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
