{"id":131291,"date":"2022-02-03T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=131291"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:03:36","slug":"economic-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/economic-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question &#8211; On 31 January 2022, Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the &#8220;Economic Survey, 2021-22&#8221; in the Parliament. With reference to this, consider the following statements:<br>(i) India\u2019s growth rate is estimated to be 8.0 to 8.5 percent in the year 2022-23.<br>(ii) A growth rate of 3.9 percent is expected in the agriculture sector in the year 2021-22.<br>(iii) The US remained the top export destination during April-November 2021.<br>(iv) Petroleum products topped the top ten exported items during April-November 2021.<br>Which of the above statement(s) is\/are correct?<br>Code-<br><\/strong>(a) only (i) and (iii)<br>(b) only (ii)\u201a(iii) and (iv)<br>(c) only (i) and (iv)<br>(d) all of the above<br><strong>Answer\u2014(d)<br>Related facts\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 31 January 2022, Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the &#8220;Economic Survey, 2021-22&#8221; in the Parliament.<\/li><li><strong>Key points &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>The Indian economy is estimated to grow by 9.2 percent in 2021-22 (1st AE) as against a decline of 7.3 percent in the year 2020-21.<\/li><li>The GDP growth rate in the year 2022-23 is estimated to be 8 to 8.5 percent.<\/li><li>Agriculture and allied sectors are expected to grow by 3.9 per cent, industry at 11.8 per cent and services sector by 8.2 per cent in 2021-22.<\/li><li>With the increase in borrowing due to Covid-19, the central government&#8217;s debt increased to 59.3 percent of GDP in the year 2020-21 from the level of 49.1 percent of GDP in the year 2019-20.<\/li><li>India&#8217;s external debt increased to $593.1 billion at the end of September 2021 from $556.8 billion a year ago.<\/li><li>Foreign exchange reserves exceeded $600 billion in the first half of 2021-22 and reached a level of $633.6 billion as of December 31, 2021.<\/li><li>At the end of November 2021, India was the fourth largest foreign exchange reserve country after China, Japan and Switzerland.<\/li><li>India&#8217;s overall score on the NITI Aayog SDG India Index and Dashboard improved to 66 in 2020-21 from 60 in 2019-20 and 57 in 2018-19.<\/li><li>India is the country with the tenth largest forest area in the world.<\/li><li>India ranked third in the world in terms of increase in forest area during 2010 to 2021.<\/li><li>India has become the third largest start-up ecosystem in the world after the US and China.<\/li><li>The expenditure of the Center and states as a ratio of GDP on social services (health, education and others) which was 6.2 per cent in 2014-15 has increased to 8.6 per cent in 2021-22 (Budget Estimates).<\/li><li>The US remained the top export destination during April-November 2021.<\/li><li>Petroleum products topped the top ten exported items during April-November 2021.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Pankaj Pandey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiabudget.gov.in\/economicsurvey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.indiabudget.gov.in\/economicsurvey\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question &#8211; On 31 January 2022, Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the &#8220;Economic Survey, 2021-22&#8221; in the Parliament. With reference to this, consider the following statements:(i) India\u2019s growth rate is estimated to be 8.0 to 8.5 percent in the year 2022-23.(ii) A growth rate of 3.9 percent is expected in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":131292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-131291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131293,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131291\/revisions\/131293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}