Important Commissions and Committees in India

·         Malimath Commission  :   Criminal Justice

·          Upendra Commission  :   Inquiry on rape and murder Thangjam Manorama Devi

·         Malhotra Committee  :   Insurance Reforms

·         Janaki Ram Committee  :   Security scam

·         Ajay Vikram Singh Committee  :   Faster promotions in army

·         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

·         Jyoti Basu Committee  :   Report on Octroi abolition

·         Balwant Rai Mehta Committee  :  Recommendations on decentralization system

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

·         Palekar Tribunal      :     Journalists’ Pay reforms

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

·         Sarkaria Commission  :   Centre-State relations

·         Srikrishna Commission  :   1992 Bombay riots

·         Thakkar Commission  :   Indira Gandhi assassination case

·         Phukan Commission & Saharya Committee  :   Tehelka tapes

·         Chelliah Committee  :   Eradicating black money

·         Kothari Commission  :   Educational reforms

·         Wanchoo Committee  :   Tax enquiry

·         Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee  :   Agriculture

·         Aggarwal Committee  :   Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections

·         Rangarajan Committee  :   Reforms in private sector

·         Naresh Chandra Committee  :   Corporate governance

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

·         Swaminathan Committee  :   Population policy

·         Rangarajan Committee  :   Statistics

·         Wardha Committee  :   Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines

·         N.N. Vohra Committee  :   Criminalization of politics

·         Kelkar Committee {2}  :   Direct-Indirect Taxes

·         Alagh Committee  :   Civil Service Examinations

·         Abid Hussain Committee  :   Recommendations on Small scale industries

·         Narasimham Committee  :   Banking sector reforms

·         Chelliah Committee  :  Tax reforms

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

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

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

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

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

·         K.T. Thomas Committee- to 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

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

·         Raghuram C. Rajan Committee- financial sector reforms

·         Shah Commission (1966)- reorganisation of States

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

·         Dinesh Goswami Committee- electoral reforms

·         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

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

·         Hurtog Committee  :   Growth of British India education-its effects

·         Muddiman Committee  :   Working of Diarchy as in Montague Chelmsford reforms

·         Mashelkar Committee  :   National Auto Fuel Policy

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

·         Omkar Goswami Committee  :   Industrial sickness

·         Yashpal Committee  :   Review of School Education system

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

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

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

·         Thorat Committee  :   Caste-based discrimination against students in AIIMS

·         R.K.Raghavan Committee  :   Ragging in colleges

·         Chakravarti Committee  :   Banking sector reforms

·         Rekhi Committee  :   Structure of indirect taxation

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

·         Kelkar Committee  :   First committee on backward castes

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

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

·         Godbole Committee   :  Enron Power Project