The economic survey will be tabled in the parliament today.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman table the Economic Survey 2018-19 in the Rajya Sabha, news agency ANI reported. As the flagship document of the finance ministry, the Economic Survey -- prepared by Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian -- is likely to highlight the challenges that the economy might face in its pursuit to become the world's fifth largest economy. It is also likely to detail reforms road map needed to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal of more than doubling the size of the economy to USD 5 trillion by 2024. The survey will come a day ahead of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the first budget of the Modi 2.0 government.
The Economic Survey, the annual report of the Indian economy for the year gone by (2018-19), also comes at a time when some critics said that the Modi government in its first term delivered a job less growth and it needed to re-invent to propel the economy and create jobs.