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39-770: The Economic Survey of India is an annual document of the Ministry of Finance , Government of India . The Department of Economic Affairs , Ministry of Finance presents the Survey in the Parliament every year, just before the Union Budget . It is prepared under the guidance of the Chief Economic Adviser of India. This document is presented to both Houses of Parliament during the Budget Session . The first Economic Survey of India

78-411: A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in financial economics from University of Chicago Booth School of Business . His PhD was completed under the supervision of Luigi Zingales and Raghuram Rajan . He was awarded an Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in 2005 for his doctoral research thesis. Subramanian has worked in expert committees for Securities and Exchange Board of India and

117-490: A contraction and now it is about 4.1 percent above pre-pandemic levels, he added. India's overall GVA grew by 8.6 percent on year in 2021–22, after contracting 6.2% in 2020–21, PEA Sanjeev Sanyal said. Sanyal added that India now has $ 636 billion worth of forex reserves, one of the highest in the world, and equivalent to 13.2 months of imports. The principal economic advisor further said that India's spending on social services has risen to around Rs 20 lakh crore in 2021–22, whereas,

156-582: A decision aimed at the proper management of Centre's investments in equity including its disinvestment in central public sector undertakings. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced the renaming of the Department of Disinvestment in his budget speech for 2016–17. Initially set up as an independent ministry (The Ministry of Disinvestment) in December 1999, the Department of Disinvestments came into existence in May 2004 when

195-634: A pre-sanction appraisal of major schemes/projects (both Plan and non-Plan expenditure), handling the bulk of the Central budgetary resources transferred to States, implementation of the recommendations of the Finance and Central Pay Commissions , overseeing the expenditure management in the Central Ministries/Departments through the interface with the Financial Advisors and the administration of

234-596: Is also coordinating matters concerning the Ministry of Finance including Parliament-related work of the Ministry. The department has under its administrative control the National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM), Faridabad. The business allocated to the Department of Expenditure is carried out through its Establishment Division, Plan Finance I and II Divisions, Finance Commission Division, Staff Inspection Unit, Cost Accounts Branch, Controller General of Accounts, and

273-511: Is also presented by the CEA during a press meet after it is tabled in Parliament. This year the survey was printed in lavender , the same colour as the 100-rupee note, symbolizing the integration of old and new. The broad theme for the survey is "Ethical Wealth Creation". The document outlines strategies for making India a $ 5 trillion economy by 2024–25. This includes strengthening the invisible hand of

312-563: Is an Indian economist who served as the 17th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India . Subramanian is a leading expert on economic policy, banking and corporate governance, who was the youngest Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India , serving from 2018 to 2021. He has been appointed to the post of India's Executive Director at the IMF , with effect from November 1, 2022. Subramanian

351-597: Is headed by a chairman who is also ex officio Special Secretary to the Government of India (Secretary level). Matters relating to the levy and collection of all Direct taxes are looked after by the CBDT whereas those relating to levy and collection of GST, Customs Duty, Central Excise duties and other Indirect taxes fall within the purview of the CBIC. The two Boards were constituted under the Central Board of Revenue Act, 1963. At present,

390-521: Is now abolished as announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during 2017-2018 budget speech in Lok Sabha. Shri Ajay Seth is the current secretary of this department. The Department of Expenditure is the nodal department for overseeing the public financial management system in the Central Government and matters connected with the state finances. The principal activities of the department include

429-504: Is the preparation and presentation of the Union Budget to the parliament and budget for the state Governments under President's Rule and union territory administrations. Other main functions include: The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), housed in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, was an inter-ministerial body, responsible for processing of FDI proposals and making recommendations for Government approval. FIPB

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468-469: Is very high, in this case the loss being the loss of human life. The survey also notes how a "healthcare crisis can get transformed into an economic and social crisis". Some of the key points of the Economic Survey 2020–21 are: The survey has quotes and explanatory anecdotes from Mahabharata , Rabindranath Tagore , Raghuvansham , A.P.J.Abdul Kalam , Mohandas K. Gandhi , The Jungle Book ( look for

507-738: The Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Government of India. The CEA also presents the survey during a press meet after it is tabled in Parliament. The 2020-21 survey has been conducted in the background of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in India . A foundational theme of a survey as a result of the pandemic has been "Saving Lives and Livelihoods". The survey goes on to outline epidemiological and economic research related to lockdowns and minimizing losses when uncertainty

546-663: The Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises was shifted to Ministry of Finance. Resulting in Finance Ministry having six departments while the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises was renamed to the Ministry of Heavy Industries. This shift was carried out to help in efficient monitoring of the capital expenditure, asset monetisation and financial health of the Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs). Krishnamurthy Subramanian Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian (born 5 May 1971)

