For the first time, the government is preparing to systematically measure digital adoption among India’s unincorporated enterprises—tracking everything from e-commerce activity and social-media use to UPI payments and digital bookkeeping. The new framework will debut in the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE), scheduled to begin in January 2026.

A draft schedule released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) outlines a structured attempt to capture the technological and transactional behaviour of informal enterprises, which constitute the bulk of India’s non-agricultural economic activity. This marks a shift from earlier surveys that focused primarily on employment, fixed assets and operational metrics, with only limited questions on com

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