“We still do not have an official poverty line after the Tendulkar [Committee] and the multidimensional poverty index is not quite a poverty line. Should we now have a new poverty line in which this data can be used,” Debroy noted at a Data Users Conference on the household consumer expenditure survey on Wednesday.

The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) has uncovered significant shifts in India's population dynamics, revealing a 7.8% decline in the share of Hindus from 1950 to 2015, contrasting with an upsurge in minority groups.

To position India on the path to becoming a developed nation by 2047, economist Sanjeev Sanyal emphasized the crucial need to sustain the current growth momentum.

The Economic Advisory Council to the PM (EAC-PM) has put forward a groundbreaking proposal aimed at accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in India. The proposal suggests the introduction of a transferable mandate, mandating a certain percentage of vehicles manufactured to be electric.