📘 HP Economic Survey 2024–25

Chapter-wise Notes, PDF Links, & Exam-Wise Relevance

Welcome to your one-stop resource for the Himachal Pradesh HP Economic Survey 2024–25. The Economic Survey is a crucial document that highlights the state’s economic condition, sectoral performance, and public policy updates.

It is highly relevant for HPAS, HP Allied, Naib Tehsildar, HPSSC, and other Himachal Pradesh Government exams—especially for Prelims (Current Affairs, HP GK) and GS Paper III Mains (Economy & Environment).

🛠️ Prepared By:
Department of Economics & Statistics, Government of Himachal Pradesh

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📌 Why This HP Economic Survey 2024-25 is Important for Exam Aspirants?

Covers HP-specific economic data, growth trends, and policies
Frequently referenced in HPAS GS3 Mains answers
Multiple Prelims MCQs are framed from economic indicators & sector-wise stats
Useful for essay writing and interview prep

🔗 Quick Navigation: Chapter-Wise Sections of HP Economic Survey 2024-25

Click on any chapter to read detailed notes, stats, and analysis.

📝 Format & Presentation of Notes

Each chapter contains:

Key statistics and growth trends
Major schemes and initiatives
Sector-specific GS3 and Prelims relevance
Tables and figures from the official document
Bullet-point summaries for quick revision

🎯 HP Economic Survey 2024-25 is Suitable For:

Exam	Paper	Relevance Type
HPAS (Prelims + Mains)	GS Paper III, HP GK	High
HP Allied Services	Prelims & Mains	High
Naib Tehsildar, HPSSC	HP GK / Economics Section	Moderate to High
HP TET / Lecturer Exam	Current Affairs & HP GK	Moderate
Interview Stage (HPPSC)	Policy, schemes, economy	High

📥 Source of Data

This content is extracted and simplified from the official Himachal Pradesh Economic Survey 2024–25, published by the:

Department of Economics and Statistics
Government of Himachal Pradesh

🔄 Updates & Availability

🔄 Updated for FY 2024–25
📅 Based on data till March 2024

📘 HP Economic Survey 2024–25: Key Highlights (Chapters 1–18)

Prepared by the Economics & Statistics Department, Government of Himachal Pradesh

This summary provides chapter-wise key insights from the HP Economic Survey 2024–25, focusing on facts relevant for HPAS Prelims, GS3 Mains, and other state competitive exams.

📈 Chapter 1 of HP Economic Survey 2024-25: General Review

🌍 Global growth rate projected by OECD (2025): 3.3%
🌏 India & South Asia seen as major global growth drivers
🇮🇳 India’s Real GDP (2024–25 AE): ₹184.88 lakh crore
- Growth: 6.4% (↓ from 8.2% in FY2023–24 PE)
💰 Nominal GDP Growth: 9.7% in FY2024–25 (↑ from 9.6%)
📊 Major GDP contributors in FY2023–24:
- Manufacturing, Construction, Public Admin., Financial & Real Estate
👥 Per Capita Net National Income (India): ₹2,00,162
🏞️ Himachal GSDP (2023–24): ₹2,10,662 crore
(↑ from ₹1,91,659 crore in 2022–23 → Growth: 9.9%)
🚜 Agriculture & Allied Sector contribution to GSDP:
- 1950–51: 70.37% → 1990–91: 35.06%
- 2011–12: 17.16% → FY2023–24: 14.74%

💹 Chapter 2: State Income of HP Economic Survey 2024-25:– Macroeconomic View

🏞️ GSDP (2024–25 AE): ₹2,32,185 crore (↑10.2%)
🧮 Real GSDP (constant prices): ₹1,46,553 crore (↑6.7%)
💸 Per Capita Income (FY2024–25): ₹2,57,212
- CAGR (2011–12 to 2024–25): 8.6%
📊 GSVA Sectoral Share (Current Prices):
- Tertiary: 45.3%
- Secondary: 39.5%
- Primary: 15.2%
📉 Workforce share in Secondary (22.01%) & Tertiary (24.01%) is lower than GSVA share → scope for workforce reallocation from agriculture

🏛️ Chapter 3 of HP Economic Survey 2024-25: Public Finance

📥 Revenue Receipts (2024–25 BE): ₹42,153 crore (↑4.22%)
🏦 Tax Revenue (incl. central share): ₹25,225 crore (↑14.99%)
🏫 Major Allocations:
- Education: ₹9,812 crore
- Health: ₹3,390 crore
💵 Grants from Centre: 24.1% of total receipts (↓ by 3.5 percentage points from 2022–23)
📉 Revenue Receipts as % of GSDP: 18.15% (↓ from 19.87%)
🔌 Top non-tax revenue contributors: Electricity, Gas & Water Supply (4.8% of total receipts)
🧾 Total Expenditure (2024–25 BE): ₹58,444 crore
- Capital Expenditure: ₹6,270 crore
- Revenue Expenditure: ₹46,667 crore
📉 Committed Expenditure: ₹33,463 crore
- 57.26% of total expenditure
- 14.41% of GSDP
🏳️‍🌈 Gender Budget: ₹3,065 crore
📊 Debt-to-GSDP (2022–23): 39.99% (↑ from 37.35%)

