Budget 2026 News

Eco Survey calls for debt market reforms, suggests tax, regulatory fixes

Indian households have embraced equities, extending that confidence to debt markets "next frontier"

Labour Codes to promote gender parity, workforce formalisation: Eco Survey

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

Signalling of PPPs as 'asset selling' driving investors away: Eco Survey

PPP models need to reduce structural uncertainty, need more private investment in greenfield projects

Insolvency tribunals may take a decade to clear pending cases: Eco Survey

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

Eco Survey calls for Swadeshi push, warns against high-tariff protectionism

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

Economic Survey says India's semiconductor, electronics push augurs well

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

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

Govt notifies coking coal as critical mineral to cut import dependence

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

Eco Survey: Undervalued rupee cushions trade, investor hesitation persists

India's inflation rate will likely be higher in FY27 than in FY26

West Bengal's NSDP grows 9.86% in 2024-25, slower than neighbours

However, West Bengal trailed behind other major states in terms of percentage growth at current prices

₹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

India's AI strategy must be grounded in its economic realities: Eco Survey

Chasing scale, building large LLMs for their own sake not useful for India, says Economic Survey

High cost of capital constraining pvt investment, growth: Eco Survey

For India to finance sustained growth, it must strengthen long-term capital markets as bond market currently is shallow, illiquid

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

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

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

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

Economic Survey: Tariff skew undercuts electronics manufacturing ambitions

Survey backs industry demand to fix inverted duty structure

UPI sustainability hinges on incentives, continued investment: Eco Survey

The survey added that complementary investments in digital capabilities and institutional capacities should be a priority to expand gains from digital payments

Eco Survey proposes redefining 'govt company' to ease CPSE stake dilution

Economic Survey suggests redefining 'government company' to allow 26% state ownership, enabling deeper CPSE disinvestment and stronger equity monetisation