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Article Name	Economic Survey 2020 Important Questions & Highlights PDF
Category	Study Materials
Important For	UPSC, SSC, Banking & Other Exams
Total Volumes	2
Total Questions	50
Source	Government Of India
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Finally, the wait is over and Economic Survey of India for the year 2019-20 is presented by the Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman in parliament. India’s aspiration to be a 5 trillion economy is the base of this survey.

The Economic Survey reviews the developments in the Indian economy of the last 12 months. It highlights the policy initiatives of the government and summarizes the performance of major development programs, and shows the growth prospects of the economy. Here we have mentioned some brief details about Economic Survey 2020. Economic survey comes in two volumes: Volume I and II.

Volume 2	Volume 1
Preface State of the Economy in 2018-19: A Macro View Fiscal Developments External Sector Monetary Management and Financial Intermediation Prices & Inflation Sustainable Development and Climate Change Agriculture and Food Management Industry and Infrastructure Services Sector Social Infrastructure, Employment and Human Development	Preface Wealth Creation: The Invisible Hand Supported by the Hand of Trust Entrepreneurship and Wealth Creation at the Grassroots Pro-Business versus Pro-Crony Undermining Markets: When Government intervention hurts more than it helps Creating jobs and growth by specializing to exports in network products Targeting ease of doing business in India Golden jubilee of bank nationalisation: Taking stock Financial fragility in the NBFC sector Privatization and wealth creation Is India’s GDP growth rate overstated? No Thalinomics: The Economics of a plate of food in India
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Economic Survey 2020 Important Highlights PDF

Indian Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Economic Survey 2020 in the Parliament on 31 January 2020. Here we have mentioned the Important highlights and key points of the Survey:

• The theme of the Economic Survey is wealth creation, promotion of pro-business policies and strengthening of trust in the economy.
• Thalis with respect to one day’s pay of a worker have improved over time, which indicates improved welfare of the common man.
• Affordability of vegetarian Thalis improved 29 percent from 2006-07 to 2019-20 while that for non-vegetarian Thalis by 18 percent.
• There have been many new firms created in the country since 2014.
• In the formal sector, there has been a 12.2 % cumulative annual growth rate of new firms in 2014-18, compared to 3.8 % in 2006-2014.
• About 1.24 lakh new firms were created in the year 2018, which is an increase of about 80 % from about 70,000 in 2014.
• Under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G), the number of houses completed in a year quadrupled.
• To achieve a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of USD 5 trillion by 2024 – 25, India needs to spend about USD 1.4 trillion (Rs.100 lakh crore) over these years on infrastructure so that lack of infrastructure does not become an impediment to the growth of the economy.
• Livestock has emerged as an important secondary source of income for rural families and has assumed an important role in securing the goal of doubling the income of farmers.
• There is a need to bring in a distinction between hoarding and storage of food grains, this will play an important role in doubling farmers’ income.
• There is also a need for addressing some basic challenges such as credit, insurance coverage as well as irrigation in agriculture and allied sectors.
• Tree and forest cover are increasing greatly.
• States/UTs showing an increase in forest cover are Karnataka, Jammu & Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh. States showing a loss are Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.
• Ayushman Bharat has set up 28,005 Health & Wellness Centres as of 14th January 2020.
• The OoPE (out of pocket expenditure) on health as a percentage of total health expenditure diminished from 64.2 percent in 2013-14 to 58.7 percent in 2016-17.
• 2.6 crore jobs have been created in urban and rural areas between 2011-12 and 2017-18.
• Apart from jobs, the focus has also been on enhancing the quality of jobs and formalisation of the economy.
• The share of regular wage/salaried employees has increased from 18 percent in 2011-12 to almost 23 percent in 2017 – 2018 (an increase of five percentage points). This reflects formalisation in the Indian economy.
• Currently, India has the second-largest emerging Green Bond Market after China.
• The State Bank of India entered the green bond market with a US$650 million Certified Climate Bond.
• In 2019, India joined the International Platform on Sustainable Finance (IPSF) to further boost the environmentally sustainable investments.
• All the urban areas of 35 states/UTs have been declared ‘open defecation free’ (ODF).
• The percentage of waste processing has increased to around 60% from 18%.
• This comes under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban).
• In the services sector, there has been a 33% hike in the gross FDI.
• This sector accounted for about 55% of the economy and Gross Value Added (GVA) growth, 38% of the total exports and 2/3rd of the total FDI inflows into India.
• In 15 of the 33 states/UTs, the services sector’s share is now over 50 percent of the Gross State Value Added.
• Regarding the space programme of the country, ISRO has launched around 5-7 satellites per year in recent years with almost no failures.
• The survey notes that while there is a case for governmental intervention when markets don’t function properly, excessive intervention particularly when the market can do the job of improving citizens’ welfare perfectly well, suppresses economic freedom and generates ‘deadweight loss’.
• Deadweight loss is the loss generated by the wasted opportunity of creating a consumer and producer surplus and diminishes wealth creation by not permitting efficient allocation of entrepreneurial resources and energy to productive activities thereby promoting economic dynamism.
• The GDP growth is pegged at 6-6.5 percent in the fiscal year starting in April.
• Fiscal deficit target may have to be relaxed to revive growth for current fiscal.
• Relying on ten factors like build-up of demand pressure, higher FDI inflows, positive growth of GST revenue), there is an expectation of an uptick in growth in the second half of the current fiscal.
• The Survey demands that the government deliver diligently on reforms in order to revive growth.
• Ethical wealth creation is key to India becoming a USD 5 trillion economy by the year 2025.
  With respect to regular women employment, from 2011 – 12 to 2017 – 18, there is an increase of 8%.
• But in rural employment of women, there has been a decline in female labour force participation.
• Debt waivers disrupt the credit culture, reduces formal credit to the same farmers.
• The survey recommends the government to analyse the areas where it intervenes and undermines markets unnecessarily.
• There is a call for improving governance in public sector banks, and bring in more disclosures to enhance trust. The Survey also mentions dwarfism in the banking sector.
• The Survey also suggests to take steps to make it easier to start new business ventures, pay taxes, register property, and enforce contracts.
• Easing of crude prices reduces the current account deficit; imports contract more sharply than exports in the first half of the current fiscal.
• Demand pressure in the economy is weakening as indicated by a declining inflation rate (from 3.2% in April 2019 to 2.6% in Dec 2019).
• During April – November 2019, the GST collections increased by 4.1% for the Centre.
• The Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) commented in the press conference after the Survey release that the impact of the Wuhan Coronavirus on the Indian economy would be very marginal.
• He noted that all groups of countries have slowed down and in a globalized economy, India has also felt the effect.
• He said the economic slowdown since 2017 has been due to the lagged effect of reduced investment from 2013 which occurred due to credit boom-bust.
• The Survey informs that for wealth to be distributed, it first has to be created and called for looking at wealth creators with respect.

