PM constitutes Economic Advisory Council

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today constituted a five-member Economic Advisory Council (EAC) which will analyse economic and other issues, an official announcement said.

Headed by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy, the EAC includes NITI Aayog’s Principal Advisor Ratan Watal as its member and economists Surjit Bhalla, Rathin Roy and Ashima Goyal as part-time members.

“The five-member council consists of economists of high repute and eminence,” said an official statement.

Terms of reference of the EAC would be to “analyse any issue, economic or otherwise, referred to it by the Prime Minister and advising him thereon,” the statement said. (AGENCIES)