Second edition of Tamil Nadu’s economic survey likely to be released on Monday

The Tamil Nadu government is likely to release its second Economic Survey on Monday (February 16, 2026), a day before the presentation of the interim budget in the Assembly for 2026-27.

Prepared by the State Planning Commission, the document has been fed with inputs of the State Finance Department largely. Multiple persons have contributed articles to the second edition of the Survey, which may have a chapter on women’s participation. 

As of now, the Centre has not yet made public the figure for the current year (2025-26)’s estimated growth rate. From 2012-13 to 2023-24, Tamil Nadu economy grew at an average real rate of 6.37%, compared to the national average of 6.1%. During 2024-25, its Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) registered a growth rate of 11.2%, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s handbook statistics on Indian States.

The Economic Survey prepared by the Union Finance Ministry, which was made a few weeks ago, placed the country’s real economic growth rate at 7.4%.for the country. So, the State’s rate is expected to be higher than this, even though the degree of difference may vary. Eventually, it may turn out to be in double digit, but it remains to be seen whether the State will surpass the record of the year 2024-25, an observer of the State economy says.

In the last 20-odd years, the State’s economic (real) growth rate was, on a majority of the occasions, higher than that of the all-India average.