🏦 Chapter 4 of HP Economic Survey 2024-25: Banking and Institutional Finance

🏢 Total Bank Branches: 2,352
- Rural: 76% (1,793 branches)
- Semi-Urban: 451
- Urban (only Shimla): 108
🏛️ Public Sector Banks (PSBs): 1,177 branches
- PNB: 354 | SBI: 349 | UCO Bank: 181
🏙️ District with most branches: Kangra (431)
- Least: Lahaul-Spiti (26)
🏧 Total ATMs Installed: 2,120
🚜 Agriculture Loans: 16.73% of total lending
(below RBI norm of 18%)
👥 PM Jan Dhan Yojana Accounts: 18.55 lakh
- Rural: 16.6 lakh | Urban: 1.95 lakh
📈 CD Ratio: 47.16%
🛡️ PM Suraksha Bima Yojana Subscribers: 35.22 lakh

🛒 Chapter 5 of HP Economic Survey 2024-25: Price Movement & Food Management

📉 CPI Inflation:
- Overall: ↓ from 5.0% (FY24) to 4.2% (FY25)
- Rural: ↓ from 5.1% → 4.4%
- Urban: ↓ from 4.7% → 3.3%
⛽ Fuel & Light Group: -20.2% impact on overall inflation
📦 Wholesale Price Index (WPI) (Apr–Dec FY2024–25): 2.2%
🛒 Targeted PDS:
- 5,330 Fair Price Shops
- TPDS distributes wheat, rice, sugar, atta, etc.
🛍️ HP Civil Supplies Corporation:
- FY2024–25 Turnover: ₹2,100+ crore
- Cement Bags Distributed: 32.36 lakh (₹101.93 crore)
🌽 Natural Farming Initiative:
- Maize procurement (as per CM’s budget announcement) carried out via Agri Department

🌾 Chapter 6 of HP Economic Survey 2024-25: Agriculture & Horticulture

🔹 Agriculture:

🌱 Agriculture & Allied GSVA increased 53%: ₹21,000 cr (FY21) → ₹32,000 cr (FY25 AE)
🌾 Crop GSVA increased 78%: ₹12,000 cr (FY21) → ₹22,000 cr (FY25 AE)
📈 CAGR (FY21–25):
- Agriculture & Allied Sector: 11.22%
- Crops Subsector: 15.43%
🧮 GSVA Share of Agri Sub-sectors (FY25 AE):
- Crops: 68.7% of agri GSVA | 10.1% of total GSVA
- Livestock: 9.24% | 1.36%
- Forestry: 21.09% | 3.10%
- Fishery: 0.94% | 0.14%
📊 Food Grains vs Commercial Crop Share in Total Crop Production:
- Food Grains: 41.75%
- Commercial Crops: 58.25%
🧪 Infrastructure:
- 11 Soil Testing Labs
- 3 Fertilizer Labs, 3 Seed Labs
- 2 Bio-control Labs
- 1 Bio-fertilizer Lab & 1 Pesticide Lab

🔹 Horticulture:

🌳 Area under horticulture: 2.37 lakh hectares (↑ from 792 ha in 1950–51)
🍎 Apple Share:
- 49.06% of fruit area
- 79.51% of fruit production
📦 FY25: 37,653 MT of C-grade apples procured under Market Intervention Scheme (₹45.18 cr)
🍇 Total fruit production (FY24): 6.37 lakh MT
- FY25 (up to Dec 2024): 5.92 lakh MT
- 3.31 lakh fruit plants distributed, 1,295 ha under new plantations

🐄 Chapter 7 of HP Economic Survey 2024-25: Animal Husbandry

🐮 Crossbreed Cattle Share: 58.48% of total cattle population (Livestock Census 2019)
📊 State share in India (Livestock):
- 0.82% livestock
- 0.16% poultry
- Rank: 20th in cattle, 27th in poultry
💰 Livestock GVO (Current Prices):
- FY19: ₹5,496 cr → FY25: ₹7,326 cr
🥛 Milk Production (CAGR 3.6%):
- FY13: 11.39 lakh tonnes → FY25: 17.50 lakh tonnes (estimated)
🐑 Sheep Shearing (FY25): 1,10,136 sheep, 600 breeder families
🥛 Milkfed Societies: 1,148 | Members: 47,905
🐟 Fish Production CAGR: 3.3% (2012–24)

