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RBI must use reserves for domestic investment, says Economic Survey

The reserves have risen as imports contracted and the country turned surplus.

Budget to be seen as part of mini budgets of 2020, says PM Narendra Modi

Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Budget in the Lok Sabha on Monday

Roads, health care consistent priority for govt: Economic Survey

Private participation remains low, the Survey shows

A call to print more money: Economic Survey sees a 'V-shaped recovery'

Forget fiscal conservatism, turn on the fiscal taps, and ignore debt build-up, says Survey

Echoes from the Mahabharata to a new index: A few nuggets from Eco Survey

Stringent lockdown at the very onset of the pandemic enabled flattening of the pandemic curve and provided necessary time to ramp up the health and testing infrastructure

Economic survey 2020-21: Forget rating agencies, spend without fear

Government spending becomes imperative at the time of excessive risk aversion in the private sector

Tight regulation vs discretion: Economic Survey pitches for transparency

"The reality of incomplete contracts leads to inevitability of incomplete regulation. This makes some discretion unavoidable," says the Survey

Economic Survey's optimism about India's public debt looks misplaced

India will not face the problem of debt sustainability even in the worst of scenarios till 2030, the Survey observed.

Eco Survey bats for sustained, calibrated measures to facilitate recovery

Economic Survey is rich in analysis and comparisons with international data and this makes it an important policy document as has been the case in previous years

Eco Survey suggests end to forbearance, another asset quality review round

Severely criticises RBI for not being able to unearth full extent of bad debt mess in banks in previous AQR round

Increasing health spend to 3% can halve out-of-pocket expenses: Eco Survey

The survey said the focus must be on building the health care system generally rather than a specific focus on communicable diseases

No 'jugaad': Businesses must raise R&D spend, says Economic Survey

India's gross expenditure on R&D is 0.65% of GDP, significantly lower than top 10 economies' spend of 1.5-3%

Bare necessities: Economic Survey takes a leaf out of 'Jungle Book'

Kerala, Punjab, Haryana, and Gujarat have highest access to basic amenities

Highways construction to regain high pace of pre-Covid level: Eco Survey

Highways construction will regain fast-pace of the pre-Covid level on the back of multiple initiatives, the survey said

Only 3% difference in prices on GeM and Amazon and Flipkart, shows data

A set of common items were identified or the study, done on January 4.

Decoded: Seizing India's foreign assets won't be easy for Cairn Energy

India can challenge the award in the courts of the seat of the arbitration - in this case, the Dutch courts

Stronger vaccination drive need to revive economy, create jobs: Nilekani

To achieve scale, one has to vaccinate 5-10 million people a day and this would need strong cooperation between govt and private sector, he says

Output of eight core industries contracts 1.3% in December 2020

During April-December 2020-21, the sectors' output declined by 10.1 per cent against a growth rate of 0.6 per cent in the same period of the previous year

Tata Electronics, Pegatron among Rs 52,258 cr proposals cleared by TN govt

The cabinet also cleared the government's new industrial policy

India's fiscal deficit soars to Rs 11.6 trillion at December end

According to the data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), the fiscal deficit at the end of December in the previous fiscal year was 132.4 per cent of the BE of 2019-20