Important Committees in India

2018-10-25

Important Committees in India

Committee	Year	Details
S.K.Dhar	1948	Linguistic Provinces Commission
JVP Committee (Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallahbhai Patel, Pattabhi Sitaramayya)	1948	To consider the recommendations of Dhar Commission. This committee also rejected the linguistic factor of reorganization of the states.
Fazl Ali Commission	1953 December	To visit the whole question of whether the linguistic basis of separation of states can be considered or not.
Swaran Singh Committee	1976	Fundamental Duties
L.M Singhvi Committee	1986	To study the problems faced by panchayat raj institutions (1/3rd of SC/ST Reservation) (Collector will be the head of zilla parishid)
Ajay Chhibber	2015	Niti Aayog Commission
Kaka Kalelkar Commission	1953 January 29	First Backward Classes Commission
P.V. Rajamanar Committee	1969 September 2	Centre-State Relations Inquiry Committee
Sarkaria Commission	1983	To examine the central-state relationship
M.M.Punchhi Committee	2007	Centre-State Relationship
Srikrishna Committee	2010 February 3	Demand for separate statehood for Telangana or keep the State united in the present form, Andhra Pradesh
K. Santhanam Committee	1962	Anti-corruption
B.G.Kher	1955	First official language commission
Kapur Committee	1966	Inquiry into the conspiracy to murder Gandhiji
Nanavati-Mehta Commission	2002 March 6	To probe the Godhra train burning incident of 27 February 2002. Its mandate was later enlarged to include the investigation of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Balwant Rai Mehta Committee	1957 January	To examine the working of the Community Development Programme(1952) and the National Extension Service(1953)
Ashok Mehta Committee	1977 December	Panchayat Raj Institutions (Recommends 3-tier system of Panchayati Raj should be replaced by the 2-tier system)
B.P Mandal Commission	1979 January 1	Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Commission (27% Reservation for OBC)Second Backward Classes Commission
Muddiman Committee	1920	To enquire about diarchy, instituted by the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms.
B.N.Kirpal Commission	2003	First National Forest Commission (NFC)
L.C Gupta Committee	1996 November 18	Development and Regulation of Derivative Markets in India
Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee	1964	Agriculture
soli sorabjee	2005 October	Police Act Drafting Committee” (PADC)
M.N Vohra	1977	Criminalisation of politics
S Padmanabhan Committee	1995	to take a fresh look at the banking Supervision
Dinesh Goswami Committee	1990	Electoral Reforms
Malhotra Committee	1993	Insurance Sector Reforms
Lakdawala Committee	1989	To consider methodological and computational aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in India.
Dantwala Committee	1978	It identified the remoteness of planning agencies, at the District Level from the grassroots as the major weakness of local area planning Recommends Block level planning
Bhagwati Committee	1973	Unemployment
Ram Nandan Committee	1993	To identify the creamy layer among the OBC
Raja Chelliah committee	1991-93	Tax Reforms
Raghuram Rajan Committee	2007	Financial Sector Reforms
Abid Hussain Committee		Trade Policy Reform, Small Scale Industries
Kothari Commission	1964-1966	National Education Commission
Lyngdoh Committee	2006	To examine student election in universites
First Narasimham Committee	1991	Financial system
Second Narasimham Committee	1992	Progress review of the implementation of the banking reforms
Gadgil Commission	2011	Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP)
Kasturirangan committee	2013	Western Ghats
Moraji Desai then Hanumanthaiah	1966 January 5	First Administrative Reforms Commission
Veerappa Moily & V.Ramachandran	2004	Second Administrative Reforms Commission

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