<h1>Statutory CAPEX data collection under the Collection of Statistics Act reveals private sector investment trends with confidentiality safeguards.</h1> The National Statistical Office conducted a Forward Looking Survey under the Collection of Statistics Act, 2008 to estimate private corporate sector CAPEX trends for recent years and intended spending, targeting large enterprises via a stratified census-plus-sample frame from MCA registers and using a secure web portal; results show rising gross fixed assets and elevated intended CAPEX for 2024 25 concentrated in machinery and manufacturing, while methodological caveats-moderate response rates, excluded SPVs, reporting errors, and respondent caution-mean findings are experimental and subject to refinement, with unit data remaining confidential.