India - Annual Survey of Industries: 2011-12

Start	End	Cycle
2012-09-01	2013-03-31	N/A

Statutory return submitted by factories as well as Face to FaceASI 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 byproducts, 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, man-hours worked, earning and social security benefits.

The major additions and deletions of items in ASI 2010-11 schedules in comparison to ASI 2009-10 schedules are given below.

(a) Information on 'How many total number of units the company has' collected in Block B of ASI 2009-10 has been dropped.
(b) Information on 'Original value of investment in plant and machinery (range code)' collected in Block B of ASI 2009-10 has been dropped. Information on 'Subsidy' will be additionally collected in Block-G.
(c) Item codes in Blocks H, I and J are now to be reported as per NPCMS, 2011 instead of ASICC.

The Joint Return should only be compiled in the following cases:
(i) The units must be having the same State code;
(ii) The units should have the same management;
(iii) Separate unit-wise accounts are not available and only combined accounts are available;
(iv) Resources that go into the manufacturing activity in the units are not separately identifiable;
(v) The units may not have the same industry group at 4 digit NIC level, but satisfy the aforementioned conditions. However, all the units included in Joint Return must be engaged in manufacturing and if the combined accounts include other activities, those should be excluded.

In no case a unit belonging of Census Sector will be the joint unit with a unit of Sample Sector. If such a situation arises due to augmentation of frame in respect of the units pertaining to the supplementary frame, information pertaining to the Sample Sector unit(s) needs to be suitably apportioned and separate return should be filled in for each of them. Please note that in case of sample sector the number of units will be always 1.
Block A, item 12: status of units: This item will be recorded in codes. The
number of „status of unit? codes used in ASI - being too many – has been rationalised and
are given below:
Open ........ ................................ ............................... 1,
Closed (for less than or equal to 3 years)........................ 2,
NOP (for less than or equal to 3 years)............................. 3,
Deleted ............... ................. ........................ ......... .... 4,
Existing but non-response due to closure and
owner / occupier is not traceable............. .......... ........... 5
Non-response due to non-existence and owner not traceable
(incl. the case of non-existent for more than 3 years) ........... 6
Non-response due to production not yet started or accounting year not closed during the year .................. .............. 7
Non-response due to other reasons [incl. relevant records are with Court / Income tax or recalcitrant/refuse to submit the return, or factory under prosecution in respect of earlier ASI].... .................... 8
Deleted due to any other reason (incl. de-registration; out of coverage i.e. defence, oil storage, technical training Institute etc. and hotel , etc; and other reason) .............. .......... ... ....................... 9

The following may be noted:
A unit is considered to be closed if the unit is maintaining staff but not having production. Such units will be assigned code 2 only if the information in respect
of assets, employee etc. are available. On the other hand, if the unit is existing but no information is available due to closure and owner/occupier is not traceable, the
unit will be assigned the code 5.

A unit is considered to be Non Operating (NOP) if the unit remained closed for 3 consecutive years or it has no production and not maintaining the staff. A NOP
unit will be assigned code 3 only if the information in respect of assets, etc. are available. Else it will be assigned code 5.

A unit is considered for deletion and code 4 will be assigned if the unit is having continuous status of NOP for three years or more, and proposed by FOD for
deletion from the frame.

Code 7 will be assigned in the cases where a new unit has not started its production or did not close the account during the accounting year.

No code other than the codes 1-9 can be given here. In no case this item will be left blank.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 collection of statistics act and rules framed there under has been revised. As per revised rules 2011 under the Collection of Statistical Act 2008, the consultation of Nodal Officer of Central Government is mandatory for conducting any Survey (Section 5[2]). The Nodal Officer is a designated Officer, not below the rank of Joint Secretary, Government of India of nodal department dealing with Statistical matters, for exercising powers and performing duties under these rules (Section 3[1]). Now under the revised rules (Rule 7), a Statistics Officer for a specified period and specified territory is required to be appointed (Section 4 of the revised Act 2008) to conduct the Survey. The statistics Officer is empowered by the Act (Sub-section 4 or 6 of Section 4 of the Act) to collect or authorize officials to collect information from any industrial and commercial concern.
Scrutiny
Scrutiny of the filled-in-returns is another important measure for maintaining quality of ASI data. It also facilitates taking immediate steps to apprise the concerned field worker about the mistakes committed by him. Therefore, the scrutiny work is to be taken up immediately after the Supdt. / Sr.Supdts has submitted the schedules to the concerned Supdt. / Sr. Supdt. He/She should scrutinise thoroughly all the returns submitted by each Superintendents/ Sr.Supdts in accordance with the scrutiny instructions issued by the headquarters from time to time. Superintendents/ Sr.Supdts is required to note down the scrutiny points including arithmetical check, identification details/discrepancies noticed with the help of the attached Investigator on the prescribed scrutiny sheet. The Superintendents/ Sr.Supdts are required to furnish the
clarifications on the scrutiny points promptly. On receipt of the clarifications, the concerned officers should examine and incorporate corrections, if any, in the returns and attach the clarification with the office copy.
All the errors or mistakes observed during the course of scrutiny in a month should be discussed in the monthly meeting for the benefit of all the field staff. All Group A officers are also required to super scrutinise atleast the prescribed number of returns pertaining to their region in an ASI. The errors and mistakes observed during the course of scrutiny/inspection may be analyzed and documented by the Superintendents/ Sr.Supdts of SRO / NSRO and a monthly feed-back be sent to Zonal Office by the Regional Office who will arrange to issue consolidated feed-back reports based on scrutiny, inspection etc.

All Regional Heads have to ensure that all schedules are thoroughly scrutinized before dispatch to Tabulating Agencies. In order to improve the effectiveness of scrutiny in the context of ensuring better reliability and accuracy of data, the active involvement of Headquarters and Zonal Offices have been actively involved in the super scrutiny of ASI returns.

All the Regional Offices are required to send for super scrutiny top ten returns (in terms of workers) to the Headquarters Office, New Delhi. The next top 50 returns (in terms of workers) of each Regional Office will be scrutinized at the concerned Zonal Office. The Regional Office will send copies (not originals) of the returns, balance sheet, P&L Account, Schedules and working sheets to the concerned offices accordingly. For expeditious completion of the process of scrutiny and updation the concerned offices shall correspond with each other through e-mail / fax/ speed post. It may be ensured that the returns to be scrutinized by Headquarters / ZO
The original returns after the completion of the scrutiny process and updation, where necessary will have to be dispatched by the concerned ROs to the TAs.
In addition to the above, the Zonal Offices may take steps to scrutinize top 2 returns (in terms of employment) of each charge at the NSROs/SROs under their jurisdiction not covered through (i) above.