STATISTICS OF FACTORIES 2002

C H A P T E R – 2

DISTRIBUTION OF FACTORIES

2.1   The details of data relating to the total number of factories on register, at the beginning of the year, the number of factories registered and de-registered during the year, number of working factories with average daily employment, number of factories submitting returns by size of employment, number of days worked and their distribution by public and private sectors are being presented in this chapter. 

2.2   The details of registered factories by States/Union Territories for the year 2002 have been presented in Table 1.1. Table shows that the total number of factories on register rose by 2.36 per cent from 159762 in the beginning of 2002 to 163534 at the end of 2002. While 8506 new factories were registered during 2002, the number of factories de-registered from the register during the same period was 4734.  Of the total number of factories on register at the end of the year 2002, 86.27 per cent factories were reported as working.

2.3   Number of working factories and average daily employment by States and Industries for the year 2002 has been projected in Table 1.2. During 2002, the industry group ‘Manufacture of Food Products and Beverages’ (Industry Code 15) accounted for 21.55 per cent of the total number of working factories, followed by ‘Manufacture of Wood and  Products of wood and cork, except furniture; Manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials’ (Industry Code 20)which accounted for 10.84 per cent.

2.4   The number of factories carrying on operations declared dangerous under Section 87 of the Factories Act, 1948 by States and by Industries have been shown in Tables 1.3 and 1.4 respectively. The proportion of average daily number of workers employed in dangerous operations to total average daily number of workers employed in working factories worked out to be 15.03 per cent in the year 2002.  As revealed from Table 1.3, the maximum number of factories carrying dangerous activities were found in Tamil Nadu, followed by Assam.

2.5   The employers of registered factories are required to submit annual returns in the prescribed proforma to the Chief Inspector of Factories of their respective States/UnionTerritories, who, in turn furnish the consolidated data in respect of the entire State/Union Territory in the prescribed proformae to the Labour Bureau. Some of the factories however do not submit their returns. Thus the factories are divided into two categories (i) those submitting returns and (ii) others not-submitting returns. The data on working factories submitting returns are given in Table 1.1. It will be seen from this Table that 40.42 per cent, of the total number of working factories submitted the prescribed annual returns under the Factories Act, 1948 in the year 2002.

2.6   Distribution of working factories submitting returns by size of employment during the years 2000 to 2002 has been given in Table A below which shows that the percentage of factories employing less then 50 workers was the maximum, as was during the previous years.

TABLE -A

 Distribution of Factories Submitting Returns by Size of Employment

2.7    The distribution of working factories submitting returns according to number of days actually worked during the years 2000 to 2002 is presented in Table B. It shows that more than 76 per cent of total number of factories submitting returns worked for more than 240 days during 2002. The trend is similar to the previous years.

TABLE - B

 Distribution of working factories submitting returns according to number of days worked

2.8    Distribution of working factories by sectors during 2002 has been presented in Table C.

TABLE - C

Distribution of working factories by sectors during 2002

NOTE: The State/U.T of Haryana & Pondicherry have been excluded as the sector wise break up is not available.