Delhi Industry Survey: Assessing Manufacturing Sector

New Delhi, Apr 17 (PTI) The Delhi government will initiate an annual industry survey in the national capital later this month to assess the manufacturing sector's status and future planning, officials said on Friday.

The industrial units, covered by different Acts, will furnish information in a prescribed format between April and September this year, according to a gazette notification issued last week by the Planning Department of the Delhi government.

The survey will cover the factories and establishments registered under the Factories Act 1948, Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966, Companies Act, 2013, Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, Societies Registration Act, Cooperative Societies Act, Khadi and Village Industries Board and Directorate of Industries (District Industries Centre).

The industrial survey is a valuable resource for policymakers and planners as it provides insights into capital formation and structure, employment patterns, input and output, value addition through various manufacturing activities, officials said.

The survey will cover the period between April 2024 and March 2025.


Under the exercise, two sets of questions have been designed for collecting information.

The first set of questions will be based on the assets and liabilities of units, employment and labour costs, receipts, expenses, input items - indigenous and imported, products and by-products, and distributive expenses, among others.

The second set of questions will be related to information on different aspects of labour statistics, like working days, mandays worked, absenteeism, labour turnover, man-hours worked, earnings and social security benefits, stated the notification.

The statistics officials will make field visits to verify the information furnished by a unit, by going through business records and other records of the unit and seek clarifications, at the premises where such records are kept, from the owner or manager of the enterprise.

The last annual survey of industries in Delhi revealed that the number of factories in operation decreased by 12 per cent from 2,407 in 2020-21 to 2,115 in 2021-22.