Important commissions and committees

Important commissions and committees
by Indian Officer


1. Palekar Tribunal:-Journalists’ Pay reforms 

2. U.C. Banerjee Commission:- Enquiry into Godhra carnage (railways) 

3. Sarkaria Commission: Centre-State relations 

4. Srikrishna Commission: 1992 Bombay riots 

5. Thakkar Commission: Indira Gandhi assassination case 

6. Phukan Commission & Saharya Committee: Tehelka tapes 

7. Malimath Commission: Criminal Justice 

8. Upendra Commission: Inquiry on rape and murder Thangjam Manorama Devi 

9. Malhotra Committee: Insurance Reforms 

10. Janaki Ram Committee: Security scam 

11. Ajay Vikram Singh Committee: Faster promotions in army 

12. Rajinder Sachar Committee {1}: Companies and MRPT Act 

13. Rajindar Sachar Committee {2}: Report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslims of India 

14. Jyoti Basu Committee: Report on Octroi abolition 

15 Balwant Rai Mehta Committee:Recommendations on decentralization system 

16. Sawant Committee: Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers & Anna Hazare 

17. Chelliah Committee: Eradicating black money 

18. Kothari Commission: Educational reforms 

19. Wanchoo Committee: Tax enquiry 

20. Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee: Agriculture 

21. Aggarwal Committee: Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections 

22. Rangarajan Committee: Reforms in private sector 

23. Naresh Chandra Committee: Corporate governance 

24. Chakravarti Committee: Banking sector reforms 

25. Rekhi Committee: Structure of indirect taxation 

26. G.V.Ramakrishna Committee: Disinvestment in PSU shares 

27. Kelkar Committee: First committee on backward castes 

28. P.C.Hotha Committee: Restructuring of civil services 

29. Justice B.N.Kirpal Committee: 1st chairman National Forest Commission 

30. Godbole Committee :Enron Power Project 

31. J.C.Kumarappa Committee: Congress agrarian Reforms Committee 

32. Swaminathan Committee: Population policy 

33. Rangarajan Committee: Statistics 

34. Wardha Committee: Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines 

35. N.N. Vohra Committee: Criminalization of politics 

36. Kelkar Committee {2}: Direct-Indirect Taxes 

37. Alagh Committee: Civil Service Examinations 

38. Abid Hussain Committee: Recommendations on Small scale industries 

39. Narasimham Committee: Banking sector reforms 

40. Chelliah Committee:Tax reforms 

41. Mashelkar Committee: National Auto Fuel Policy 

42. Boothalingam Committee : Recommendations on integrated wages, income and price policy 

43. Omkar Goswami Committee: Industrial sickness 

44. Yashpal Committee: Review of School Education system 

45. Ram Nandan Prasad Committee: Constitution of creamy layers among Backward Castes 

46. Kelkar Committee{3} :Enquiry on Kargil defense deals. 

47. M.M. Punchhi Commission: Centre-State Relations [note- this committee has been set up recently- after the sad demise of Justice (Retd.) Sarkaria] 

48. Thorat Committee: Caste-based discrimination against students in AIIMS 

49. R.K.Raghavan Committee: Ragging in colleges 

51. James Lyngdoh Committee- Student politics and student-body elections in colleges. 

52. E.M.S. Nachiappan Committee: Reforms in the higher judiciary 

53. Soli Sorabjee Committee: Police Reforms [it was constituted after the Judgement of the Supreme Court in Parkash Singh vs Union of India (2006)] 

54. Ganguli Committee: Review of health facility planning and healthcare engineering and management 

55. Percy Mistry Committee: Making Mumbai an IFC (International Financial Centre) 

56. K.T. Thomas Committee- to look into ways of enhancing the effectives of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act 

57. Fali S. Nariman Committee- Accountability and damages with regard to destruction of public property 

58. Satwant Reddy Committee- review of laws relating to registration of pharmaceutical drugs and clinical trials 

59. Raghuram C. Rajan Committee- financial sector reforms 

60. Shah Commission (1966)- reorganisation of States 

61. Tarkunde Committee- composition of the Election Commission and other electoral reforms 

62. Dinesh Goswami Committee- electoral reforms 

63. G.V.K. Rao Committee (1985) - set up by the planning commission in 1985, to look into the Administrative Arrangement for Rural Development and poverty Alleviation Programmes. 

64. Butler Committee: Relation between Indian states & paramount power (the Queen of Britain) 

65. Hurtog Committee: Growth of British India education-its effects 

66. Muddiman Committee: Working of Diarchy as in Montague Chelmsford reforms
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