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Acknowledgment

The Economic Survey 2021-22 is the result of a team effort. The Survey has benefitted from the comments and insights
of the Hon’ble Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman. The survey sincerely acknowledges the support from the
Hon’ble Ministers of State for Finance Shri Pankaj Chaudhary and Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Finance Secretary Dr.
T. V. Somanathan, Secretary DEA Shri Ajay Seth and Revenue Secretary Shri Tarun Bajaj.
The contributors to the Survey from the Economic Division and Office of the PEA include: Rajiv Mishra, Chandni Raina,
Manisha Sensarma, Saju K. Surendran, Abhishek Acharya, Jitender Singh, T. Gopinath, Sunil Kumar Gupta, Prerna Joshi,
Dharmendra Kumar, Aakanksha Arora, M. Rahul, Harish Kumar Kallega, Tulsipriya Rajkumari, Gurvinder Kaur, Deepika
Srivastava, Neha Singh, Amit Sheoran, Shreya Bajaj, Manoj Kumar Mishra, Deeksha Supyaal Bisht, Anshuman Kamila, Ritika
Bansal, Vijay Kumar Mann, Md. Aftab Alam, Pradyut Kumar Pyne, Narendra Jena, Mritunjay Kumar, Rajesh Sharma, Amit
Kumar Kesarwani, Manish Singh Panwar, Vishal Gori, Mahima, Naveen Bali, Lavisha Arora, Sonali Chowdhry, Abhishek
Malhotra, Surabhi Seth, Yash Rawat, Bharadwaj Adiraju, Dipima Sengupta.

The Survey has benefitted from the comments and inputs from several officials and experts, specifically B.V.R
Subrahmanyam, Amrit Lal Meena, Amit Yadav, Anant Swarup, Amitabha Pradhan, Dr. M. Angamuthu, Gaurav Masaldan,
Dr C. Vanlalramsanga, Ishtiyaque Ahmed, Renu Lata, Rishika Choraria, Dr. Mridul Saggar, Rajiv Jain, Soumasree Tewari,
Deepika Rawat, Sukhbir Singh, Yashwant Sigh, J.P. Singh, Jitender Sokal, Ranjeev, Samir Kumar, Dhrijesh Kumar Tiwari,
Suman Patel, Dr Veena Dhawan, Dr Suhas Dhandore, V Dhanya, Saksham Sood, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Sanjay Kumar Singh,
Dalip Kumar, Dinesh Kapila, Amit Shreeansh, Jasvinder Singh, Naresh Pal Gangwar, Neelesh Kumar Sah, Arun Kumar,
Rajasree Ray, Sonamani Haobam, Dr. Unmana Sarangi, Dr. Subrata Bose, Priti Singh, Sanyukta Samaddar, Shishir Seth,
Kamal Kishore, Mona Chhabra Anand, Ashok Kumar, Abhay Bakre, Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Binod Kumar, Sharmi Palit, R.K.
Sinha, Dr Nandakumaran P, Kamal Pandey, Brij Raj, Amit Kumar, Ishita Sharma, Pawan Chowdhary, Vishal Pratap Singh,
Kusum Mishra, Aditya Kumar Ghosh, Rupa Dutta, Sudhansu Sekhar Das, Aparna S. Sharma, Awadhesh Kumar Choudhary,
Animesh Bharti, Ajith Kumar N, Sanjoy Roy, Sujoy Mitra, J. Rajesh Kumar, Padmakumar Sankaran Nair, Jithesh John,
Gorityala Veer Mahendar, Alok Chandra, Preeti Nath, Arvind Chaudhary, Gaurav Kumar, Shakil Alam, Rajib Kumar Sen,
Nandita Mishra, Ashwini Kumar, Anshuman Mohanty, Usha Suresh, Piyush Srivastava, Simmi Chaudhary, Arun Kumar,
Kuntal Sensarma, Vishal Kapadia, Sunil Kumar Garg, G.S. Panwar, H.K Hajong, Medha Shekar, Sushanta Kumar Das,
Kuldip Narayan, Peeyush Kumar, Baldeo Purushartha, Ajit Ratnakar Joshi, N.K. Santoshi, Deepak Singh, Kalpana Dhawan,
Subhash Chand, Naveen Sirohi, Arpit Bhargava, Arzoo Arora, Rohan Verma, Ram Singh.

Apart from the above, various ministries, departments and organisations of the Government of India contributed in
their respective sectors. We also received help from several industry bodies, public institutions and private sector
entities such as MapmyIndia, NASSCOM, ISRO, FSI, NSO, RBI, SEBI, National Housing Bank, Central Electricity
Authority, IBBI, IRDA, PFRDA, NPPA, ISA, NMDA, CDRI, BEE, NMCG. Able administrative support was given
by Meera Swarup, Anu P. Mathai, Ravinder Kumar, Jasbir Singh, Amit Srivastava, Suresh Arora, Sushil Sharma and
other staff members of the Economic Division. Hindi translation of the survey was done by Niharika Singh, Puran
Singh from Hindi Section, DEA and Gautam Sharma, Manish Bhatnagar, Ajay Kumar Chaudhary, Dhruv Narayan
Azad, Binod Kumar Sah from Central Translation Bureau. Hindi version of the survey was typed by Roopa Gupta,
Meena Pant, Sashipal Singh Rawat, Yatender Kumar from Directorate of Printing, Minto Road. The cover page for
the Survey was designed by India Brand Equity Foundation. Izzur Rahman, Deepak Aggarwal, Samir Ahemed and
Goutam Halder from Signature Printers (P) Ltd. did page setting of the English and Hindi versions of the Survey.

Last but not the least, the Economic Survey owes deep gratitude to the families of all those involved in its preparation for
their patience and support. This is always important, but was especially true this year as the Economic Survey 2021-22
was prepared under the cloud of the Omicron wave.

Sanjeev Sanyal
(Principal Economic Adviser)
Ministry of Finance
Government of India
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