Post Meet, PM’s Economic Advisory Council Names 10 Key Focus Areas

The council will reconvene in November for its second summit, with a focus on next year’s budget.

The Prime Minister's newly-constituted Economic Advisory Council held its first meeting at the NITI Aayog on Wednesday, 11 October.

Speaking to the media after the meeting, chairman Bibek Debroy said the council told the Prime Minister that 10 ‘key areas’ have been identified that it will begin working on immediately.

• Economic growth
• Employment and job creation
• Informal sector and integration of informal sector
• Fiscal framework
• Monetary policy
• Public expenditure and efficiency of public expenditure
• Institutions of the economic governance
• Agriculture and animal husbandry
• Patterns of consumption and production
• Social sector