How should UPSC students read Economic Survey 2020-21 [OR] is | ECONOMY by VIVEK SINGH

How should UPSC students read Economic Survey 2020-21 [OR] is it really required to read Economic Survey 2020-21 ??

Answer: Just scanned the pages of the Survey both volumes I & II. The following is my observation for UPSC aspirants

1) It is 700 page document (Vol I & II) and very technical in nature. The first volume discusses all the Mathematical models which is of no significance for aspirants. The second volume has relevant topics but it captures so much of data that I do not see that any student can read and remember it. Every exam has specific requirements. The way the information is presented in the Survey, any student will get lost while reading it and he cannot extract the relevant info from it. 90% of the things is irrelevant for UPSC aspirants and may be less than 10% relevant but the way its intermixed, its very difficult for students to read and extract and so much of data that only teacher can inter relate it. Looking at the economic data without inter relating has no significance as u just cant remember.

As you guys must have realized that, this Channel is presenting the information and data in a particular way and only relevant things so that it makes sense for students and they can understand and retain the things. I am not criticizing Eco Survey, I am just saying that the target audience is not USPC students.

I am religiously reading the Survey for last 8 years and following UPSC questions too and with experience I know what information should be given to you and in which manner. For example there were 1000s of graphs last year in Survey and I just gave few (around 10) in my ECO 500 and there was a ditto question from the graph which I gave. For example see this link https://t.me/VivekSingh_Economy/2462 and the same thing happened in mains also few days back.

So, I am reading the Survey properly and its relevant information will be integrated in the upcoming BOOK (15th Feb) and MCQ (mid April) depending on the type of content. If I see something technical/complex I will provide video also (but do not wait for it).

Teaching Economic Survey Exclusively (or launching a course for it) is a disaster for students. It is always better to focus on your syllabus and see if there is anything extra relevant from the Economic Survey.

But as a UPSC aspirant, to get a feel of economic survey you can read todays newspapers HINDU/EXPRESS which are full of articles regarding what the Survey is trying to emphasize on. You can also see these pib links for summary of Survey:
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1693232
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1693231

So, relax and focus on syllabus and let me also focus on the Book (15th Feb) and ECO MCQ (Mid April) which will cover everything in proper way.