New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- In the run up to theBudget 2025, Union Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman tabled theEconomic Survey 2024-2025 in the Parliament on Jan 31, giving an assessment of the economy's performance in the current financial year while listing out the challenges ahead.

The survey document keepsGDP growth forecast for FY26 in the range of 6.3 to 6.8 percent.

Foreign exchange reserves remain at $640.3 billion at the end of Dec 2024 while the current account deficit stands at 1.2 percent of GDP in Q2FY25, it reveals.

However, an interesting thing relating to retail investors' investing pattern which the survey has revealed is the contribution ofretail investors to mutual funds via systematic investment plan (SIP).

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