General Review

• Review of Developments
• Macroeconomic Overview
• Production
• Money and Prices
• Fiscal Developments
• Financial Developments
• Balance of Payment
• Social Sectors
• Issues and Priorities
  

Public Finance

• Introduction
• Fiscal and Budgetary Developments in 1997-98 
• Tax Measures : 1997-98
• Post Budget Developments
• Tenth Finance Commission Recommendation
• Centre,States and Union Territories
• Departmental Commercial Undertakings : Fiscal Performance
• Outlook

Monetary & Banking Developments

• Monetary Trends and Developments
• Banking Policy and Trends
• Non-Banking Financial Companies
• All India Financial Institutions
• Outlook

Capital & Money Markets

• Introduction
• Primary Market Reforms
• Secondary Market
• Revised Carry Forward System (RCFS)
• Paperless Trading 
• Secondary Market Developments
• National Stock Exchange (NSE) 
• Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
• Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)
• Global Depository Receipts
• Gilt-Edged Market
• Ways and Means Advances
• Yield Trends
• Government Borrowing
• Money Market Developments
• Outlook
  

Prices and Distribution

• Introduction
• Annual Inflation
• Quarterly Changes in WPI in 1997-98 
• Inflation Based on Consumer Price Movement
• Targeted Public Distribution System
• Foodgrains Procurement and Stocks
• Movement of Agricultural Prices relative to Industrial Prices
• Outlook
  

External Sector

• Introduction
• Balance of Payments
• Invisibles
• Trade Account
• Merchandise Trade
• Gold Import
• Composition of Trade
• Direction of Trade
• Capital Flows
• Equity
• Debt
• Reserves
• Exchange Rate Development
• External Debt
• Outlook
   

Industrial Policy & Development

• General Introduction
• Industrial Policy
• Pattern of Industrial Growth
• Industrial Investment and Associated Trends
• Public Enterprise Policy
• Performance of Selected Public Sector Undertakings
• Performance of Selected Industries
• Small Scale Industry
• Industrial Sickness
• Industrial Relations
• Industrial Pollution
• Outlook
  

Agriculture

• General Introduction
• Monsoon 1997
• Production Performance in 1996-97 and 1997-98
• Trend of Private and Public Investment in Agriculture
• Irrigation
• Crop and livestock Insurance
• Agricultural Credit
• Seed
• Fertilizer
• Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development
• Fisheries and Aquaculture
• Agricultural Marketing
• Export of Agricultural Products
• Outlook
  

Social Sector

• General Introduction
• Poverty
• Special Employment and Poverty Alleviation Programmes
• Literacy and Education
• Population and Family Welfare
• Medical and Health Care
• Development of Women and Children
• Welfare of Weaker Sections
• Housing
• Water Supply and Sanitation
• Outlook