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