Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister

[2] The council serves to highlight key economic issues facing the country to the government of India from a neutral viewpoint.

For administrative, logistic, planning and budgeting purposes, the NITI Aayog serves as the Nodal Agency for the PMEAC.

[2] At one time even the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was a member of the PMEAC[14] The previous EAC had the following officials: The periodic reports of the EAC-PM - the annual Economic Outlook[7] and Review of the Economy - are the most widely followed.

Additionally the remarks and opinions of the Chairman and members of the PMEAC get widespread media coverage and are influential in formulation of the policies of other economic agencies, financial institutions and businesses.

[15] Many financial periodicals publish interviews and speeches of PMEAC Chairman[16] to understand the most critical economic woes facing the country like inflation, monetary measures,[17] etc.

[21] Among the widely read periodic reports of the PMEAC - the annual Economic Outlook[7] and Review of the Economy, the following are the latest editions.