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Opinion | Harness data

The Economic Survey’s discussion on the importance of data and the need to treat it as a “public good” is interesting

1 min read4 Jul 2019
Budget 2019

Swachh Bharat Mission improved health and nutrition: Economic Survey

Even 67 years after India’s independence, in 2014, around 10 crore rural and about 1 crore urban households in India were without a sanitary toiletOver 56.4 crore, almost close to half the population, still practiced open defecation

3 min read4 Jul 2019
Budget 2019

Give sops to young MSMEs, rather than across-the-board benefits: Economic Survey

There are 63.38 million unincorporated non-farm MSMEs in the country engaged in different economic activitiesThe sector employs more than 49.77 million people

2 min read4 Jul 2019
Budget 2019

Economic Survey cites Rajasthan’s labour reform as ideal model to boost jobs, productivity

In Rajasthan, the average employee count in factories grew 4.17% in 2017 against a decline of 8.9% in 2013Industries view the labour reforms introduced in Rajasthan as progressive, while workers’ unions say they are anti-worker and regressive

2 min read5 Jul 2019
Budget 2019

Economic Survey suggests policy tweaks to improve voluntary surrender of LPG subsidies

This comes in the backdrop of marquee schemes such as the PM Ujjwala Yojana, which provides free cooking gas connections to poor families, contributing to the NDA’s win in the 17th Lok Sabha electionsThe Ujjwala scheme’s ambit has expanded to 80 million poor families from the earlier target of 50 million

2 min read5 Jul 2019
Budget 2019

Raising funds to fight climate change could be a huge challenge

Additional investments will be needed for greater resilience and better disaster managementDeveloped countries had committed to $100 billion per annum for climate adaptation and mitigation by 2020

1 min read5 Jul 2019
Budget 2019

India will need $250 bn in green energy funds from 2023 to 2030

Investment opportunity for over $30 bn per year is expected to come up for next decade, says Economic SurveyIndia is running the world’s largest renewable energy programme

4 min read5 Jul 2019
Budget 2019

Focus on transforming India into an EV manufacturing hub on lines of Detroit

The Survey highlights the need to set up charging infra on roads and highways across the countryIndia is the third largest crude oil importer in the world and its cities feature prominently in the list of the most polluted cities in the world

2 min read5 Jul 2019
Budget 2019

Economic Survey sees big gains from higher energy consumption

A two-and-a-half times increase in India’s per capita energy consumption will help it grow the real per capita GDP by $5000 (in 2010 prices)India uses only around 6% of the world’s primary energy despite it having 18% of the world’s population

2 min read4 Jul 2019
Budget 2019

Five ways in which this Economic Survey is different from previous ones

From being guided by 'blue sky' or unfettered thinking about what should be the right economic model to Behavioural economics, the Economic Survey has quite a few first timesAmong others, it also makes a strong case for using the amount of data generated by the digital economy for public good

2 min read4 Jul 2019
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