Economic Survey: Degrees are rising, job certainty isn’t; tomorrow’s Budget gets tested here

The Economic Survey 2025–26 reads like a map of where Indian education quietly loses people—after Class 8, at the school-to-work handover, and in the steady outward rush of students seeking predictability. On Budget eve, the question isn’t another scheme. It’s whether spending will strengthen the weak joints—so families don’t have to keep paying privately for certainty.