Economic Survey says India witnessed improved monetary policy transmission
New Delhi: The monetary policy was significantly eased from March 2020 onwards owing to the unprecedented COVID 19 pandemic and remained accommodative in 2020, states the Economic Survey.
New Delhi: India’s agricultural sector has shown its resilience amid the adversities of COVID-19 induced lockdowns.
Economic Survey strongly recommends increase in public health spending from 1% to 2.5-3% of GDP
New Delhi: The Economic Survey 2020-21 has strongly recommended an increase in public spending on healthcare services from 1 percent to 2.5-3 percent of GDP, as envisaged in the National Health Policy 2017.
India to grow at 11.5 pc in FY 21-22, predicts Economic Survey
New Delhi/UNI: India's gross domestic product will grow at 11.5 per cent in fiscal 2021-22, projects the Economic Survey 2020-21 that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled in Parliament on Friday.
New Delhi: The Economic Survey 2020-21 says that going forward, as food inflation eases further, overall inflation is expected to moderate.
Odisha’s GSDP declines in 2018-19 owing to lower agriculture production: Economic Survey
Bhubaneswar/UNI: The Real Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) growth of Odisha in 2019-20 declined compared to the growth in 2018-19 due lower agriculture production and deceleration in mining and manufacturing.
CEA KV Subramanian lists out 10 major focus areas of Economic Survey to put economy back on track
New Delhi/IBNS: Chief Economic Adviser KV Subramanian on Friday listed the major interventions made by the Modi government to put economy on track while stating that India is undergoing economic slowdown and part of it is due to the global slowdown that started in 2019.
Sitharaman tables Economic Survey in Parliament, growth predicted at 6-6.5% in next fiscal year
New Delhi/IBNS: The growth in the next fiscal year beginning on Apr 1 is predicted at 6 per cent to 6.5% as Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey on the first day of budget session in Parliament on Friday.
New Delhi, July 4 (IBNS): A day ahead of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday tabled the Economic Survey which has given a call for a sustained 8% growth rate for India to become a USD 5 Trillion Economy by 2024-25. The government forecast the real GDP growth for the year to 7% percent this year, while being wary of checking the fiscal deficit.
Govt projects GDP at 7 per cent for 2019-20
New Delhi, Jul 4 (UNI/IBNS): The Union government on Thursday projected the real GDP growth for the year 2019-20 at 7 per cent on the back of anticipated pickup in the growth of investment and acceleration in the growth of consumption.
Demonitisation has helped share of financial saving rise, says Economic Survey
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IBNS): The highlights of the Investment and Savings situation as brought out by Economic Survey 2017-18 tabled in Parliament today are as follows:
GST data reveals 50% increase in number of Indirect Taxpayers
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IBNS): A preliminary analysis of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) data reveals that there has been a 50% increase in the number of indirect taxpayers, besides a large increase in voluntary registrations, especially by small enterprises that buy from large enterprises and want to avail themselves of Input Tax Credits (ITC).
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IBNS): Economic Survey for 2017-18 has brought out areas of concern such as rising non-performing assets of the public sector banks and has underlined the need, rightly so, for putting maximum emphasis on creating new jobs, agriculture and education, said ASSOCHAM President Sandeep Jajodia.
New estimates of labour migration in India have revealed that inter-state labor mobility is significantly higher than previous estimates. This was stated in the Economic Survey 2016-17 presented by the Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley in the Parliament today. The study based on the analyses of new data sources and new methodologies also shows that the migration is accelerating and was particularly pronounced for females. The data sources used for the study are the 2011 Census and railway passenger traffic flows of the Ministry of Railways and new methodologies including the Cohort-based Migration Metric (CMM) .