🌲 Chapter 8 of HP Economic Survey 2024-25: Forestry, Environment & Water Resources

🌲 Forest Coverage:
- Actual Forest Area: 15,580 sq km (27.99%)
- Designated Forest Land: 37,948 sq km (68.16%)
🔍 Forest Density Classification:
- Very Dense: 3,118 sq km
- Moderately Dense: 7,280 sq km
- Open Forest: 5,182 sq km
💰 Forestry GSVA (FY25): ₹6,724 cr
- 21.09% of Agri GSVA | 3.10% of total GSVA
🌱 Plantation Target FY25: 8,000 ha (Achieved: 6,715 ha)
🚱 Plastic Ban: Enforced via HP Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 1995
🚰 Jal Jeevan Mission:
- Total rural households: 17.09 lakh
- Achieved 100% Functional Household Tap Connections (FHTC)
💧 Irrigation:
- Target (FY25): 2,740 ha Culturable Command Area
- Achieved till Oct 2024: 1,002 ha | Cost: ₹11.93 cr

🏭 Chapter 9 of HP Economic Survey 2024-25: Industries

🥇 Startup Ranking 2023: HP ranked ‘Best Performer’
🧁 PMFME Scheme: HP ranked 1st in India
🏢 Udyam Registrations (Jan 2025):
- Total: 1.95 lakh
- Micro: 1.91 lakh (98%)
- Small: 3,571 | Medium: 392
📦 Industrial Focus Areas: IT Parks, Data Centres, Adventure & Wellness Tourism, AYUSH, Education
💼 Industrial Sector GSVA (FY25): ₹86,695 crore
- 40% of total GSVA
🏭 Manufacturing Contribution: 65.49% of Industry GSVA
- Growth Rate (FY25): 7.1%
👥 Workforce Distribution (PLFS 2023–24):
- Primary: 53.98%
- Secondary: 22.01%
- Tertiary: 24.01%

⚡ Chapter 10 of HP Economic Survey 2024-25: Power Sector

🔌 HEP Projects Commissioned (Apr–Dec 2024):
- Total: 5 | Capacity: 40 MW
- Notable: Selti Masrang HEP (24 MW – Kinnaur), Luni SHEP (4.5 MW – Kangra)
💰 Power Revenue (FY25):
- Till Dec 2024: ₹1,535 cr
- Expected by Mar 2025: ₹265 cr (royalty + sale)
💡 HPSEBL HEPs:
- Projects: 27 | Installed Capacity: 489.35 MW
- Energy Generation FY24: 1,664 MU | FY25 (till Dec): 1,528 MU
🏗️ New HEP Allotments:
- Devi Kothi (16 MW), Sai Kothi-I (15 MW), Sai Kothi-II (18 MW), Hail HEP (18 MW) – all in Chamba
☀️ Solar Power Project – Bilaspur (5 MW):
- Electricity Generated (Dec 2024): 48.2 MU | Target: 50.4 MU
🔆 Phase-I Solar Initiatives:
- Provisional Letters: 83 projects | Capacity: 73.6 MW
- PPAs Signed: 58 | Capacity: 54.56 MW
- Commissioned: 31 projects (11.85 MW)
- Expected by Mar 2025: 5 MW more

🧑‍🏭 Chapter 11 of HP Economic Survey 2024–25: Labour and Employment

🧮 Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR): 60.5% (HP) – higher than Uttarakhand (46.2), Punjab (43.7), Haryana (37.4), and India (45.1)
👷‍♀️ Worker Population Ratio (WPR): 57.2% (HP) vs 43.7% (India)
- Female WPR in HP: 51.8% – significantly higher than national average
📉 Unemployment Rate (2023–24):
- Overall: 5.4%
- Rural: 3.2% (Male), 7.0% (Female)
- Urban: 4.8% (Male), 18.2% (Female)
🛠️ HPKVN Skill Development:
- Projects: HPSDP (ADB) & PMKVY 4.0
- RPL Candidates: Enrolled – 10,622 | Certified – 8,181

🛣️ Chapter 12 of HP Economic Survey 2024–25: Tourism, Road and Transport

🏞️ Tourist Footfall (till Dec 2024): 181.24 lakh (180.41 lakh domestic + 0.83 lakh foreign)
🏨 HPTDC Revenue: ₹74.21 cr (till Nov) | Anticipated (Dec–Mar): ₹34.90 cr
🛕 PRASAD Scheme: Chintpurni Temple Revamp – ₹57.57 cr (revised DPR)
🚗 Registered Vehicles: 23.91 lakh
💰 Transport Dept Revenue: ₹656.80 crore
🧾 Driving Schools Licensed: 408 | Pollution Check Centres: 322
👷 Employment via Permits: 46,805 people
⚡ EV Charging:
- Phase 1: 100 sites (46 Govt + 54 Petrol Pumps)
- FY25: Additional 43 petrol pumps selected

