In order to analyse economic and other issues Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday constituted a five-member Economic Advisory Council (EAC), headed by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy, an official announcement said.
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," it said, adding that 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.