Economic Survey 2016 Highlights and PDF download

Ahead of the Union Budget on Monday, FM Arun Jaitley tabled Economic Survey 2016 report today; Which opens with “Amidst gloomy international economic landscape, India stands as a haven of stability “.

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Index of the Survey

Volume 1 

• Economic Outlook, Prospects, and Policy Challenges
• The Chakravyuha Challenge of the Indian Economy
• Spreading Jam across India’s Economy
• Agriculture: More from Less
• Mother and Child
• Bounties for the Well-Off
• Fiscal Capacity for the 21st Century
• Preferential Trade Agreements
• The Fertiliser Sector
• Structural Changes in India’s Labour Markets
• Powering “One India”

Volume 2 

• State of the Economy: an overview
• Public Finance
• Monetary Management and Financial Intermediation
• External Sector
• Prices, Agriculture and Food Management
• Industrial, Corporate, and Infrastructure Performance
• Services Sector
• Climate Change and Sustainable Development
• Social Infrastructure, Employment and Human Development

Economic Survey 2015-16 Expects

• GDP growth rate for 2015-16 in the range of 7 % to 7.75 %
• Increase in wages under 7th pay commission are unlikely to destabilize prices & will have little impact on inflation
• Recognition, Recapitalization, Resolution, & Reform needed to resolve Twin Balance Sheet challenge of PSBs & corporate firms
• Govt will meet its fiscal deficit target of 3.9 per cent of GDP, continuing the commitment to fiscal consolidation
• According to IMF Fiscal deficit is expected to decline from 4.2 % of GDP in 2014-15 to 4.0 % of GDP in 2015-16
• Current Account Deficit has declined and foreign exchange reserves have risen to US$ 351.5 billion in early Feb,16

Useful Info Graphic on Economic Survey 2016-17

PIB Articles on Economic survey

• The Chakravyuha Challenge: Ease to enter, barriers to exit
• 4 R : Recognition, Recapitalization, Resolution, and reform
• Spreading Jam across India’s Economy
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• Economic Survey 2015-16: Better off taking the benefit of subsidies; recommends interventions and rectification of anomalies
• Indian Equity Market Relatively Resilient Compared to Other Major Emerging Market Economies, says the Economy Survey
• Several Initiatives Taken Would Help Transforming Infrastructure Sector ; Results Achieving & Sustaining Higher Economic Growth
• Impressive strides made in the power sector in the last two years: addition of record generation capacity, moves towards one market in power, reform of discoms and development of renewable energy
• Spreading Jam across India’s Economy
• Fiscal Deficit target of 3.9% for 2015-16 seems Achievable, says the Economic Survey
• India Ranks First in Milk Production, Accounting for 18.5 Per Cent of World Production
• Economic Survey 2015-16 : Amidst Gloomy International Economic Landscape, India Stands as a haven of Stability;
• Reform Package of the Fertilizer Sector
• Agriculture Sector needs a Transformation to ensure Sustainable Livelihoods for the Farmers and Food Security
• Labour Force participation Rate higher in Rural Areas than Urban Areas,