The Reserve Bank of India has launched the 27th round of its Order Books, Inventories and Capacity Utilisation Survey (OBICUS). The survey is for the reference period July-September 2014.

The Reserve Bank has been conducting Order Books, Inventories and Capacity Utilisation Survey (OBICUS) of the manufacturing sector on a quarterly basis. The survey seeks quantitative information on order books, inventories and capacity utilisation, such as, pending order books, backlog order books, total inventories, finished goods inventories, work in progress inventories, installed capacity, quantity produced, capacity utilisation, value of production, etc., from companies involved in manufacturing activities. The information on installed capacity, quantity produced, value of production, etc., is used for calculating the capacity utilisation at industry as well as at an all India level. The survey has been providing a significant input to the Reserve Bank in monetary policy formulation.

The salient features of  the  survey results at the aggregate  level are published  in  the  RBI  website. The  results  for  April-June 2014  (26th Round)   were published on September 30, 2014 vide Press Release No.676. A detailed annual article based on the results for the quarters October-December 2012 to July-September 2013 was published in April 2014 issue of the RBI monthly bulletin.

M/s Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd. (CMIE), Mumbai, has been mandated to conduct the survey for this quarter on behalf of the Reserve Bank of India. The major manufacturing companies will be approached by the agency during the quarter. Other manufacturing companies that are not approached by the agency can also participate in this survey round by downloading the survey schedule from the Reserve Bank’s website www.rbi.org.in. The survey schedule is placed under the head Forms and sub-head Survey. The duly authenticated filled-in survey schedule may be e-mailed or faxed to the agency as per contact details provided in the survey schedule.

In case of any query/clarification, kindly contact at the following address:

The Director, Division of Enterprise Surveys, Department of Statistics and Information Management, Reserve Bank of India, C-8, 2nd  floor, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (East), Mumbai-400051, Phone-022-26578234/35, 022-26572197; Fax- 022-26571555, E-mail.

Sangeeta Das
Director

Press Release : 2014-2015/822