Committees and Commissions in India

Name - year - Work of the committee - Recommendations/comments
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Js Mukherjee - 1999 - Death of Subhash Bose
Shahan Nawaz Khan - 1956 - Death of Subhash Bose
GD Khosla - 1970 - Death of Subhash Bose - Netaji died in plane crash
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Veerappan Moily - - Roadmap for reservation policy
Veerappa Moily - 2005 - Second ARC – to study 4 subjects – RTI, Employment Guarantee Act, Crisis Mgmt, Public Order and Conflict Mgmt. Three year term but given in 2007
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Bala Krishna Siddiram Ranke Committee – National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi Nomadic Tribes
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National Commission on farmers – MS Swaminathan - 2005 - Farmers policy Minimum Support price to cover all crops. Market risk stabilization fund and Agricultural risk fund
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MS Valliyanathan - -Functioning of AIIMS
K Narayana Committee - - Failure of GSLV – FO2
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National knowledge Commission –
Chairman – Sam Pitroda
Vice Chairman – PM Bhargava
Members – Jayati Ghosh, Nandan Nilekani, Ashok Ganguly and Deepak Nayyar
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Election Commissioners:
CEC – N Gopalaswami
EC – SY Qureshi, Naveen Chawla
Deputy EC – Rajashree Bhattacharya, R Balakrishnan and JP Prakash.
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Economic Advisory Council:
Chairman – Dr. C Rangarajan
Secretary – D Subba Rao
Members – Satish Jha, GK Chanda and Suresh Tendulkar
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Planning Commission:
Chairman – Dr Manmohan Singh
Deputy Chairman – Montek Singh Ahulwalia
Member Secretary – Rajeev Ratna Shah
Members – MV Rajasekharan (Minister of State), Kirit Parekh, Abhijit Sen, Sayeed Ahmed, Yugandhar
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National Statistics Commission:
Chairman – Suresh Tendulkar
Members – Surjith Singh Bhalla, Amitabh Kundlu, Bikas Sinha and Padma Singh
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National Commission on Center-State ties:
Chairman - MM Puncchhi
Members - Dhirendra Singh, VK Duggal and MR Madhav Menon (This commission replaces the Sarkaria Commission! )
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Cauvery Water Dispute Trbuanal:
Chairman – NP Singh
Members – NS Rao and Sudhir Narian
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6th pay commission –
Sri Krishna – sushma nath, js mathur, rh dholakia - - Pay and allowance, service conditions,promotion policies, retired benefits, inflation, standard of living of central goi employees
Composition – chairman of minister of state, part time member, member secretary
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National Comission for Backward Classes – Justice Ratna Vel Pandian
National Human Rights Commission Shivraj Patil
National Comission for Women Chairperson – Girija Vyas
National Commission for Children and Child Rights - Shanta Sinha
National Comission for Minorities – Hamid Ansari
National Commission on Scheduled Tribes – Fakirbahi Vaghela (Former Kunwar Singh ) National Commission on Minorites Educational Institutions - Justice MSA Siddiqui
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Integrated Energy committee – Kirit Parekh
Justice Jeevan Reddy committee - - Armed forces special provisions act
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KG Shah and GT Sinha Committee - - Godhra carnage
Banerjee committee-godra riots
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R Radhakrishnan Committee - -Appointed on Farmers Indebtedness
Hanumantha rao committee – Andhra - - Study of recommendations of national commission on farmers
Rajendar sachar committee - - Evaluation of equal opportunity commission modeled on UK race relation act 1972 also to look into the grievances of religious minorities.
