Different aspects of official industrial statistics in India for the organised/unorganised and large/medium/smallscale units in the industrial sector are collected from/by five different agencies – the Annual Survey of Industries, the Follow-up Establishment Surveys of the Economic Census, census-cum-surveys of small-scale industries, the Central Statistical Organisation’s Index of Industrial Production and the occasional Economic Census. This paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of these statistics and suggests possible improvements.