diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index d0594fd5..26035ff9 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ reportlab
 requests
 watchfiles
 python-multipart
+python-dotenv
 xlrd
 supertokens-python==0.29.2
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