Launch of the first ever Annual Survey of Incorporated Services Sector Enterprises (ASISSE)

• First-ever pan-India annual survey dedicated to the incorporated (corporate) services sector, launched by the National Statistical Office (NSO) under MoSPI in April 2026 with reference year FY 2024-25.
• Plugs a long-standing data gap: India had the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) for manufacturing and ASUSE for the unincorporated sector, but no annual official frame for incorporated services — a sector contributing >50% of GVA.
• Uses the GSTN database as the sampling frame — a landmark methodological shift toward administrative-data-driven official statistics.
• Relevance for UPSC: GS-III (Indian Economy, Growth), GS-II (Governance — data systems), Prelims (schemes/surveys of MoSPI).