Economic Survey 2025: What Nirmala Sitharaman Revealed?

Introduction

Economic Survey 2024-2025 which was tabled by Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament today has projected a GDP growth rate for the next financial year at 6.3-6.8%.

Budget Main points

Economic Survey 2025 has shown growth in various sectors with good GDP in the future.

• With government efforts and the actions of monetary policy, there was a decline in retail inflation from 5.4% in FY24 to 4.9% in April- December 2024. 

• The agricultural sector has also continued to be above normal. The robust growth rate in recent years, according to the trends, has also enabled the service sector to catch up to its trend lines, because of the survey results

• Retail inflation dropped from 5.4% in FY24 to 4.9% in April to December 2024 due to government measures and the implementation of monetary policy actions. 

• The plan for movement for the next ten years for India will need high investment in infrastructure.

Economic Survey

In other words, this growth is achievable if the investment rate is boosted to 35% of GDP compared to roughly 31% at the moment. It also noted that gaining such a target will also require further development of the manufacturing sector as well as investment in new areas like AI, robotics, and biotechnology.

As the Survey stated, India will also have to create 78.5 lakh new non-farm jobs every year till 2030, achieve 100% literacy, improve the quality of education institutions, and build very high-quality infrastructure.

Conclusion

The Economic Survey 2025 underlines the indices of growth of the economy as the GDP is projected to grow between 6.3-6.8 %. Expansion of Infrastructure, manufacturing, and the rest of the technology focus areas reveal a robust model.Disclaimer
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