Run-up to Budget: Economic Survey may peg India's FY24 GDP growth at 6-7%

Economic Survey to focus on India's response to Covid, geopolitical shocks

The Economic Survey 2022-23 (FY23), to be presented a day before Union Budget 2023-24 (FY24), is likely to project India’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth between 6 per cent and 7 per cent for FY24, Business Standard has learnt.

The broader theme of the Survey could be on how India has dealt with two years of a global pandemic and the ongoing geopolitical disturbance, the strengths and weaknesses that emerged, and what lessons may be learnt.

The much-awaited Survey will be the first one by Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran and his team in the finance ministry’s economic division. 

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