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Winter session troubles may hit House again; FM to present Eco Survey today

The Personal Data Protection Bill is eagerly awaited and may come up in the Budget session

Eyes on GDP forecast by pre-budget Economic Survey despite recent misses

The pre-budget Economic Survey, which is tabled in Parliament ahead of the Union Budget to present the state of the economy, quite often misses on the GDP forecast, sometimes by a significant margin.

Economic Surveys way off mark in projecting outlook in recent years

Many of their ideas, such as DBT, diesel deregulation, bad bank, flexible inflation targeting have been launched, some of them partially; others such as UBI, printing more money haven't taken off

Single volume Economic Survey likely, may project growth rate of around 9%

The finance ministry is expected to come out with a single volume Economic Survey for 2021-22 projecting a growth of around 9 per cent for the next financial year.

Budget secrecy is too archaic now to be continued

Budget reform is not something the Modi government has shied away from

The role of the CEA needs to be redefined by the finance minister

Successive govts have appointed excellent economists, not because they wanted their advice, but because someone has to prepare the Survey and maybe speak on behalf of the government as a spokesperson.

Annual Economic Survey explained

Before the Union Budget, the govt releases the Economic Survey. It is an annual document that offers a peek into India's economic development over the previous fiscal year. This report explains more

TMS Ep83: Traditional distributors, silver, RIL, Economic Survey

How are traditional distributors competing with big brands? Can investors benefit by putting money in silver? Should Reliance Industries go for de-merger? What is Economic Survey? All answers here

2021-22 Economic Survey may revert to one volume after eight years

The Economic Survey sets the context in which the Union Budget is presented by the Finance Minister

Growth in FY'22 to be around 11% as projected in Economic Survey, says CEA

He also said the overall impact of the second wave on the economy will not be very large.

Managing the 2nd pandemic wave

Many of the criticisms of the government's handling of the pandemic are strictly hindsight or lack a rigorous foundation

Best of BS Opinion: Changing a monolith, bare necessities for India & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

The bare necessities for India

The latest Economic Survey has presented an interesting new index called the Bare Necessities Index. The BNI Index covers five areas that impact the daily lives of a bottom-of-the-pyramid householder

Load shedding in Delhi lowest in last two decades, says Economic Survey

Load shedding in the national capital has dropped to 0.03 per cent of the total consumption

Average levels of pollutants in 2020 lowest in 7 yrs: Delhi Economic Survey

Average levels of various pollutants, including PM10, PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide, in Delhi last year were the lowest since 2014

India's sovereign rating fixation

Should Indian policymakers be concerned about India's existing sovereign rating?

Monetary policy: RBI doing exactly what AQR does, though unofficially

The Economic Survey, last week, had suggested that there should be one more round of AQR of banks after the Covid-related forbearance is over

RBI monetary policy: Govt told to cut fuel taxes to ease inflation concerns

GDP projection revised upwards, but lower than Eco Survey's

2-6% inflation target works well, no need to tinker with it: Sanjeev Sanyal

In a Q&A, the finance ministry's Principal Economic Advisor also explains why he thinks the latest Budget is extraordinary

How will Budget 2021 impact senior citizens, NRIs and salaried people

In this Podcast, we discussed how the Budget will impact finances of senior citizens, non resident Indians, salaried people and the changes in taxation on Ulips and ease of ITR