📚 Chapter 13 of HP Economic Survey 2024–25: Education

🏫 School Network:
- Primary: 9,943 | Middle: 1,786 | High: 961 | Sr. Sec: 1,988
- Degree Colleges: 145 (Govt.)
📖 Literacy (NFHS-5):
- Overall: 93.3% | Male: 94.9% | Female: 91.7% | Gap: 3.2%
📘 Apna Vidyalaya: 1,765 schools adopted
🎓 Scholarships:
- IRDP/BPL: ₹500–₹700 (1st–8th Std) | Beneficiaries: 65,495
- Dr. Ambedkar Medhavi: ₹18,000 | SC: 1,770 | OBC: 704

🏥 Chapter 14 of HP Economic Survey 2024–25: Health

🏨 Healthcare Infrastructure:
- Hospitals: 115 | CHCs: 106 | PHCs: 585 | Sub-Centres: 2,114 | ESI: 24
🏥 HIMCARE:
- ₹5 lakh coverage/family | Families Registered: 5.63 lakh | Claims: ₹259.30 cr
👶 JSSK (Free Maternal Services): 1,02,606 women (Apr–Nov FY25)
🎓 Medical Education:
- MBBS: 870 Seats | MD/MS: 339 Seats
🔬 Research Grant: ₹18.90 cr for “Ashwagandha: A Health Revolution”
🏗️ Major Projects:
- RPGMC Tanda Lecture Complex: ₹14.13 cr
- RKGMC Hamirpur: ₹375 cr (Hospital + Academic Block)

❤️ Chapter 15 of HP Economic Survey 2024–25: Social Welfare

👶 Mukhya Mantri Sukh Aashray Yojana:
- 449 children covered (education, skill, start-up)
👵 Pensions & Relief Schemes:
- Old Age, Widow, Special Ability, Ekal Nari
💼 Self-Employment Support:
- SC/ST, Backward & Minority Corporations
👩‍🦼 Loans for Specially-Abled via HP Minorities Finance Corp
👧 Women & Child Welfare:
- Beti Hai Anmol, Bal Udhar, Child Protection, Sashakt Mahila
💸 New Scheme:
- Indira Gandhi Pyari Behna Sukh Samman Nidhi: ₹1500/month

🏡 Chapter 16 of HP Economic Survey 2024–25: Rural Development and Panchayati Raj

🧑‍🎓 DDU-GKY (Till Dec 2024):
- Trained: 17,254 | Employed: 11,690 | Placed: 9,656
💧 Springshed Project: 414 springs revived across 23 areas
🏠 Mukhya Mantri Awaas Yojana: 351 houses sanctioned
🚽 SBM-G ODF+ Villages:
- Total: 16,067
  - Aspiring: 1,857 | Rising: 717 | Model: 13,493
🗳️ Panchayati Raj Structure:
- ZPs: 12 | PSs: 81 | GPs: 3,615
💰 15th FC Grant FY25: ₹352 cr sanctioned, ₹229.19 cr released
👩 Matri Shakti Bima Yojana: Covers BPL women (10–75 yrs) for accidental protection

🏙️ Chapter 17 of HP Economic Survey 2024–25: Housing and Urban Development

🏠 HIMUDA Output:
- Houses: 13,289 | Plots: 5,621
🏛️ Urban Local Bodies (ULBs):
- 74 (8 MCs, 29 Municipal Councils, 37 Nagar Panchayats)
💡 Urban Livelihood Schemes:
- ALFs: 30 | CLFs: 13
- Loans: ₹3.11 cr (227 people) + ₹7.96 cr (367 SHGs)
- Street Vendors Identified: 4,973
🚿 MMSAGY Portal:
- Beneficiaries: 18,012
- Man-days: 6,76,846 | Disbursed: ₹19.20 cr
🧾 E-DCR for Building Permissions
🏘️ Real Estate Regulation:
- Projects: 214 | Agents: 131

💻 Chapter 18 of HP Economic Survey 2024–25: Digital Technologies & Governance

☎️ MMSS Helpline:
- Complaints: 1,21,118
- Resolved: 1,05,345 (87%)
- Satisfied: 82,237 (68%)
🖥️ e-Office Integration:
- 108 Secretariat Branches, 98 Directorates, 12 DCs, 13 SPs, 457 Offices onboarded
🌐 Online Services (FY25):
- Total Services: 294 | New Added: 77
💸 DBT Transfers:
- ₹1,274.17 cr to 17.45 lakh beneficiaries across 52 schemes
🌐 HIMSWAN: 1,936 Govt Offices Connected
⚖️ Revenue Court System:
- Cases Filed: 1,21,246
- Cases Disposed: 61,353