Employment In Informal Sector Grows 10%, Says Government Survey
The informal sector witnessed a 10% increase in employment to over 12 crore during the year ended September 2024, while the number of establishments rose 12% to 7.34 crore, according to a survey by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. In the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises for 2023–24 — also called ASUSE 2023–24 — data were collected from a total of 4,98,024 establishments (2,73,085 in rural and 2,24,939 in urban) from 16,842 surveyed FSUs (8,523.