Economic Survey Rethinks Rigid Fiscal Rules, Pegs GDP Growth at 7%

INDIA’S LATEST ECONOMIC SURVEY arrives wearing a confident grin, numbers in hand and caution tucked discreetly into the footnotes.

- Ashish Sinha

The headline takeaway is reassuring: medium-term real GDP growth is pegged at a sturdy seven per cent, with FY2027 projected to clock between 6.8 per cent and 7.2 per cent growth. In a world addicted to uncertainty, the Survey's message is refreshingly boring — growth is not a fluke, it is engineered.