NOTES

The following f igures/units are used in the Economic Survey:

BCM
BU
MT
lakh
million
crore

billion cubic metres

billion units
million tonnes
1,00,000
10 lakh
10 million

kg

kilogram

ha

hectare

Bbl

billion barrels per litre

billion

1,000 million/100 crore

trillion

1,000 billion/100,000 crore

Acknowledgements
The Economic Survey is a result of teamwork and collaboration. I was assisted in the coordination
tasks by Anandi Subramanian and N.K. Sinha. Contributors to the Survey from the Economic Division
include: H.A.C Prasad, D.S. Kolamkar, Ila Patnaik, Anandi Subramanian, K.L Prasad, A.S. Sachdeva,
Rajat Sachhar, Rajasree Ray, Antony Cyriac, R. Sathish, P. K. Abdul Kareem, N. K. Sinha, Priya Nair,
Rajmal, J.K. Rathee, K.M. Mishra, Rangeet Ghosh, Abhishek Acharya, Kapil Patidar, Syed Zubair
Husain Noqvi, Neha Yadav, Aakanksha Arora, Rabi Ranjan, Deepak Kumar Das, Vijay Kumar, M.
Rahul, Rohit Lamba, Siddharth Eapen George, Sutirtha Roy, V.K. Mann, Riyaz A. Khan, Shobeendra
Akkayi, Salam Shyamsunder Singh, Md. Aftab Alam, Sanjay Kumar Das, Subhash Chand, Praveen
Jain, Narendra Jena, Pradyut Kumar Pyne, Jyotsna Mehta, Kanika Grover and Rajesh.
The survey has greatly benefited from the comments and inputs of officials, specifically, Rajiv Mehrishi,
Saurabh Chandra, Sudhir Kumar, Arbind Modi, K.P.Krishnan, UKS Chauhan and Arunish Chawla;
and a number of external collaborators, including Anant Swarup, Apoorva Gupta, Bimal Jalan, Devesh
Kapur, Fan Zhang, Harsha Vardhana Singh, Jean Dreze, Josh Felman, Karthik Muralidaran,
Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Manish Sabharwal, Mohit Desai, Muthukumar Mani, Namita Mehrotra,
Nandan Nilekani, Nick Stern, Nisha Agrawal, P.S Srinivas, Partha Mukhopadhyay, Pranjul Bhandari,
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Raghuram G. Rajan, Rajiv Lall, Rakesh Mohan, Reetika Khera, Richard Bullock,
Rohini Malkani, Sajjid Chinoy, Sandip Sukhtankar, Sonal Verma, T.V.Somanathan Tushar Poddar and
Vijay Kelkar.
Apart from the above, various ministries, departments, and organisations of the Government of India
made contributions on their respective sectors. Able administrative support was given by Agam
Aggarwal, Sadhna Sharma, Suresh Arora, Amit, Rajat Verma and staff members of the Economic
Division. Amarnath and his team of translators carried out the Hindi translation, while Shalini Shekhar
adeptly edited the document. The Government of India Press, Minto Road and Mayapuri undertook
the printing of the English and Hindi versions of the survey.

Arvind Subramanian
Chief Economic Adviser
Ministry of Finance
Government of India

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