The Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) is an important survey of the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), MOS&PI and NSSO(FOD) conducts its field work. It is a statutory survey conducted under the provisions of the Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 and rules[COS Act] framed there under in 1959. In respect of the State of Jammu & Kashmir, the survey is conducted under the provisions of J&K Collection of Statistics Act, 1961 (XXIII of 1961) and J&K Collection of Statistics Rules 1964.

The Deputy Director General, NSSO (FOD), New Delhi has been appointed as the Statistics Authority (SA) under Section 4 of the Act vide Govt. of India, Ministry of Statistics & PI Notification No: SO 923(E) dated 12^th August, 2004. The SA is empowered by the act to collect and authorize officials to collect information from any industrial and commercial concern.

The ASI provides data on various vital aspects of the registered manufacturing sector for use in the estimation of national income, studies of industrial structure and policy formulation. It generates data on input, output, employment, wage bill, capital formation etc., on an annual basis.

The survey period of ASI 2007-08 extends from September 2008 to April 2009 with reference to the financial year 2007-08 60794 units are to be surveyed under ASI during 2007- 08 in accordance with the methodology and the formats for data collection finalised by the Standing Committee on Industrial Statistics (SCIS).

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