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PM's Economic Advisory Council to focus on 10 major areas
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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Oct, 2017
The newly-constituted Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
would focus on 10 major priority areas including accelerating economic
growth, creating employment opportunities, reviewing public expenditure
and integrating the informal sector, it was announced on Weednesday.
The 10 themes were identified during the first meeting of the Council on Wednesday chaired by NITI Aayog Member Bibek Debroy.
Apart
from giving recommendations to the Prime Minister on those issues, it
would also focus on the next budget preparation over the next few
months, Debroy told reporters here after the meeting.
During the
meeting, the Council took stock of the current economic, fiscal and
monetary policy environment and resolved to focus on accelerating
economic growth and employment in the country over the next six months.
"We have identified 10 themes that we would initially work on till we have our next meeting one month from now," Debroy said.
"The
10 themes identified are economic growth, employment and job creation,
informal sector and integration, fiscal framework, monetary policy,
public expenditure, institutions of economic governance, agriculture and
animal husbandry, patterns of consumption and production, and the
social sector," he added.
The Council members would also come out with specific issue papers to address key concerns.
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High cost of Petrol
V K Gupta | Sat Oct 21 07:49:25 2017
Like wise one may examine the high cost of petrol. This may be because of higher cost of Refinery operation- result of liberal wages, excessive manpower, inadequate measures to control cost and wastages. Higher refinery margines to have high profitability
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