According to Uttarakhand Economic Survey 2024-25, what was the projected growth rate of the Gross State Domestic Product (at constant prices) of Uttarakhand in 2024-25?
- (a)6.31%
- (b)8.52%
- (c)6.61%
- (d)4.22%
Correct — C, 6.61%.
The Survey prints the state row beside the national one. It records 7.83 per cent growth for 2023-24 on provisional estimates, and says the 2024-25 growth rate is likely to be 6.61%.
What to carry away is the price basis, not the digit: "at constant prices" is the inflation-stripped, real number. The same Survey, for the same year at current prices, shows GSDP rising from ₹332.99 thousand crore to about ₹378.24 thousand crore — a rise of 13.59 per cent.
- (a)6.31% — The Survey's state figure for 2024-25 is 6.61 per cent, and 6.31 is that number with its middle digit altered.
If you were reaching for the all-India line printed alongside the state line in the same chapter, the Survey gives 6.4 per cent as India's likely growth for 2024-25, against 8.2 per cent in 2023-24.
- (b)8.52% — For 2024-25 the Survey's real growth figure is 6.61 per cent, so this overstates the projected year.
A higher state number does sit in the same chapter, but it belongs to the year before: 7.83 per cent, Uttarakhand's 2023-24 growth on provisional estimates. Pinning a rate to its year is half of what this question asks.
- (d)4.22% — This sits well under the 6.61 per cent the Survey projects for 2024-25 at constant prices.
For that one year the constant-price rate is 6.61 per cent, while the current-price levels work out to 13.59 per cent. Neither of the two rates for state GSDP in 2024-25 is near 4 per cent.
Gross State Domestic Product is the money value of all goods and services produced within a state in a year. It can be measured on two price bases, and they give different growth rates for the same year.
At current prices, output is valued in that year's own prices, so the total moves with both production and inflation. At constant prices, output is valued in a fixed base year's prices — here 2011-12 — so only the change in real output shows.
A state Economic Survey is the government's own account of its economy. Uttarakhand's is prepared by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics under the Planning Department.
Its 2024-25 numbers were produced while that year was still running, which is why the Survey words them as likely or estimated. The 2023-24 rate it quotes alongside them is a provisional estimate, so the two years carry different statuses.
The same chapter also sets a national row against the state row, so a reader has to pick the right level as well as the right year.
- Uttarakhand Economic Survey 2024-25 puts the state's likely GSDP growth for 2024-25 at 6.61 per cent at constant 2011-12 prices.
- The same Survey records 7.83 per cent growth for the state in 2023-24, on provisional estimates.
- At current prices GSDP moves from ₹332.99 thousand crore to about ₹378.24 thousand crore, a rise of 13.59 per cent.
- Per capita income is projected at ₹2,74,064 for 2024-25, an 11.33 per cent rise over ₹2,46,178 in 2023-24.
- Projected 2024-25 shares in the state economy: primary 9.34 per cent, secondary 44.65 per cent, tertiary 46.02 per cent.
- The Survey's national row gives India 8.2 per cent growth in 2023-24 and a likely 6.4 per cent in 2024-25.
- The Survey is prepared by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Planning Department, Uttarakhand.
Both growth rates describe 2024-25; the gap between them reflects price change, not extra output.
- Two growth rates describe 2024-25 — the Survey's 6.61 per cent at constant prices, and the 13.59 per cent its current-price levels work out to. The price basis named in the stem decides which one is wanted.
- 6.61 and 6.31 differ by a single digit, so the constant-price rate for 2024-25 has to be recalled exactly rather than approximately.
- 7.83 per cent is the 2023-24 rate and it sits in the same chapter as the 2024-25 rate, so the year has to be read as carefully as the number.
- The state and national rows run side by side in the same chapter. India's likely 6.4 per cent for 2024-25 answers a different question from the state's 6.61 per cent.
- Growth in per capita income (11.33 per cent) and growth in GSDP are separate quantities, and both are quoted for the same year.
One shape is straight recall: a named report, a named year, a named price basis, and four percentages placed close together, so the discrimination is between the year, the price basis and the state-versus-national row.
