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Economic Division

The Economic Division is headed by Chief Economic Adviser. The main functions of the Division are advisory in nature. The Division examines domestic and international economic trends and undertakes policy research having a bearing on formulation of economic policies and management of the economy.

Main activities of the Division include:

  1. Monitoring of Prices, Price Policy
  2. Monitoring of trends in Agricultural and Industrial Production
  3. Monitoring of Production, Public Distribution and Foodgrains Stocks held by Government
  4. Analyzing developments related to Money and Credit
  5. Public Finance
  6. Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms
  7. Foreign Trade and Balance of Payments
  8. International Economic Institutions: World Bank and IMF related issues
  9. Preparation of Annual Economic Survey and Mid Year Review of the Economy
  10. Preparation of Macroeconomic backdrop for Quarterly Statement to be placed in Parliament in compliance of the FRBM Act, 2003 (269 KB) PDF File Opens in a new window
  11. Preparation of Economic and Functional Classification of the Central Government Budget
  12. Preparation of Monthly Economic Report and report on State of the Economy
  13. Compilation of Statistical Album on Public Finance
  14. Organizing Pre-budget meetings of the Finance Minister with stake holders
  15. Collection, compilations and quarterly dissemination of External Debt Statistics

Delhi Economics Conclave, 2012

Climate Change Finance Unit

Organizational Chart (13 KB) PDF File Opens in a new window

Constitution of a Committee for evolving a Composite Development Index of States(748 KB) PDF File Opens in a new window

Functional Units

  • Agriculture
    • Monitoring Agriculture production of Rabi and Kharif crops
    • Monitoring progress of Monsoon and reservoir storage of water resources
    • Capital formation in Agriculture
    • National Horticulture
    • Commodity Budgets - rice, wheat, pulses, oil seeds and sugar
    • National Commission on Farmers
  • Balance of Payments
    • Monitoring India's Balance of Payments (BoP) developments
    • Exchange rate policy and movements in exchange rate of rupee against major world currencies
    • Monitoring of India's Foreign Exchange Reserves and NR
    • Matters relating to short term BoP Monitoring Group
    • Monitoring of International economic developments
    • Advising on multilateral Institutions (World Bank/IMF) related issues
    • Render advice on related policy issues
  • Coordination and Policy Research
    • Internal administration and coordination in Economic Division
    • Commissioning and coordination of research studies for the work of the Division
    • Training programme for officers of the Economic Division
    • Organisation of seminars and workshops
    • Coordination of preparation of Economic Survey, Mid-Year Review and other publications of the Economic Division
    • Annual Report of the Ministry of Finance (portion relating to Economic Division)
    • Coordination of Parliament work
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