Committees and Their Purposes - Indian Polity

List of Committees and their Purposes

Committees and commissions are formed for studying a problem or issue, and then making
recommendations to resolve the issue. The government can either accept or reject the
findings/recommendations of the committee.

We have come up with detailed recommendations of a few important committees for your reference.

List of Committees With Purposes

Name of Purpose
Committee/Commission

Arun Goel Committee To strengthen the Capital Goods(CG) Sector and contribute more
actively in the national goal of achieving a USD 5 trillion economy
and a USD 1 trillion manufacturing sector

P K Mohanty Committee To review present ownership guidelines and corporate structure for
Indian Private Sector Banks

Committee on TRP ratings To review the guidelines on television rating agencies; headed by
Sashi S Vempati

Committee by All India Council To prepare the professional engineers bill

for Technical Education (AICTE)

One Man Committee to Prevent To take steps for preventing stubble burning in Punjab, Haryana
Stubble burning and Uttar Pradesh which is a source of pollution in Delhi-national
capital region (NCR); headed by Justice Madan B. Lokur

Market Data Advisory To recommend appropriate policy for access to securities market
Committee (MDAC) by SEBI data, identify segment wise data perimeters, data needs and gaps,
recommend data privacy and data access regulations applicable to
market data; headed by Madhabi Puri Buch

Company Law Committee (CLC)
to suggest measures to de-clog and improve functioning of the
National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and make
recommendations on various issues pertaining to implementation
of the Companies Act and the Limited Liability Partnership Act;
headed by Rajesh Verma

Rajesh Pant Expert Committee To evaluate the “implications” of digital surveillance by Data
Information Technology Co. Limited and “assess any violations of
law and submit its recommendations; under the National Cyber
 Security Coordinator

Rajiv Mehrishi Committee To measure the impact on the national economy and financial
stability of waiving of interest and COVID-19 related moratorium.
To give suggestions to mitigate financial constraints of various
sections of society

KV Kamath Committee Setting parameters for Loan Restructuring, to undertake a process

validation of resolution plans for borrowal accounts above a
specified threshold

Pradip Shah Committee To develop international retail business at the International

Financial Services Centre (IFSC)

GK Pillai Committee To decide ceiling rates under duty reimbursement scheme for
exporters

Ramesh Chand Committee Niti Aayog Member(Agriculture), “Sugarcane and Sugar Industry”
recommended linking of Sugarcane prices to sugar rate to maintain
the financial state and stability of the industry and to clear the
arrears of the sugarcane farmers.

Committee on Business to develop new BRR formats for listed and unlisted companies;
Responsibility Reporting headed by Rajesh Verma

Committee For Analysis of QR to review the prevalent system of QR Codes in India for facilitating
Code digital payments and submit recommendations; headed by Prof. D.
B. Pathak

SEBI’s advisory committee on Advises the capital markets regulator on matters related to
mutual funds regulation and development of mutual fund industry; headed by
Usha Thorat

Committee on pandemic risk To address various risks which have been triggered by the Covid-
pool 19 pandemic and offer protection in case of a similar crisis in the
future; headed by Suresh Mathur

Abhijeet Sen Committee Formulating food policy in the long term

Abid Hussain Committee Small scale industries and Trade Policy Reform

Chakravarty Committee (1985) Monetary policy

G V Ramakrishna Committee Disinvestment

JJ Irani Committee Company laws; Formation of the new Companies Act

Kelkar Committee (2015) Assessing PPP in India and Tax Structure Reforms

Raja Chelliah Committee Tax reforms in India

Khusro Committee Agricultural Credit System

Sarkaria Commission Relationship and power balance between the Centre and States

Malegam Committee Microfinance

Narasimhan Committee Banking Reforms

Mckinsey Report Merger Of seven Associate Banks with State Bank of India

Suresh Tendulkar Committee The methodology of estimation of poverty

Tarapore Committee Capital Account Convertibility

A Ghosh committee Malpractices in banks

Y B Reddy Committee Assessing Of Income Tax Rebates

Bhagwati Committee Unemployment and Public Welfare

C Rao Committee Agricultural policy

Dharia Committee Public Distribution System

Rangarajan Committee Computerization Of Banking Industry and Public Sector

Disinvestment

Lodha committee To recommend reforms for cricket in India

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar To suggest the best technologies for Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan
panel

K V Kamath Panel To examine the MSME sector

Bibek Debroy Committee Railway restructuring

Justice B. M Shah Committee Black money

A C Shah Committee Non-Banking Financial Company

Ajit Kumar Committee Army pay scales

Athreya Committee Restructuring of IDBI

Bhurelal Committee Increase in Motor Vehicle Tax

Bimal Jalan Committee Report on the working of capital market infrastructure institutions
(MIIs)

Chandra Shekhar Committee Venture Capital

Dave Committee Pension Scheme for Unorganized Sector

Deepak Parekh Committee Financing Infrastructure through PPP model

Hanumant Rao Committee Fertilisers

Janakiramanan Committee Securities Transactions

Kasturirangan Committee Draft National Education Policy

Kothari Commission To examine all aspects of the educational sector in India

Kumaramangalam Birla Report Corporate Governance

N.N. Vohra Committee Relations (Nexus) Of Politicians with Criminals

Radha Krishnan Commission Establishment of the University Grant Commission

(1948)

K. Santhanam Committee Establishment of CBI

Shivaraman Committee (1979) Establishment of NABARD

Swaminathan Commission To find the problems faced by the farmers

(2004)

Balwantrai Mehta Committee Panchayati Raj Institutions

(1957)

Justice A.K Mathur Commission 7th Pay Commission

Vaghul Committee Money market in India

Vasudev Committee NBFC sector reforms

Y B Reddy Committee Review of Income Tax rebates

Aruna Sundararajan Committee Telecom sector revival

Rajiv Kumar Committee Selling of OIL and ONGC fields to private companies

Sushil Modi Committee To look into GST revenue shortfall faced by states

Lokpal Search Committee For recommending names for Lokpal

(Justice Ranjana Desai)

Injeti Srinivas Committee Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Punchhi Commission Centre-State relations