Economic survey of India

[4] 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.

As per the Survey, India's economic response to devastation caused by pandemic has been supply-side reforms rather than demand management.

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 the near term.

Principal Economic Advisor Sanjeev Sanyal, while addressing the press, said agriculture sector, "not surprisingly, was least affected by lockdowns of various kinds".

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 Economic Survey 2019–20 was tabled during the Budget Session of the Parliament on 31 January 2020 by Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance.

Some of 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.

[15][16][17] Data for 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 Wikipedia, among others.

[21][22] The Economic Survey 2020–21 was tabled during the Budget Session of the Parliament on 29 January 2021 by Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance.

[26] 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 the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities), a recent India versus Australia cricket match, Tirukkuṟaḷ, 3 Idiots, Malgudi Days and Martin Luther King Jr.[32][29]