Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said there are no sector-wise growth projections in the pre-Budget Economic Survey tabled in Parliament and the government itself appears to be pessimistic about the economy.
In a statement, the senior Congress leader said the findings of the economic survey 2018-19 were neither positive nor encouraging.
"It appears to me that the government, speaking through the economic survey, is pessimistic about the economy," he said.
Chidambaram said the economic survey 2018-19 is the first of the new government under Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
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