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Economic Survey 2020 Important Questions PDF

Candidates preparing for UPSC and different government job exams are searching for Important Questions related to Economic Survey 2020. Here we have mentioned Economic Survey 2020 Important Questions with PDF to make It easier for you:

1. What is the over-arching theme of Economic Survey 2019-20?
a) Unemployment
b) Wealth Creation
c) Industrial Reforms
d) Start-up Innovation

2. Which term was used to describe the economics of a plate of food in India in the Economic Survey 2019-20?
a) Thalinomics
b) Foodonomics
c) Plutonomics
d) Deshonomics

3. The Economic Survey 2019-20 has projected how much GDP Growth for fiscal year 2020-21?
a) 5-5.5 percent
b) 6-6.5 percent
c) 5-6 percent
d) 5-6.5 percent

4. What is the estimated Industrial growth for fiscal 2019-20?
a) 2.5 percent
b) 3.5 percent
c) 4.5 percent
d) 3 percent

5. What is the projected growth rate for agriculture in Fiscal Year 2019-20?
a) 3.4 percent
b) 2.5 percent
c) 2.1 percent
d) 2.8 percent

6. Where is the Economic Survey presented?
(a). Rajya Sabha
(b). Lok Sabha
(c). Both Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha
(d). Rashtrapati Bhavan

7. Who is the present Chief Economic Advisor of India?
(a). Raghu Ram Rajan
(b). Ajit Doval
(c). Krishnamurthy V Subramanian
(d). Sunil Arora

8. How many new jobs were created in India between 2011-12 and 2017-18 as per Economic Survey 2019-20?
a) 6.3 crore
b) 4.4 crore
c) 5.5 crore
d) 2.6 crore

9. Which is the only bank of India to rank in the Global top 100 list?
(a). PNB
(b). SBI
(c). OBC
(d). HDFC Bank

10. How much India needs to spend on infrastructure to become USD 5 trillion economy by 2024-25?
a) USD 1.2 trillion
b) USD 1.4 trillion
c) USD 1.6 trillion
d) USD 1.8 trillion

11. As per the Economic Survey of India, how many new companies were formed in 2018?
a) 80,000
b) 93,000
c) 1,24,000
d) 1,39,000

12. What is India’s Foreign reserve as on 10th January, 2020?
(a). US$ 461.2 bn
(b). US$ 421.2 bn
(c). US$ 411.2 bn
(d). US$ 261.2 bn

13. The year 2019 marked the golden jubilee of which event, as per Economic Survey 2020?
a) PSU Privatisation
b) Bank Capitalisation
c) Bank Nationalisation
d) CPSE Disinvestment

14. Which Government Scheme has vaccinated 3.39 crore children and 87.18 lakh pregnant women of 680 districts across the country.
(a). Mission Indradhanush
(b). Ayushmaan Bharat
(c). National Health Mission
(d). Janashree Bima Yojana

15. What is the percentage of Forest and tree cover W.R.T. the geographical area of the country?
(a). 24.56 %
(b). 24.14 %
(c). 22.44 %
(d). 22.22 %

16. Which Indian State topped the Sustainable Development and Climate Change India Index 2019?
(a). Kerala
(b). Himachal Pradesh
(c). Rajasthan
(d). Gujarat

17. What is the percentage of population that lie between population between 15 and 29 years in India?
(a). 35%
(b). 33%
(c). 40%
(d). 45%

18. The “PMJDY” bank account programme enrolled — no.of beneficiaries
(a). 36 crore
(b). 37.8 crore
(c). 38.5 crore
(d). 35 crore

19. The P J Nayak Committee is related to?
(a). Electricity
(b). International Relations
(c). Public Sector Banks
(d). Direct Benefit Transfer

20. GSTN consists of how many digits?
(a). 10 digits
(b). 12 digits
(c). 15 digits
(d). 11 digits

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