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Acknowledgment

The Economic Survey is a result of teamwork and collaboration. Contributions to the Survey from the Economic
Division include: Sanjeev Sanyal, Rajiv Mishra, A Srija, Chandni Raina, Surbhi Jain, Abhishek Acharya, Jitender
Singh, Abinash Dash, T. Gopinath, Kapil Patidar, Rajani Ranjan, Prerna Joshi, Dharmendra Kumar, Aakanksha
Arora, M. Rahul, harish Kumar Kallega, Tulsipriya Rajkumari, Gurvinder Kaur, Neha Singh, Sanjana Kadyan,
Amit Sheoran, Shreya Bajaj, Manoj Kumar Mishra, Deeksha Supyaal Bisht, Subhash Chand, Riyaz Ahmad Khan,
Md. Aftab Alam, Pradyut Kumar Pyne, Narendra Jena, Mritunjay Kumar, Rajesh Sharma, Amit Kumar Kesarwani,
Shobeendra Akkayi, Mahima, Naveen Bali, Lavisha Arora, Sonali Chowdhry, Tanisha Agrawal.

The Survey has benefitted from the valuable comments and insights of the Hon’ble Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala
Sitharaman, hon’ble Minister of State for Finance Shri Anurag Singh Thakur and Shri Tarun Bajaj, Secretary DEA.

The Survey benefitted from the comments and inputs from officials spread across various Ministries/Departments
and organisations, specifically Anup Wadhawan, Secretary, Department of Commerce, Pawan Kumar Agarwal,
Special Secretary (Logistics), Department of Commerce, Amit Yadav, Director General, DGFT, M/o Commerce
and Industry, Bidyut Behari Swain, Additional Secretary & Director General, DGTR, M/o Commerce and Industry,
Amitabha Pradhan, Director General, DGCI&S, Kolkata, Arun Kumar Jha, Director General, National Productivity
Council, Anant Swarup, Joint Secretary (Logistics), Department of Commerce, Praveen Mahto, Economic Adviser,
Department of Commerce, Renu Lata, Director, Department of Commerce, Shruti Shukla, Joint Director, DGCI&S,
Kolkata, Pratiyush Kumar, Additional Private Secretary (APS) to Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Tuhina
Das, Deputy Director, Department of Commerce, Rishika Choraria, Assistant Director, Department of Commerce,
Subhankar Pramanik, Assistant Director, DGCI&S, Kolkata, Love Gogia, Consultant, Department of Commerce,
Arpit Bhargava, Consultant, Department of Commerce; Baldeo Purushartha, JS, IPF Division, DEA; Assistant
Commissioner, NCTF Secretariat, Department of Revenue, Dr. Mridul K Sagar, Executive Director, Reserve Bank
of India (RBI), Deba Prasad Rath, Officer-in-Charge, RBI, Rajiv Jain, Director, RBI, John Guria, RBI, Soumasree
Tewari, Assistant Adviser, RBI, Ranjeev, Assistant Adviser, RBI, Jitender Sokal, Manager, RBI, Ajit Ratnakar
Joshi, Officer-in-charge, DSIM, RBI, Rajat Sinha, Director, CSD, RBI, Anand Prakash, Director, MPD, RBI;
Sukhbir Singh, Controller of Aid, Accounts &Audit Division (CAAA), DEA, J.P. Singh, Aid, Accounts &Audit
Division, DEA, Tirthankar Mandal, Deepak Sriram Krishnan, Pamli Deka and Namrata Ginoya from World
Resources Institute, Labanya Prakash Jena, Climate Policy Initiative; Rajat Sachar, Principal Adviser, DPIIT;
Usha Suresh, Sr. Adviser, MoP&NG, Ms. Indrani Kaushal, EA, MoP&NG, Shri Arun Kumar, Economic Adviser,
MohFW, Shri Gaurav Katiyar, DD, MoP&NG; Raj Pal, Sr. Adviser, Ministry of Power, Vandana Aggarwal, Sr.
Adviser, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Dinesh Kapila, Economic Adviser, Moh&UA, Arvind Chaudhary, Economic
Adviser, MoPS&W, Agrim Kaushal, Economic Adviser, DPE, Animesh Bharti, Economic Adviser, Ministry of
Coal, Anshuman Mohanty, Economic Adviser, MoRT&h; Santanu Mitra, ADC, MSME, Ashwini Lal, Director,
MSME, Deepak Rao, JDC, MSME, Alok Chandra, Economic Adviser, Ministry of Mines, Preeti Nath, Economic
Adviser, Department of Telecommunications, Awadhesh Kumar Choudhary, Economic Adviser, Ministry of Steel,
Gaurav Kumar, Economic Adviser, Ministry of Textiles, Kusum Mishra, Economic Adviser, Ministry of Railways;
S.V. Ramana Murthy, DDG, and Ms. R. Savithri, DDG, MoSPI.

Apart from the above, various Ministries, Departments and organisations of the Government of India like Goods
and Services Tax Network (GSTN), Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), Central Board of Direct
Taxation (CBDT), Dept. of Post, Railway Board (Ministry of Railways), Controller General of Accounts (CGA),
Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), Department for Promotion of Industry and

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