585-1064: The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana . Nagaraju Maddirala is the current secretary of this department. This department has ownership over the following central government establishments . Presently there are 13 nationalised banks in India. These are government owned scheduled commercial banks of India that operate at regional level in different states. Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Puducherry Punjab Rajasthan Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal 3. Nationalised Insurance Companies 4. Nationalised Financial Market Exchanges The Department of Disinvestment has been renamed as Department of Investment and Public Asset Management or 'DIPAM',

624-579: The Reserve Bank of India , being a part of major economic and corporate reforms in India. He was Member & Director of Research, P J Nayak Committee on Governance of Bank Boards formed by RBI , and was also a member of Uday Kotak Committee on Corporate Governance in SEBI . He has worked with JPMorgan Chase , ICICI Bank and Tata Consultancy Services . He was a member of board of directors in Bandhan Bank . He

663-472: The Union Budget . The Ministry of Finance is the apex controlling authority of four central civil services namely Indian Revenue Service , Indian Audit and Accounts Service , Indian Economic Service and Indian Civil Accounts Service . It is also the apex controlling authority of one of the central commerce services namely Indian Cost and Management Accounts Service . Sir Ramasamy Chetty Kandasamy Shanmukham Chetty KCIE (17 October 1892 – 5 May 1953)

702-500: The CBDT has six Members and the CBIC has five Members. The Members are also ex officio Secretaries to the Government of India. Members of CBDT are as follows: Shri Sanjay Malhotra (IAS) is the current secretary of this department. The Department of Financial Services covers Banks, Insurance, and Financial Services provided by various government agencies and private corporations. It also covers pension reforms and Industrial Finance and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise. It started

741-671: The Central Pension Accounting. Manoj Govil is the current secretary of this department. The Department of Revenue function under the overall direction and control of the Secretary (Revenue). It exercises control in respect of matters relating to all the Direct and Indirect Union Taxes through two statutory Boards namely, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC). Each Board

780-485: The Economic Survey of India reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the past financial year, summarizes the performance on major development programs, and highlights the policy initiatives of the government and the prospects of the economy in the short to medium term. Unlike the traditional Economic Survey, the Economic Survey of India for 2016–17, prepared by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian , did not have

819-578: The Financial Rules / Regulations /Orders through monitoring of Audit comments/observations, preparation of Central Government Accounts, managing the financial aspects of personnel management in the Central Government, assisting Central Ministries/Departments in controlling the costs and prices of public services, assisting organizational re-engineering thorough review of staffing patterns and O&M studies and reviewing systems and procedures to optimize outputs and outcomes of public expenditure. The department

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858-623: The Indian economy through trust in pro-business government intervention and trust in the markets; while at the same time moving away from "pro-crony" policy and focusing on ethical wealth creation. The survey covers the economic performance India in 2019–20 including fiscal developments, external sector developments, monetary management and financial intermediation , inflation, sustainable development and climate change, agriculture and food management, industry and infrastructure, services sector, social infrastructure, employment and human development . Some of

897-488: The Survey mentions. Encouraging farmers to shift from cultivation of rice and wheat to pulses and oilseeds would help ensure that the country is self-reliant in pulses and oilseeds and also assist in reducing import dependence. The Economic Survey also warned that the new restrictions introduced across the globe due to the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus pose a threat to tourism as well as domestic passenger traffic in

936-684: The bare necessities, the simple bare necessities ), a recent India versus Australia cricket match , Tirukkuṟaḷ , 3 Idiots , Malgudi Days and Martin Luther King Jr . Ministry of Finance (India) The Ministry of Finance ( IAST : Vitta Maṃtrālaya ) is a ministry within the Government of India concerned with the economy of India , serving as the Treasury of India. In particular, it concerns itself with taxation , financial legislation, financial institutions, capital markets, currency regulation, banking service, centre and state finances, and

975-653: The detailed financial statistics of the Government of India. The Survey has been tabled by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on January 31 that details the state of the economy ahead of the government's Budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2022. The survey acknowledges the support from the Ministers of State for Finance Shri Pankaj Chaudhary and Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Finance Secretary T. V. Somanathan, Secretary DEA Ajay Seth and Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj. The Economic Survey 2021-22 details

1014-553: The economy is emphasized upon. Reference to the Arthashastra , Tirukkural and The Wealth of Nations is made. Through these texts, the Survey documents that ideas of wealth creation are rooted in India's rich traditions. The Survey notes that India's past dominance in economic matters was not by chance, but design. Some of the key points of the Economic Survey 2019–20 are: The survey also had quotes from Shrimad Bhagavad Gita , Rigveda , Arthashastra and Tirukkural . Data for

