Directorate of Information & Publicity 
DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION & PUBLICITY
GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI
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- Deputy Chief Minister releases “Sixth Economic Census, Delhi”
New Delhi: 14th March 2016
Sh. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, Government of NCT of Delhi, released the report on “Sixth Economic Census, Delhi” conducted by the Directorate of Economics & Statistics in collaboration with Central Statistics Office, Govt. of India during February to June, 2013. The 1st Economic Census was conducted in 1977, followed by 1980, 1990, 1998 & 2005. The Economic Census includes all types of entrepreneurial activities in the field of agriculture (except crop production and plantation) as well as non-agriculture (except Public Administration and Defence).
Sh. Sisodia, informed that as per 6th Economic Census there were 8.75 lakhs establishments working in Delhi during 2013 as compared to 7.58 lakhs establishments in 2005 at the time of 5th Economic Census, registering an annual growth of 1.94%. Out of 8.75 lakhs enterprises, only 12,441 (1.4%) were in the rural area and 8.63 lakhs (98.6%) were operated in the urban area.
Out of total, 4.77 lakhs (55%) of establishments were having no hired worker and remaining 3.98 lakhs (45%) having atleast one hired worker. Average number of persons employed in the establishment with hired worker worked out to 6.1 as against 1.3 in the establishments with no hired worker.
Sh. Sisodia pointed out that out of 8.75 lakhs establishments, around 7.96 lakhs (91%) establishments were under private proprietorship. Around 4.70 lakhs (53.7%) worked outside household with fixed structure and remaining 4.05 lakhs (46.3%) were operated outside household without fixed structure or inside household.
Around 7.9 lakhs (90%) of total establishments were of employment size class 1-5, followed by 57,200 (6.5%) of size class 6-9, 29,101 (3.3%) of size class 10-99 and 1,516 establishments (0.17%) were having employment 100 & more.
Sh. Sisodia informed that about 30.2 lakhs persons (27,610 in rural areas and 29.9 lakhs in urban area) were working in 8.75 lakh establishments in Delhi during 2013 with an average of 3.45 persons per establishment. Out of 30.2 lakhs of total persons, about 3.8 lakhs (12.5%) were female workers and 26.4 lakhs (87.5%) were male workers.
Sh. Sisodia pointed out that as per Economic Census the maximum number i.e. 3.7 lakh establishments (42.3%) were engaged in Trade, followed by 1.56 lakhs establishments (17.8%) in Manufacturing activity, 72,572 establishment (8.3%) in Transportation & storage and 48,051(5.5%) in Accommodation & Food service activities.
On the other hand, Manufacturing sector engaged a maximum number of 10 lakhs (33.2%) persons, followed by 8.6 lakhs (28.4%) in Trade and 1.8 lakhs (5.9%) in transportation & storage.
Sh. Sisodia pointed out that for the first time the information on Handicraft and Handloom establishments was collected in Sixth Economic Census. The total number of handicraft/handloom establishments has been reported as 9,260 with 35,553 persons engaged (an average of 3.8 workers per establishment).
Sh. Sisodia, also, informed that 70,434 (8%) of total establishments were managed by women entrepreneurs in Delhi. Around 1.6 lakh persons were employed in these establishments under women entrepreneurs.
District Central shows the highest number of establishments (1.5 lakh), followed by district West with 1.06 lakh of establishments, district North-West 93,297, district North-East 86,597, district East 80,061, district South-East 75,049, district North 73,724, district Shahdara 71,738, district South 57,126, district South- West 42,166 and the lowest in New Delhi with 38,153 establishments. In terms of number of persons employed, again, district Central excels with around 6 lakhs (19.8%) of total employment, followed by district South East with 3.5 lakhs (11.7%).
(Detail may be seen in the Report uploaded in Official Web-site http://des.delhigovt.nic.in)
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