As many as 2.63 crore houses have been constructed for the poor in the last nine years under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana, according to the Economic Survey released on Monday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday presented the Union Budget 2024-25 after the Cabinet gave its approval.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday asserted that the Economic Survey 2023-24 tabled by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on Monday is far from the ground reality.
The Economic Survey 2023-24 tabled in Parliament today highlighted that India, despite making significant strides in climate action, often faces criticism for not aligning with Western solutions.
The overall trade deficit reduced from $121.6 billion in FY23 to $78.1 billion in FY24.
The survey highlighted that conservative budget assumptions provided a buffer during global uncertainties. The resilience in the fiscal performance was due to a recovery in economic activity and buoyancy in revenues.
The survey said that India's economic recovery from the Covid pandemic is complete and the economy is expected to grow in the range of 6 percent to 6.8 percent
Sitharaman will lay the document in the Lok Sabha after the conclusion of President Droupadi Murmu's address to both Houses of Parliament.
On the whole, the understanding, vision and erudition of the Economic Survey disappoints neither the student nor the seasoned economist. The Survey would, indeed, have been priceless, had it not obscured its perspicacity and scholarship by brevity and circumspection at crucial junctures
The Economic Survey favours economic growth over distributive justice, ignoring the fact that in recent times, the fruits of our progress have gone disproportionately to the rich and in fact, the spending power of the poor has declined sharply
