Indian Commissions-General Information Queries and Answers revised June 2024

There are several committees and commissions in different fields that are created in India. A lot of reforms have taken place in our country on the basis of these committees and commissions’ recommendations. On the basis of these committees and commissions, it is found that several questions are asked in the exams. But students need to go back to them.

List of commissions & Committees in India:

1. Palekar Tribunal – on Journalists’ Pay reforms
2. U.C. Banerjee Commission – on Enquiry into Godhra carnage (railways)
3. Sarkaria Commission – on Centre-State relations
4. Srikrishna Commission- on 1992 Bombay riots
5. Thakkar Commission – on Indira Gandhi assassination case
6. Phukan Commission & Saharya Committee – on Tehelka tapes
7. Malimath Commission – on Criminal Justice
8. Upendra Commission – on Inquiry on rape and murder Thangjam Manorama Devi
9. Malhotra Committee – on Insurance Reforms
10. Janaki Ram Committee – on Security scam
11. Janaki Ram Committee – Security scam
12. Ajay Vikram Singh Committee – Faster promotions in army
13. Rajinder Sachar Committee {1} – Companies and MRPT Act
14. Rajindar Sachar Committee {2} – Report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslims of India
15. Jyoti Basu Committee – Report on Octroi abolition
16. Balwant Rai Mehta Committee – Recommendations on decentralization system
17. Sawant Committee – Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers & Anna Hazare
18. Chelliah Committee – Eradicating black money
19. Kothari Commission – Educational reforms
20. Wanchoo Committee – Tax enquiry
21. Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee – Agriculture
22. Aggarwal Committee – Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections
23. Rangarajan Committee – Reforms in private sector
24. Naresh Chandra Committee – Corporate governance
25. Chakravarti Committee – Banking sector reforms
26. Rekhi Committee – Structure of indirect taxation
27. G.V.Ramakrishna Committee – Disinvestment in PSU shares
28. Kelkar Committee – First committee on backward castes
29. P.C.Hotha Committee – Restructuring of civil services
30. Justice B.N.Kirpal Committee – 1st chairman National Forest Commission
31. Godbole Committee – Enron Power Project
32. J.C.Kumarappa Committee – Congress agrarian Reforms Committee
33. Swaminathan Committee – Population policy
34. Rangarajan Committee – Statistics
35. Wardha Committee – Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines
36. N.N. Vohra Committee – Criminalization of politics
37. Kelkar Committee {2} – Direct-Indirect Taxes
38. Alagh Committee – Civil Service Examinations
39. Abid Hussain Committee – Recommendations on Small scale industries
40. Narasimham Committee – Banking sector reforms
41. Chelliah Committee- Tax reforms
42. Mashelkar Committee – National Auto Fuel Policy
43. Boothalingam Committee – Recommendations on integrated wages, income and price policy
44. Omkar Goswami Committee – Industrial sickness
45. Yashpal Committee – Review of School Education system
46. Ram Nandan Prasad Committee – Constitution of creamy layers among Backward Castes
47. Kelkar Committee{3} – Enquiry on Kargil defense deals.
48. M.M. Punchhi Commission – Centre-State Relations [note- this committee has been set up recently- after the sad demise of Justice (Retd.) Sarkaria]
49. Thorat Committee – Caste-based discrimination against students in AIIMS
50. 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. arkunde 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