1053-761: The executive director of the Centre for Analytical Finance at ISB. He was awarded "Professor of the Year" by ISB for courses that he taught for the Class of 2019. As the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), Subramanian authored Economic Surveys on Ethical Wealth Creation for a prosperous India (2019–20), the Strategic Blueprint for India to become a US$ 5 trillion economy (2018–19), and the post- COVID-19 economy using public capital expenditures in infrastructure and healthcare to further counter-cyclical fiscal policy (2020–21). His ideas of

1092-451: The key points raised by the survey were the need for grassroots entrepreneurship, pro-business and pro-market differentiation, policies that do not undermine the markets, job and growth creation, improving the ease of doing business in India, creation of early warning health system for the NBFC sector, privatization and thalinomics . The importance of "Ethical Wealth Creation" as a basis for

1131-464: The ministry was turned into a department of the Ministry of Finance. The department took up all the functions of the erstwhile ministry which broadly was responsible for a systematic policy approach to disinvestment and privatisation of Public Sector Units (PSUs). Tuhin Kanta Pandey is the current secretary of this department. The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) which was earlier part of

1170-486: The near term. Vaccination is not merely a health response but is critical for opening up the economy, particularly contact-intensive services. Therefore, it should be treated for now as a macro-economic indicator. Principal Economic Advisor Sanjeev Sanyal, while addressing the press, said agriculture sector, "not surprisingly, was least affected by lockdowns of various kinds". This sector grew in even 2020-21 and again in 2021–22. Industrial sector, on other hand, did go through

1209-469: The spending on education and health has risen to Rs 6.97 lakh crore and Rs 4.72 lakh crore in the same period, respectively. The Economic Survey 2019–20 was tabled during the Budget Session of the Parliament on 31 January 2020 by Nirmala Sitharaman , Minister of Finance. The survey was prepared under Krishnamurthy Subramanian , the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Government of India. The survey

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1248-416: The state of different sectors of the economy as well as reforms that should be undertaken to accelerate growth. The gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 7.3 percent in 2020–21. As per the Survey, India's economic response to devastation caused by pandemic has been supply-side reforms rather than demand management. Economic Survey 2021-22 warned India to be wary of imported inflation. The Survey said as

1287-500: The survey relied on information from sources such as Bloomberg, IIM(B), Forbes , IMF, World Bank, RBI, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India , the United Nations, and Misplaced Pages , among others. The Economic Survey 2020–21 was tabled during the Budget Session of the Parliament on 29 January 2021 by Nirmala Sitharaman , Minister of Finance. The survey was prepared under Krishnamurthy Subramanian ,

1326-610: The use of Behavioural Economics and Thalinomics captured the public imagination. Subramanian was inducted into the Fifteenth   Finance Commission's advisory council in May 2019. In articles published in The Times of India and Livemint titled, "Will Black Be Back? Why demonetisation will be revolutionary in India’s fight against corruption", and "Demonetisation: Are the poor really suffering?", respectively, Subramanian supported

1365-630: The wholesale price-based inflation (WPI) during the current financial year, in contrast to the trends observed in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, has shown an increasing trend, and remained high. The Survey calls for improving productivity of small and marginal farmers through small holding farm technologies. The Survey states that climate finance will remain critical to successful climate action for India to achieve its Net Zero Carbon Emission target by 2070. Crop diversification towards oilseeds, pulses and horticulture needs to be given priority,

1404-852: Was also a member of board of directors in the National Institute of Bank Management and the Reserve Bank of India Academy. Subramanian taught at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in the United States from 2005 to 2010. He is a member of American Finance Association . In 2009, he visited the Indian School of Business as a visiting scholar. He subsequently joined the ISB as an assistant professor. At ISB, he served as an associate professor and later professor. He also served as

1443-563: Was born in Bhilai , Chhattisgarh in a Tamil family. He completed his schooling from M.G.M. Senior Secondary School, Sector-6, Bhilai. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where he studied electrical engineering and holds a Master of Business Administration from IIM Calcutta , where he was awarded gold medal and placed in the Institute's Roll of Honor . He received

1482-455: Was presented in 1950-51 as part of the Union Budget. After 1964 it was separated from the Budget and presented each year during the Budget Session before the presentation of the budget. The document is non-binding. Nevertheless, is constructed and presented each year due to its significance. The document is the Ministry's view on the state of the economy of the country. This document of the Ministry,

1521-460: Was the first Finance Minister of independent India. He presented the first budget of independent India on 26 November 1947. The Department of Economic Affairs is the nodal agency of the Union Government to formulate and monitor country's economic policies and programmes having a bearing on domestic and international aspects of economic management. A principal responsibility of this department

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