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Acknowledgment

The Economic Survey 2020-21 is a result of teamwork and collaboration. The Survey has benefited from the
comments and insights of the Hon’ble Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman and Hon’ble Minister of State
for Finance Shri. Anurag Singh Thakur. The Survey has also benefited from the comments and inputs of various
officials, specifically Tarun Bajaj, T. V. Somanathan, Rajiv Kumar, Shekhar C. Mande, Renu Swarup, Ashutosh
Sharma, Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan, Guruprasad Mohapatra, Ajay Prakash Sawhney, A.K. Sharma and Indu Bhushan.

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,.

The Survey benefited from the comments and inputs from officials, specifically Manish Kumar Jha, Deputy
Secretary, DEA, Bikram Nath, Deputy Director, DEA, Ishita Das, Deputy Director, Survey Design & Research
Division, MoSPI, Parveen Arora, Advisor, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Anita Gupta, Adviser,
DST, A.N. Rai, Scientist, DST, Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, Quality Council of India (QCI), Chetak Seethapathi,
Project Manager, QCI, Aishwarya Grover, Project Associate, QCI.

We are also grateful for comments and inputs from numerous academics and practitioners, including Arvind
Panagariya, Sajjid Chenoy, Gautam Chhaochharia, K. Vaidyanathan, Shiv Dixit, Prasanna Tantri, Shashwat
Alok, Yakshup Chopra, Naman Nishesh, Nithin Mannil, Kirti Jain, Vaishali, Sriram Venkataraman, Sandhya
Venkateshwaran, Sabyasachi Kar, Rajesh Raj S.N., Kunal Sen, Sunil Tirumalai, Dipojjal Saha, Avinash Kumar
Pandey, Anup Karan, Maulik Chokshi, Amrita Agarwal, Rana Mehta, Ashwani Aggarwal, Henna Dhawan, Vipul
Aggarwal, Ram Singh. Hemanth Bharatha Chakravarthy

Apart from the above, various Ministries, Departments and Organisations of the Government of India made
contributions in their respective sectors. Several ministries directly interacted with me via presentations to provide
their inputs. The Economic Survey is gratified for their valuable time, engagement and contributions. Able
administrative support was given by K. Rajaraman, Meera Swarup, Ravinder Kumar, Jasbir Singh, Amit Kumar,
Sanjay Kumar Pandita; Sunil Dutt, Rohit; Sushil Sharma, Manish Panwar, Meenakshi Gupta, Suresh Kumar Arora,
Muna Sah, Jodh Singh, Ajbir Singh; S.Ramakrishnan, Satyendra Kishore, Kuldeep Mehra in Office of CEA and
other staff members of the Economic Division. The cover page for the Survey was designed by India Brand Equity
Foundation. Izzur Rahman, N.P Sharma, Deepak Kumar and Gautam Halder from Elegant Publishing (P) Ltd. did
page setting of the English and Hindi version of the Survey.

Finally, the Economic Survey owes deep gratitude to the families of all those involved in its preparation for being
ever so patient, understanding and encouraging and for extending their unflinching emotional and physical support
and encouragement throughout the preparation. The families, indeed, are the unconditional pillars of support for
the dedicated contributors to the Economic Survey.

Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian
Chief Economic Adviser
Ministry of Finance
Government of India

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