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CEA V Anantha Nageswaran said India must urgently align AI adoption with education reform and skill development, calling for political will and national commitment to harness its benefits

Nageswaran warned that without careful and calibrated action, rapid technological change could create social and economic instability

CEA V Anantha Nageswaran says India can grow 6.8-7.2% in FY27 despite global uncertainty, citing domestic reforms, resilient consumption and strong fundamentals

Economic Survey flags behaviour, not culture, as key to urban order, showing how rule-based metro systems shape civic discipline better than laws alone

Nageswaran called for mainstream banks to not merely be spectators to the process of formalisation of the economy but to actively absorb new proven borrowers into their core portfolios

CEA also flags low to medium feasibility for indigenising battery cells & cathode materials and solar wafers & cells

Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran on Wednesday said that quality, relevance and adaptability of higher education will play a key role in transforming India's demographic dividend into growth accelerator in next 20 years. Speaking at the CII Global Higher Education Summit here, he said, states hold the key to the next phase of higher education reform in India. He stressed on addressing shortage of teachers urgently through mechanisms such as professors of practice and also improving the quality of education. Other key priorities for states include a shift from control to stewardship, moving from input-based to outcome-based regulation, adopting an entrepreneurial approach in public administration, and financing institutions based on differentiated roles and outcomes. "India is at a demographic and economic inflection point. Over the next two decades, millions of young Indians will enter the working age population. Whether this demographic dividend becomes a growth ...

India's GDP growth saw a six-quarter high of 8.2% in Q2 FY2026, increasing over the 7.8% growth seen in the first quarter of this fiscal

Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran said India's growth outlook remains strong, with Q2 momentum boosting expectations that GDP will exceed 7 per cent and cross $4 trillion this fiscal year

Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on Friday flagged the concentration of large and well-rated companies in the bond market for raising funds, and said there is a need to enable mid-sized firms to access markets "systematically and affordably". There is also a need to increase liquidity in the markets, and investors need to shed the tendency of holding papers till maturity, Nageswaran said. The "double-engine" of bond markets and bank funding will help provide the required financial support for a growing economy like India going forward, he said. Amid wider calls for self-reliance in the economic sphere, the academician-turned-policymaker made it clear that domestic money should "anchor" the funding in the Indian debt markets, and foreign flows should "complement" it. "The challenge today is not the absence of a debt market but its concentration. Large and highly rated firms raise capital with ease. The task ahead is to enable mid-sized corporates, infrastructure SPVs, sup

Nageswaran noted that the country should register growth and progress with the environment taken into account

India's chief economic adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran says IPOs are increasingly helping early investors exit rather than supporting long-term capital formation

At Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit 2025, Nageswaran said that inflation and the rupee are stable, and fiscal discipline keeps deficits and borrowing costs under control

Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on Wednesday said the Indian economy has responded quite satisfactorily to global headwinds, and exuded confidence that real GDP growth is likely to touch 7 per cent in FY26. Speaking at the India Maritime Week here, Nageswaran said three global rating agencies have recently upgraded their ratings on India, and if the country continues on the same track, India can "soon" break into the 'A' rating category. The academic-turned-policy advisor said the resilience shown by the economy, coupled with measures by the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), places the Indian economy in a "comfortable position". "We should be quite satisfied with the way the Indian economy has responded to global uncertainties this year, and the tariff-related developments as well," he said. The policy measures, including relief in income tax and the recent GST rationalization "have combined to improve the economic growth prospects for this year to near or

CEA V Anantha Nageswaran said India's Q1 growth momentum will continue into Q2 FY26, with GST reforms lifting demand, fiscal deficit on track, and borrowing plans unchanged

CEA chairperson Ghanshayam Prasad said India will add 2.8 GW pumped hydro annually till 2027 and over 10 GW a year from 2028-29 to reach 57 GW capacity by 2032

Chief Economic Adviser Anantha Nageswaran said the GST reforms would help counter the effect of US tariffs by stimulating domestic demand and mitigating risks to capital formation

TCS has partnered with French research institute CEA to co-develop Physical AI solutions combining robotics and AI to boost efficiency, resilience, and automation

V Anantha Nageswaran warns prolonged US tariffs pose a major risk to growth, but remains confident of meeting India's 6.3-6.8 per cent GDP target for FY26

The CEA said that while it was difficult to calculate the precise impact of the US tariff on the growth at this point, the removal of uncertainty can unleash higher growth in the coming quarters