India - Annual Survey of Industries: 2012-13

Start	End	Cycle
2013-09-01	2014-03-31	N/A

Statutory return submitted by factories as well as Face to Face
ASI Schedule has two parts: Part-I and Part-II. Part-I of ASI schedule aims to collect data on assets and liabilities, employment and labour cost, receipts, expenses, input items – indigenous and imported, products and by-products, distributive expenses etc. Part-II of ASI schedule aims to collect data on different aspects of labour statistics, namely, working days, mandays worked, absenteeism, labour turnover, manhours worked, earning and social security benefits.
Annual Survey of Industries Questionnaire is divided into different blocks:

BLOCK A.IDENTIFICATION BLOCK - This block has been designed to collect the descriptive identification of the sample enterprise. The items are mostly self-explanatory.

BLOCK B. TO BE FILLED BY OWNER OF THE FACTORY - This block has been designed to collect the particulars of the sample enterprise. This point onwards, all the facts and figures in this return are to be filled in by owner of the factory.

BLOCK C: FIXED ASSETS - Fixed assets are of a permanent nature having a productive life of more than one year, which is meant for earning revenue directly or indirectly and not for the purpose of sale in ordinary course of business. They include assets used for production, transportation, living or recreational facilities, hospital, school, etc. Intangible fixed assets like goodwill, preliminary expenses including drawing and design etc are excluded for the purpose of ASI. The fixed assets have, at the start of their functions, a definite value, which decreases with wear and tear. The original cost less depreciation indicates that part of value of fixed assets, which has not yet been transferred to the output. This value is called the residual value. The value of a fixed asset, which has completed its theoretical working life should always be recorded as Re.1/-. The revalued value is considered now. But depreciation will be taken on original cost and not on revalued cost.

BLOCK D: WORKING CAPITAL & LOANS - Working capital represents the excess of total current assets over total current liabilities.

BLOCK E : EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR COST - Particulars in this block should relate to all persons who work in and for the establishment including working proprietors and active business partners and unpaid family workers. However, Directors of incorporated enterprises who are paid solely for their attendance at meeting of the Board of Directors are to be excluded.

BLOCK F : OTHER EXPENSES - This block includes the cost of other inputs as both the industrial and nonindustrial service rendered by others, which are paid by the factory and most of which are reflected in the ex-factory value of its production during the accounting year.

BLOCK G : OTHER INCOMES - In this block, information on other output/receipts is to be reported.

BLOCK H: INPUT ITEMS (indigenous items consumed) - This block covers all those goods (raw materials, components, chemicals, packing material, etc.), which entered into the production process of the factory during the accounting year. Any material used in the production of fixed assets (including construction work) for the factory's own use should also be included. All intermediate products consumed during the year are to be excluded. Intermediate products are those, which are produced by the factory but are, subjected to further manufacture. For example, in a cotton textile mill, yarn is produced from raw cotton and the same yarn is again used for manufacture of cloth. An intermediate product may also be a final product in the same factory. For example, if the yarn produced by the factory is sold as yarn, it becomes a final product and not an intermediate product. If however, a part of the yarn produced by a factory is consumed by it for manufacture of cloth, that part of the yarn so used will be an intermediate product.

BLOCK I: INPUT ITEMS – directly imported items only (consumed) - Information in this block is to be reported for all imported items consumed. The items are to be imported by the factory directly or otherwise. The instructions for filling up of this block are same as those for Block H. All imported goods irrespective of whether they are imported directly by the unit or not, should be recorded in Block I. Moreover, any imported item, irrespective of whether it is a basic item for manufacturing or not, should be recorded in Block I. Hence 'consumable stores' or 'packing items', if imported, should be recorded in Block I and not in Block H.

BLOCK J: PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS (manufactured by the unit) - In this block information like quantity manufactured, quantity sold, gross sale value, excise duty, sales tax paid and other distributive expenses, per unit net sale value and ex-factory value of output will be furnished by the factory item by item. If the distributive expenses are not available product-wise, the details may be given on the basis of reasonable estimation.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Field Operation Division, NSSO	NSSO( FOD)	Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

NSSO under the the Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India is responsible for supervision of data collection.

The entire field work pertaining to central sample of Annual Survey of Industries is undertaken by the Field Operations Division (FOD) of NSSO. The ASI fieldwork is to be done by the Superintending Officers (S.Os) while the headquarters of FOD is responsible for the overall planning and execution of field work, control and monitoring of the progress at all India level, the Deputy Director Generals of the six Zonal Offices co-ordinate and monitor the progress in their jurisdiction. Planning and execution of the field work in the jurisdiction of Regional Office is the responsibility of the Regional Head.

Due to the introduction of Web Portal for collection, compilation and dissemination of ASI data, the entire operation will be web-based, and functions and operations as defined in the Operational Manual of ASI web portal. However, keeping in view that the existing practices and procedures will be followed for some more time either by FOD or by DES.

There is an in-built system of providing training to all Superintending Officers (S.Os) in the technique of conducting ASI work. Zonal training centres set up at Jaipur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Bangalore, Kolkata and Guwahati each headed by a Deputy Director General are responsible for providing training on ASI to S.Os. In these centers, special intensive courses of training on ASI are organised, in addition to other regular training programmes. This is apart from the training imparted to the S.Os in the Sub-Regional and Regional Offices before entrusting them with the actual field work

ASI is a time-bound survey. It is therefore extremely important to complete the entire fieldwork in the prescribed timeframe. For this purpose allotment to be made to the available number of S.Os in all the sub-regional offices/notional sub-regional offices at Regional Headquarters. In allotting the ASI factories among the S.Os, it is to be ensured that the total workload (including that of Agricultural Statistics work) per S.Os is as balanced and equitable as possible. This should be done after a proper assessment of size, location, geographical contiguity and the experience of the worker to the extent possible. It is also envisaged that at the time of allotting factories to the S.Os. the jurisdiction and factories be rotated among the S.Os in each SRO, as per the work allocation instructions issued by the Headquarters.