Indian households have embraced equities, extending that confidence to debt markets "next frontier"
New Labour Codes are expected to boost women's workforce participation, narrow wage gaps and accelerate labour market formalisation, the Economic Survey 2025-26 said
PPP models need to reduce structural uncertainty, need more private investment in greenfield projects
The Economic Survey warns India's insolvency tribunals could take nearly a decade to clear pending cases, flagging long delays as a key risk to the IBC regime
The Economic Survey calls a Swadeshi push inevitable amid export controls and tech denials, but warns against high tariffs and indiscriminate import substitution that hurt competitiveness
These initiatives, the survey said, position India among a relatively small group of middle-income, industrialising economies that are steadily moving towards sophisticated production structures
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
The Centre has notified coking coal as a critical mineral to speed up mining, attract private investment, and cut India's heavy dependence on imports for steelmaking
India's inflation rate will likely be higher in FY27 than in FY26
However, West Bengal trailed behind other major states in terms of percentage growth at current prices
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
Chasing scale, building large LLMs for their own sake not useful for India, says Economic Survey
For India to finance sustained growth, it must strengthen long-term capital markets as bond market currently is shallow, illiquid
Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, regularly counts India among its largest user bases, along with Alphabet's YouTube
Cross-subsidisation involves charging higher tariffs to industrial and commercial power consumers to offset lower tariffs for domestic and agricultural users
Cross-subsidisation involves charging higher tariffs to industrial and commercial power consumers to offset lower tariffs for domestic and agricultural users
Maharashtra's ₹330 crore Defence & Aerospace Venture Fund (MDAVF), launched in 2018, aims to catalyse manufacturing capabilities among MSMEs in strategic, high-growth sectors
Survey backs industry demand to fix inverted duty structure
The survey added that complementary investments in digital capabilities and institutional capacities should be a priority to expand gains from digital payments
Economic Survey suggests redefining 'government company' to allow 26% state ownership, enabling deeper CPSE disinvestment and stronger equity monetisation