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List of Important Committees and Commissions

 April 5, 2016  GK and Current Affairs, Polity and Governance  1,997 Views

Committee and Commissions 
Committee : A group of certain people whose have entrusted with some authority and powers to

inquire/deal/resolve/carryout the task/submit report accordingly with the task entrusted for them. the
committee may be short term committee or long term committee.

Ex : All parliamentary committees, committees set up authority of government.

Commission : A group of people who are entrusted by a government to carry out a task. Sometimes the

task is a specific one and some time long term for example :

Election commission- Its task is long term, conduct elections for every 5 years, UPSC Commission – Its task

is long term to conduct exams annually and submit reports to concerned authorities. commission can be a

committee, but very few committees are commissions, and some commissions are not committees.

All the committees and Commission operate under the authority of the government

There is lots of ambiguity  over the definition of committee and commission to answer or to participate in

the discussions please follow this link 

Right from beginning of the British rule in India, The committee and commission system followed in Indian

administration, some popular committee and commission in British ruled India  are Macaulay commission,

Famines Commission and many more

All the committees and commission are entrusted with one or other responsibilities and task for which they
are entrusted

Here is list of some important committees and commissions that are highly important for any competitive
exam like Banks, UPSC, SSC, Railways, PSU’s Etc

Main committees under British Rule

Committees/Commission Intended Purpose/area of Study

Butler Committee Relation between Indian states & paramount power

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Hurtog Committee Growth of British India education -its effects

Muddiman Committee
Working of Diarchy as in Montague Chelmsford

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Committees/Commission Intended Purpose/area of Study

B.N. Srikrishna Commission Consituted by Maharastra Government under for

investigating cause of the Bombay Riots (1992) (900
  people died)

 
 

Thakkar Commission Indira Gandhi assassination case

   

Jain Commission Rajiv Gandhi

   

Inquiry on rape and murder Thangjam Manorama

Upendra Commission
Devi

 
 

Wardha Committee Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines

   

N.N. Vohra Committee Criminalization of politics

   

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

   

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Malimath Commission Criminal Justice
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Aggarwal Committee Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections

   

Janaki Ram Committee Security scam

   

Shivraj V. Patil Committee 2G Scam

   

Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers &

Sawant Committee
Anna Hazare
 
 

Chelliah Committee Eradicating black money

   

Ajay Vikram Singh Committee Faster promotions in army

   

Phukan Commission & Saharya Committee Tehelka tapes

   

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B.N Sri Krishna Committee Committee for consultation on situation in Andhra

Pradesh State (2010)
 

 
 
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SharesSarkaria Commission Center and State Relations

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M.M. Punchhi Commission Centre-State Relations

   

Balwant Rai Mehta Committee Recommendations on decentralization system

   

Shah Commission (1966) Reorganisation of States

   

Constitution of creamy layers among Backward

Ram Nandan Prasad Committee
Castes

 
 

V Mohini Giri Committee National Policy on Senior Citizens

   

J.C.Kumarappa Committee Congress agrarian Reforms Committee

   

P.C.Hotha Committee Restructuring of civil services

   

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Alagh Committee Civil Service Examinations

   

Tendulkar Commission Poverty Estimation

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Kothari Commission Educational reforms

   

R.K.Raghavan Committee Ragging in colleges

   

Student politics and student-body elections in

James Lyngdoh Committee
colleges
 
 

Tarkunde Committee Composition of the Election Commission and other

electoral reforms
 

 
 

Dinesh Goswami Committee Electoral reforms

   

Rangarajan Committee Statistics

   

Yashpal Committee Review of School Education system

   

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Caste-based discrimination against students in

Thorat Committee
AIIMS
 
 

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Review of health facility planning and healthcare

engineering and management

 
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Satwant Reddy Committee

Review of laws relating to registration of

pharmaceutical drugs and clinical trials

 

 
 

Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee Fine-tune Draft National Sports Development Bill

   

Constitution of creamy layers among Backward

Ram Nandan Prasad Committee
Castes.

 
 

Mani Shankar Aiyar Committee Zonal Cultural Centres

   

Palekar Tribunal Journalists’ Pay reforms

   

Ashok Chawla Committee Natural Resource Allocation

   

Malhotra Committee Insurance Reforms

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Raghuram C. Rajan Committee Financial sector reforms

   
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Making Mumbai an IFC (International Financial
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Recommendations on integrated wages, income

Boothalingam Committee
and price policy

 
 

Chelliah Committee Tax reforms

   

Narasimham Committee Banking sector reforms

   

Abid Hussain Committee Recommendations on Small scale industries

   

Jyoti Basu Committee Report on Octroi abolition

   

Wanchoo Committee Tax enquiry

   

Chakravarti Committee Banking sector reforms

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Narasimham Committee Banking sector reforms

   
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G.V.Ramakrishna Committee Disinvestment in PSU shares

   

Rangarajan Committee Reforms in private sector

   

Kelkar Committee 1 First committee on backward castes

   

Kelkar Committee 2 Direct-Indirect Taxes

   

Kelkar Committee 3 Enquiry on Kargil defense deals.

   

Rajinder Sachar Committee 1 Companies and MRPT Act

   

Rajindar Sachar Committee 2

Report on the social, economic and educational

status of the Muslims of India

 

 
 
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Vijay Kelkar Committee Fiscal Consolidation measures

   

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Chaturvedi Committee Changes in the Centrally Sponsored Schemes.
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Sam Pitroda Committee Review Working of Prasar Bharti

   

Godbole Committee Enron Power Project

   

Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee Agriculture

   

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

   

Swaminathan Committee Population policy

   

Mashelkar Committee National Auto Fuel Policy

   

Omkar Goswami Committee Industrial sickness

   

Naresh Chandra Committee Corporate governance

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G.V.Ramakrishna Committee Disinvestment in PSU shares

   
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G.V.K. Rao Committee (1985)
Set up by the planning commission, to look into the
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and poverty Alleviation Programmes

 

 
 

K.T. Thomas Committee

look into ways of enhancing the effectives of the
Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act
 

 
 

Fali S. Nariman Committee

Accountability and damages with regard to

destruction of public property

 

 
 

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

   

Soli Sorabjee Committee Police Reforms

   

Liberhan Commission
To enquire into demolition of Babri Masjid in

  Ayodhya

 
 

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