Fatmi committee - - 13 member by HRD, to examine the education related recommendations ofsachar committee
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Liberhan committee - - 1992 - Babri Masjid
C Rangarajan Task force - On development of JK 11 member
RK Raghavan committee - - By HRD to check ragging after an order from the SC
Rakesh mohan comm.. - 2000 - NHDP(infrastructure) - NHDF :1Rs/lit on petrol and diesel
Saptharishi comm.. - Price stabilization fund
Hazari comm - On the functioning of licensing policy It is an pro rich and leading to corrupt practices
Subimal dutt comm - On the functioning of the licensing policy - delicensing
Abed hussain comm.. - 93-94 - SSI
Goswami comm.. - 1997 - Sick industries - Fast track winding tribunals and NRF
Meera seth com.. - 1997 -Handloom sector
Rangarajan comm… - 1993 - Disinvestment
Satyam comm.. - Abolition of handloom reservation act
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mahajan comm - Development and growth of sugar industry
Vaish panel comm - To suggest measures to cut down local cases related to company law
Synergy for energy comm.(V Krishna murthy)
Mineral comm - To review national mineral policy
Justice kochar comm - Interlinking of rivers and collapse of ganga bridge.
Pathak panel - Oil for food program
Parthasarthy comm - 2005 - Review of implementation of centrally sponsored watershed programs
Chaturveda panel - On airport modernization
Abhijit sen comm - 2005 - Long term grain policy of fertilizers
Committee on agriculture(MS Swaminathan) - 2005- Agriculture policy
National population comm. (MS Swaminathan) - 2000 - Population policy
Gadgil comm. And nariman comm. - Regional rural banks
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First narisimham comm - 1991 - Finanacial sector
Second narasimham comm - 1998 - Banking sector reforms
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Goiporia comm. - 2004 - Consumer service improvement
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Tarapore comm. 1 - 1995 - Full capital a/c convertibility
Tarapore comm. 2 - 2005 - Full capital a/c convertibility in relation of economy in between 1997-2005
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Khanna comm - 2001 - Om railway safety Laying down fibre optic network
Amit mishra comm - 2006 - New FM radio policy - 330 new frequencies- FDI n FII is 20% - No current affairs show 4% as fee
Shanti bhushan comm - Judicial accountability
N Ranghachari comm - Plantation sector n tobacco
Chellaih and kelkar comm - Tax reforms
NK Singh comm - FDI limit in insurance sector
RH Patel comm - Uniform stamp duty across the country
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Who submitted the Baghlighar report?A: Ramond Lafitte of Switzerland of World Bank has submitted this report
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Defunct Companies – OP Vaish Committee
National Commission on Scheduled Tribes – Fakirbahi Vaghela (Former Kunwar Singh )
Atomic Commission - Anil K Kakodkar
Judicial Accountability – Shanti Bhushan Committee
Ragging – RK Raghavan Committee
Plantation Sector and Tobacco – N Rangachari Committee RBI
Reforms – Narasimham Committee
Tax Reforms – Chellaiah and Kelkar Committee
Atomic Commission - Anil K Kakodkar
Forward Markets Commission - BC Khatua replaced M Sundaresan as its chairman
NK Singh Committee - FDI limit in Insurance sector
Tarapore Committee - Fuller Capital Account Convertiblity
Ganeshan Committee - Export parity pricing for Iron for domestic iron and steel companies
RH Patil and AS Ganguly Committee - Corporate governance for Banking and financial insts. Standing Committee on Defence - Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
MH Kania committee - Investor Protection fund for small investors
CS Murthy Committee - Priority Sector Lending
Vaidyanathan Ayyar Committee -
Wage Board for working and non working journalists - Narayana Swarup
Rangarchari comm-margadarsi finance
RA Mashelkar panel - Patent Laws
Deepak Parekh committee - Long term investment in Infrastructure
Committee on Climate change and the reduction of green house gases - R Chidambaram - principal scientific advisor for the PM of india
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Investment commission - Ratan Tata
Trade Commission - KM Birla
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James Commission - Iraq study group

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radhakishanan expert panel - The department of ocean development has constituted an expert committee to review the long-term impact of tsunami on the ecu-system of oceans and its resources. **The panel, headed by the director of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services K Radhakrishnan, consists of five members and a convenor(Dr V Sampath).