Indian SSI Sector

Performance Statistical Information SSI Units - All India
Growth of SSI Exports Prominent Association  

Overview of SSI Sector

Profile of SSIs

  Share in GDP

6.81%

  Share in Industrial Production

39.53%

  Share of Exports

35%

  Number of Items Produced

7500

  Estimated number of Units

Registered (In Lakhs)  
Unregistered (In Lakhs)  

 

15.54
98.41

  Number of Reserved items

For Exclusive Production  
For Exclusive Purchase by Govt  

 

675
358


SSI Sector in India

  • The size of the total SSI sector is estimated to be over one crore (1,05,21,190).

    About 42.26 % of these units are SSIs and the rest are SSSBEs.

  • The number of ancillaries among SSIs are 2.98%.

  • The employment per Rs. one lakh investment in fixed assets is 0.67.

  • The per unit employment is 4.48.

  • The Services Sector emerged as the dominant component in the Total SSI Sector.

Contribution of Small Scale Sector in India

The SSI Sector accounts for about 95% of industrial units in the country, 39.52% value added in manufacturing sector, 34.03% of national exports and 6.81% of GDP.

Other significant contribution can be measured as follows:

  Employment generation per
  Rs. 100,000 investments

:

4 persons

  Export as percentage of
  Fixed investment

:

49%

  Export as percentage of
  Fixed production

:

27.57%


Comparative Growth rates of SSI Sector and total Industrial Sector

  Year

  SSI Sector
%

  Industrial Sector
%

1999-00

7.09

6.70

2000-01

8.04

5.00

2001-02

6.06

2.70

2002-03

7.68

5.70

2003-04
(April-Dec)

7.57

6.09



Growth of SSI Exports

  Year

  Total Exports

  Exports from SSI

  Percentage Share

  1951-52

716

Negligible

-

  1961-62

660

Negligible

-

  1971-72

1608

155

9.6

  1976-77

5142

766

14.9

  1981-82

7809

2071

26.5

  1986-87

12567

3644

29.0

  1991-92

44040

13883

31.5

  1992-93

53688

17785

33.1

  1993-94

69547

25307

36.4

  1994-95

82674

29068

35.1

  1995-96

106353

36470

34.2

  1996-97

118817

39249

33.4

  1997-98

126286.00

44442.18

35.19

  1998-99

141603.53

48979.23

34.59

  1999-00

159561.00

54200.47

33.97

  2000-01

202509.7

69796.5

34.47

  2001-02

207745.56

71243.99

34.29

  2002-03

252789.97

86012.52

34.03

 

Capability of VSI Sector
in aiding to the growth
of GDP
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