3 per cent during 2017-18 as compared to 4.6 per cent in 2016-17.
      National Sample Survey Office