India: Govt. Releases Provisional Results of Annual Survey of Industries 2009-2010

New Delhi (PIB) - Provisional results of Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2009-10, conducted by Central Statistics Office and National Sample Survey Office under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation have been released. The survey provides information on factories registered under Factories Act, 1948 and Bidi and Cigar establishments registered under the Bidi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966. Field work for the survey was carried out during 2010-11 throughout the country with a reference period coinciding with the fiscal year 2009-2010. Total sample size for the survey was 61,080 which represented about 30% of the total population and was drawn adopting stratified circular sampling procedure.  

Number of factories

Total number of estimated factories is 1, 58,877, which is 2.3% higher than that of the last year. Among the industries, highest number of factories is observed in ‘Food products’, which accounts for about 16.5% of the total factories in all industries followed by ‘Other non-metallic mineral products’ (11%) and ‘Textiles’(8.4%). Among the states, highest number of factories is observed in Tamil Nadu (16.9%), followed by Maharashtra (12.2%), Andhra Pradesh (10.8%), Gujarat (9.8%) and Uttar Pradesh (6.9%).

Fixed Capital

At all India level, fixed capital in current prices has grown by 28% as against 25% in the last year. In constant prices (2004-05), the growth remains 25% in 2009-2010 as against 18% in the previous year. Highest fixed capital is observed in the ‘Basic Metal’ industry (21%), followed by ‘Coke and Refined Petroleum Products’ (10.7%). At state level, Gujarat has the highest fixed capital share (17.7%), followed by Maharashtra (14.6%), Tamil Nadu (9.8%), Andhra Pradesh (9.6%) and Karnataka (7.1%).

Employment and Emoluments

Employment in terms of total persons engaged has increased by 4.1% at all India, over the previous year, whereas the emolument (compensation) to employees has increased by 13.6% in current prices and 11.1% in real terms. Among all industries, ‘Food products’ generated the highest employment (12.5%), followed by ‘Textiles’ (11.7%) , ‘Basic metals’ (7.6%), ‘Wearing apparel’ (7.3%) and ‘Other non-metallic mineral products’ (6.8%).  

In terms of emoluments or compensation to employees, ‘Basic Metal’ has the highest share (10.1%) followed by ‘Machinery and equipments’ (8.5%), ‘Food products’ (8%), ‘Textiles’ (7.7%) and ‘Motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers’(7.5%). Among the states, top five positions in term of compensation have been occupied by Maharashtra (19.1%), Tamil Nadu (14.3%), Gujarat (10.6%), Andhra Pradesh (7.3%) and Karnataka (7.1%).

Gross Value Added (GVA)

The gross value added has grown by 12.4% in current prices and 10% in constant (2004-05) prices. The corresponding growth in GVA in 2008-09 over 2007-08 was 10.6% and 4% respectively. By type of industry, the first three positions in terms of gross value addition have been occupied by ‘Basic Metals’ (13%) ‘Chemicals and chemical products’ (10%) and ‘Coke and Refined Petroleum Products’ (8%) respectively.  

  

Structural Ratios and Technical Coefficients

A few structural ratios and technical coefficients derived from the macro level estimates of principal characteristics for the current and the preceding four years have been given in Annexure-II.

The survey results revealed that in 2009-10, a factory with an average investment of Rs. 851 Lakhs in fixed capital have provided gainful employment to 74 persons, produced goods and services at ex-factory prices worth Rs. 2,343 Lakhs and contributed by way of net value added by manufacture Rs. 366 Lakhs to the national income. However, taking an employee as a unit of measurement, the survey revealed that an employee in the organized manufacturing sector during 2009-10 has, on an average, worked with a fixed capital stock of Rs. 11,45,888, gave an output of Rs. 31,56,818 and contributed to the national income by way of net value added by manufacture Rs. 4,93,541. The corresponding averages in the preceding year were, respectively, Rs. 9,32,216, Rs. 28,89,254 and Rs. 4,65,916.

The capital output ratio which is a measure of the capital required to produce one unit of net output (net value added) has increased from 1.98 in 2008-09 to 2.32 in 2009-10. The capital required to produce one unit of gross output has also increased from 0.32 in 2008-09 to 0.36 in 2009-10. Level of efficiency (ratio of net value added to gross output) has, however, remained at the same level (0.16). While the average number of employee working per factory has marginally increased from 73 in 2008-09 to 74 in 2009-10, average emoluments per employee has increased from Rs. 1,14,272 to Rs. 1,24,664 in current prices during the same period. Fuel consumed to produce one unit of output, however, marginally decreased to 0.04 in 2009-10 from 0.05 in 2008-09.