Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has presented Economic Survey 2021-22 in Parliament on 31st January 2022.
The pre-Budget Economic Survey is authored by a team led by Chief Economic Advisor (CEA).
Days before the presentation, the Centre appointed economist V Anantha Nageswaran as the new CEA.
The government sees the Indian economy growing at 8-8.5 percent in the financial year 2022-23 (FY23).
The GDP growth rate for the ongoing financial year 2021-22 (FY22) is estimated at 9.2 percent.
In order to achieve USD 5 trillion GDP by FY’25, India needs to spend about USD 1.4 trillion over this period on infrastructure, according to the Economic Survey.
The theme of Economic Survey 2021-22 is the “Agile approach”.