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EAC-PM
Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) is an independent body constituted to give advice on economic and related issues to the Government of India, specifically to the Prime Minister. At present, there are a Chairman, 3 Full-Time Members and 11 Part-Time Members in the EAC-PM.
The composition of EAC-PM is as follows:
Sh. Sanjay Kumar Mishra
Sh. Sanjeev Sanyal
Dr. Shamika Ravi
Sh. Rakesh Mohan
Dr. Sajjid. Z. Chinoy
Sh. Neelkanth Mishra
Sh. Nilesh Shah
Prof. T. T. Ram Mohan
Dr. Soumya Kanti Ghosh
Prof. K. V. Raju
Prof. Chetan Ghate
Prof. Pami Dua
Prof. Pulak Ghosh
Sh. Gaurav Vallabh
The Terms of Reference of EAC-PM include analyzing any issue, economic or otherwise, referred to it by the Prime Minister and advising him thereon, addressing issues of macroeconomic importance and presenting views thereon to the Prime Minister. These could be either suo-motu or on reference from the Prime Minister or anyone else. They also include attending to any other task as may be desired by the Prime Minister from time to time.
Team
Prof. S. Mahendra Dev
Chairman
Shri Sanjeev Sanyal
Member
Shri Sanjay Kumar Mishra
Member
Dr. Shamika Ravi
Member
Dr. Rakesh Mohan
Part-Time Member
Dr. Sajjid Z. Chinoy
Part-Time Member
Shri Neelkanth Mishra
Part-Time Member
Prof. Pulak Ghosh
Part-Time Member
Reports
Constituency Size, Composition and the Case for Delimitation in India’s Lok Sabha (2009–2024)
India holds the largest democratic exercise in the world, and the units of representation in its lower house are correspondingly outsized1,2. The median Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency (PC) registered 1.82 million electors in 2024; the largest crossed 3.2 million. Such scale presses on the logistics of voting in ways rarely visible in comparative-democracy statistics3,4: queues at metropolitan polling booths can run several hours, while small rural and tribal-hill PCs are essentially uncongested. The state-wise allocation of Lok Sabha seats has been frozen at its 1971-Census numbers since the 42nd Constitutional Amendment of 1976, a freeze extended by the 84th Amendment in 2001 to remain in force “until after the first census taken after 2026”5,6. The 2002 Delimitation Commission redrew within-state PC boundaries based on the 2001 Census (the redrawn boundaries first took effect at the 2009 general election), but kept each state’s total seat count frozen. The constitutionally mandated delimitation expected after the 2027 Census will be the first to unfreeze state-wise allocation, redistributing roughly 281 new seats across 36 states and Union Territories. The political question is which constituencies should be split, into how many parts, and on what criterion.
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How to do Process Reforms: Case study of IEPFA
Economic reform debates usually tend to gravitate towards the big reforms. Reforms such as tax system overhauls, introduction of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), inflation targeting usually dominate headlines. These are structural reforms, which make changes to the underlying framework of an economy. While such reforms are important, they overlook a quieter but equally powerful source of improvement, which we term as ‘process reforms’.
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Economic impact analysis of Priority Sector Lending
The policy on priority sector lending has been in place in India for almost five decades and banks are required to direct at least 40% of their overall credit towards the priority sector. The priority sector encompasses a broad range of economic activities such as the provision of credit to small and marginal farmers, micro enterprises and weaker sections aiming to address systemic equity gaps. Growth considerations are also addressed through this policy as the priority sector includes activities that serve as economic multipliers like exports, medium enterprises and corporate farmers.
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Reimagining the Care Economy: From Private Burden to Social and Economic Infrastructure
India’s demographic profile is shifting - a growing share of elders and declining fertility, compounded by rapid urbanisation that is eroding the traditional family structures that have historically provided care. Indian states are at varying stages of this demographic transition– from high child dependency to accelerating elderly dependency. The pressures of declining fertility and ageing have increasingly prompted some state governments to respond through measures aimed at reversing demographic trends or easing the financial cost of raising children.
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What the Data Cannot Say: Small-Sample Inference and India’s National Accounts
The recent paper by Anand, Felman and Subramanian (2026) argues that India’s January 2015 national accounts methodology revision caused GDP growth to be overstated by approximately 1.5-2 percentage points per year between FY2011-12 and FY2024-25. The paper presents evidence for this view using informal-sector survey data, cross-country regressions, and correlation analysis that is the focus of this note. It has gathered some attention in media, and in political discussions, recently.
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Unlocking Rural Property Rights: Social Inclusion and Credit Expansion through SVAMITVA
The Government of India’s introduction of the SVAMITVA scheme marks a landmark policy effort in rural property-rights reform. By seeking to provide formal recognition to residential abadi holdings that have long remained outside clear legal and financial records, the scheme lays foundation for stronger tenure security, better local governance and wider participation in formal credit markets. This paper evaluates how SVAMITVA by formalizing rural property rights has significantly enabled women and those at the bottom the pyramid to leverage such residential property rights as a collateral to gain access to formal credit. Using granular level data and high-dimensional fixed-effects difference-in-differences and triple-difference specifications, the baseline estimates show that sanctioned loan amounts increased by 23% in districts where SVAMITVA were implemented after rollout. The gains are distributionally progressive: borrowers from backward classes experience an additional 21% increase , while borrowers in Aspirational Districts record an additional 23% increase, both over common treatment effect of 23%. Among women, the strongest gains are concentrated at the bottom of the pyramid: the bottom 20% of women borrowers see a 24% increase in sanctioned loan amounts. In particular, across all such women, Muslim women exhibit an incremental 5.8% increase over the common treatment effect of 23%. This increase is significant as Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act that was passed in 2019 rendered the practice of triple talaq void and aimed to strengthen Muslim women’s legal protection. Thus, it is the possible that 2021 SVAMTIVA act coupled with 2019 Muslim Women Act has created a favorable institutional impact. Overall, the findings suggest that SVAMITVA relaxed collateral constraints, deepened formal credit access, and did so in a socially and spatially inclusive manner. We recommend that a SVAMITVA-like scheme be launched in urban India as well to integrate scattered land records across states and the ongoing NAKSHA scheme be extended to all Urban Local Bodies.
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