Page 3 - Latest Updates on Economic Survey
Eco Survey: Need for a policy to enable stable, better pay for gig workers
The Economic Survey calls for State support to raise gig workers' pay, curb platform dominance, and ensure stable incomes, with 40% earning under ₹15,000 a month
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Eco Survey suggests synergy between I-T & customs on related-party imports
Experts welcomed the recommendation, saying it could lower transaction costs and litigation, making India more competitive against peer economies
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Economic Survey redefines 'govt company' to ease stake dilution in CPSEs
Survey moots changes to Companies Act, so that CPSEs remain govt firms even with a 26% stake
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Economic Survey 2026: 'SMC can be model for wider regulatory reforms'
The SMC Bill has been referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, which is consulting industry participants and stakeholders, including Sebi and stock exchanges
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Metro vs road: Economic Survey 2026 flags citizen conduct dichotomy
Economic Survey explains why Indians follow rules on metros but not roads, arguing behaviour changes with system design, enforcement and social norms
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In a fragile world: Economic Survey 2026 will enable informed debates
Economic Survey 2025-26 flags stronger growth but warns that global uncertainty, fiscal discipline, and lower import protection are key to sustaining momentum
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Citizen behaviour in public systems key to shaping urbanisation: CEA
Economic Survey flags behaviour, not culture, as key to urban order, showing how rule-based metro systems shape civic discipline better than laws alone
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Economic Survey flags rising risks for startups in technology and AI
The report backs innovation as a growth driver but warns that costly capital, long-duration investments and narrow margins of safety could test India's early-stage enterprises
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Eco Survey flags need for skill courses to curb dropouts in classes 9-12
The Economic Survey 2025 calls for skill-embedded education in classes 8-12 to tackle high dropout rates driven by income pressure and limited access to secondary schools
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₹13,700 cr push lifts mobile output to ₹9.34 trillion: Eco Survey
The Survey said that the growth momentum in electronics manufacturing continued into the first half of FY'26, with electronics exports reaching $22.2 billion
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Economic Survey 2026 flags digital addiction as key challenge for India
Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, regularly counts India among its largest user bases, along with Alphabet's YouTube
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Eco Survey flags need to end power cross-subsidy, cut material intensity
Cross-subsidisation involves charging higher tariffs to industrial and commercial power consumers to offset lower tariffs for domestic and agricultural users
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Eco Survey backs Maharashtra defence, aerospace fund as innovation model
Maharashtra's ₹330 crore Defence & Aerospace Venture Fund (MDAVF), launched in 2018, aims to catalyse manufacturing capabilities among MSMEs in strategic, high-growth sectors
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Economic Survey: Tariff skew undercuts electronics manufacturing ambitions
Survey backs industry demand to fix inverted duty structure
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Economic Survey pitches Orange Economy as emerging growth lever
As per estimates of the Ministry of Tourism, travel and tourism contributed 5.22% to GDP in FY24, close to pre-pandemic levels, while supporting an estimated 8.46 crore direct and indirect jobs
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Economic Survey flags supply-side gaps hurting India's urban potential
The Economic Survey 2025-26 says India's cities drive growth but suffer from daily stress due to poor planning, overuse of private transport and fragmented governance
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Eco Survey calls to link microfinance investor exits to social metrics
Economic Survey 2025-26 urges linking microfinance investor exits to social impact metrics, warning that return-driven growth risks over-lending, borrower stress, and financial instability
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Eco Survey urges education reforms, global push to curb student exodus
India must reform higher education and promote international student programmes to curb brain drain and boost its global education presence
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Eco Survey flags restrictive land-use norms as key drag on realty supply
Restrictive land-use rules and low FSI caps are choking housing supply, turning land into dead capital and worsening affordability, the Economic Survey 2025-26 warns
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Eco Survey flags strain on grids, groundwater due to AI data centres
India's AI data centre boom risks power grid volatility and groundwater depletion, prompting calls for urgent policy on energy and water use
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