Economic Survey 2025-26 key highlights: 'FTA with Europe will strengthen India's manufacturing competitiveness'

Survey projects GDP growth in the range of 6.8 to 7.2 per cent in 2026-27

Here are the key takeaways from the Economic Survey 2025-26 tabled in the Lok Sabha by Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

The survey projected the GDP growth in the range of 6.8 to 7.2 per cent in 2026-27, a tad lower than 7.4 per cent estimated in the current fiscal.

Here are the key takeaways from the Economic Survey:

• Rupee a casualty of foreign capital flows drying up; Indian currency underperformed in 2025.

• India needs to prioritise domestic growth in an uncertain global environment; it requires greater emphasis on buffers and liquidity.

• FTA with Europe will strengthen India's manufacturing competitiveness, export resilience and strategic capacity.

• Realising potential of trade agreements requires India to produce competitively, says Economic Survey on a string of FTA deals signed.

• GST rejig, reforms converted global uncertainty into opportunity; FY27 to be a year of adjustment as economy adapts to these changes.

• It calls for deeper system-level institutional capacity that factors in geopolitical implications of India's rise.

• Rupee valuation does not accurately reflect India’s stellar economic fundamentals.

• Cumulative impact of policy reforms over recent years appears to be lifting India's medium-term growth potential to near 7 per cent.

• Strong, stable currency a natural corollary for achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat and global influence.

• No space for pessimism, but need to be cautious amid global uncertainty.