In Pictures: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tables Economic Survey 2024-2025

Union Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey for the next fiscal year 2024-25 in the Parliament on Friday. For the next fiscal year, the Survey projected India’s economy to expand between 6.3 and 6.8 per cent. (PTI Photo)

Soon after Sitharaman tabled the pre-budget document, the Opposition MPs created ruckus and both the Houses of the Parliament were adjourned for the day. The Budget session will commence on Saturday and the Economic Survey provides an assessment of the key developments like slowing growth, declining value of the rupee against the US dollar, and subdued consumption demand. The survey outlines the developments in the economy and various sectors, in addition to providing an outlook for the next financial year. (PTI)

Authored by the Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran and his team of officials, the Economic Survey has recommended that India needs to go all out to “attract, promote and facilitate further domestic and foreign investments”. After the Survey was tabled, the 30-share benchmark Sensex was trading about a per cent higher in intraday trade at 77,501.55. (PTI photo)

Commencing the Budget session, President Droupadi Murmu said the government's third term is seeing work being done at thrice the speed of previous administrations with a determination to end "policy paralysis". President Murmu made the remark citing the Centre's decisions on issues such as Waqf boards and One Nation, One Election. (PTI photo)

"Many employment opportunities are being created as various steps are being taken for economic empowerment of the cooperative sector," President Murmu said. The Finance Minister will present the Union Budget on Saturday for the eighth consecutive time. (PTI photo)

Ahead of the Budget session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “In the third term, we will focus on India’s all-round development. We are moving ahead on mission mode…Innovation, inclusion and investment form the base of our economic activity." (PTI photo)

President Droupadi Murmu said, “Today, India is making its presence felt as a major global player in the field of digital technology…Developed nations of the world are also impressed with the success of India’s UPI transactions system…My Government has used digital technology as a tool for social justice and equality.”

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said that tentatively 16 items of legislative business and three items of financial business have been identified for being taken up during this session. The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs also stated that the Government is prepared and ready to discuss any other important issue on the floor of the Houses as per rules of both Houses. (PTI photo)

Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, JP Nadda, and Kiren Rijiju during an all-party meeting, ahead of the Budget session of Parliament. (PTI photo)

Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi stoked a controversy with her comments regarding President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. The BJP, while hitting out at the senior Congress leader, demanded an apology. “The President was getting very tired by the end. She could hardly speak, poor thing,” Sonia Gandhi said while Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi called the speech “boring”. (PTI Photo)

The President arrived in a six-horse driven ceremonial buggy and was escorted by the horse-mounted Presidential bodyguard. President Murmu was given a guard of honour in the lawns of the Parliament building and was escorted to the Lok Sabha chamber by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Birla and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju. (PTI photo)

India faces “single-source concentration risk” in multiple areas, especially from neighbouring China, which exposes India to “potential supply chain disruptions, price fluctuations, and currency risks,” the Economic Survey said. It is imperative for India to attract investments in order to achieve its goal of becoming a competitive and innovative economy, according to the Economic Survey 2024-25. (PTI photo)