ECONOMY
Economic Survey 2025 estimates India's growth at 6.8% in FY25
- IBJ Bureau
- Feb 01, 2025
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2025 in Parliament on Friday. The survey projects India’s GDP to grow in the range of 6.3-6.8 per cent.
The 2025 survey came within a span of six months from the previous 2022-23 survey which was presented in July 22, 2024 after the general election.
Despite global uncertainty, India’s real GDP growth of 6.4 per cent in the financial year 2024-25 (according to the first advance estimates of national income) remains close to the decadal average, according to the survey.
The Economic Survey called for deregulation to drive growth. “A fundamental pre-requisite is to accelerate and amplify the deregulation agenda already underway in the last ten years and work towards giving people back their agency and enhancing the economic freedoms of individuals and organisations,” the survey has said.
Building infrastructure – physical, digital and social – has been a central focus area for the government in the last five years. This has had various dimensions – increase in public spending on infrastructure, creation of institutions to de-bottleneck approvals and execution and innovative modes of resource mobilisation. In FY25, capital expenditure has gathered momentum postelections,” the survey adds.
The Economic Survey is a compilation of the Indian economy’s performance and government policies, as well as the outlook for the upcoming financial year. It is prepared by the economic division of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), which is headed by Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran.
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