The same content can also be set as a statement-judging item, where a growth rate is paired with a price basis or a year and you decide whether the pairing holds.
A third form asks for the rupee level rather than the rate — the current-price GSDP totals of ₹332.99 and about ₹378.24 thousand crore — which is why the totals are worth remembering with their rate.
RPSC_2018_PRE_Prelims2018_Q712018The same construction: a state commission asking for its own state's GSDP growth rate at constant 2011-12 prices for one named year. What differs is the state and the year — Rajasthan for 2017-18 — and the spread of its options, which run from 4.5 to 10.67 per cent rather than clustering. That value is a Rajasthan statistic, not one that transfers to Uttarakhand.
MPPSC_2018_PRE_PaperI_Q412018Same underlying task, recall a state's GSDP growth number. It differs twice over: the Madhya Pradesh item spans several years (2011-12 to 2015-16) instead of one, and its stem names no price basis, so the constant-versus-current distinction that decides our question is not what is being tested there.
MPPSC_2021_PRE_PaperI_Q942021Same device — "According to Economic Survey X, what rate…", and in both cases the number asked for is a projection rather than a realised figure. It differs in level and source: that item wants the national Economic Survey 2020-21's assumed real growth for financial year 2022 on IMF estimates, ours wants a state Survey's own projection for the state economy.
UPSC_2015_GS1_Q812015Shares the real-versus-nominal distinction that decides our question, but works it as reasoning instead of recall: two statements asking whether a real growth rate and a rupee level of GDP each rose steadily, with no figure to memorise. Ours compresses the same distinction into a single percentage.
UKPSC_2024_MAINS_GSVI_Q32024Same commission and the same habit of naming an Economic Survey and asking for the figure it reports. It differs in indicator and format — gross enrolment ratio for the primary age group from the 2022-23 Survey, to be written out in a mains answer rather than picked from four options.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Uttarakhand Economic Survey 2024-25 puts the state's Gross State Domestic Product at current prices at ₹332.99 thousand crore in 2023-24 and about ₹378.24 thousand crore in 2024-25. The growth rate implied by these figures is:
- (a)6.61%
- (b)11.33%
- (c)13.59%
- (d)7.83%
Answerc — 13.59%. ₹378.24 thousand crore against ₹332.99 thousand crore is a rise of 13.59 per cent, the current-price rate for 2024-25.6.61% is the constant-price rate for the same year, 7.83% is the state's 2023-24 rate, and 11.33% is the projected rise in per capita income.
- practice — not a real PYQ
According to Uttarakhand Economic Survey 2024-25, the per capita income of Uttarakhand for 2024-25 is estimated at:
- (a)₹2,46,178
- (b)₹2,74,064
- (c)₹2,00,162
- (d)₹1,84,205
Answerb — ₹2,74,064. The Survey projects this for 2024-25, an 11.33 per cent rise on the previous year.₹2,46,178 is the state's 2023-24 figure. ₹2,00,162 and ₹1,84,205 are the national per capita income figures the same chapter gives for 2024-25 and 2023-24.
- practice — not a real PYQ
According to Uttarakhand Economic Survey 2024-25, the projected share of the tertiary sector in Uttarakhand's economy in 2024-25 is:
- (a)9.34%
- (b)44.65%
- (c)46.02%
- (d)55.4%
Answerc — 46.02%. That is the tertiary sector's projected share of the state economy for 2024-25.9.34% is the primary sector's share and 44.65% the secondary sector's, both for the same year. 55.4% is the tertiary share the same chapter gives for India, not for Uttarakhand.
- practice — not a real PYQ
According to Uttarakhand Economic Survey 2024-25, the growth rate of Uttarakhand's economy in 2023-24, as per provisional estimates, was:
- (a)6.61%
- (b)6.4%
- (c)7.83%
- (d)8.2%
Answerc — 7.83%. The Survey records this as the state's 2023-24 growth on provisional estimates.6.61% is the state's likely rate for 2024-25. 8.2% is India's provisional-estimate growth for 2023-24, as the Survey's national row reports it, and 6.4% is India's likely rate for 2024-25.