HIGHLIGHTS: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26

• Economic Survey is the annual flagship document of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance, presented in Parliament a day before the Union Budget; authored under the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA).
• The 2025-26 edition projects India as the fastest-growing major economy for the 4th consecutive year, with Real GDP growth of 7.4% for FY26.
• Themes: consumption-investment "double engine", banking sector clean-up, external sector resilience (services + remittances), and financial inclusion deepening.