Economic Survey theme: Of lavender blue, Rig Veda and Band Baaja Baaraat

In another insight, the survey has observed that it is much easier to buy a gun than to open a restaurant in India

The Economic Survey 2019-20, tabled on Friday in Parliament, could well have been titled: ‘In search of lost time’, or ‘Remembrance of things past’.

In lavender-blue paperback jacket, which is also the colour of its charts and graphs, and with its emphasis on “wealth creation” and spurring entrepreneurial spirit at a time of dwindling consumption and revenue, lack of jobs, and industrial activity, the survey is a reminder of the old nursery rhyme Lavender Blue: “Call up your men, set them to work. Some with a rake, some with a fork. Some to make hay, some to thresh corn, whilst you