3) Committees copy

ECONOMY RELATED
Professor Golder committee Move from WPI to Producer price index, which includes services and reduce
double counting
SC Garg Panel On crytocurrency (ban all pvt ones), SC over turned it as it against right to
practice profession
on Trade and Policy (tax reforms to promote exports, Elephant bonds(as
Surjit Bhalla Comm tax amnesty scheme to bring black money hoarded abroad) for Long Term
infra)
Rangarajan Committee NSO should work as core statistical body directly answerable to Parli and not
government. Must be given a statutory status
Rangarajan Committee 1991 On Disinvestment - supported it (but privatisation doesn't necessarily result in
efficiency)
1. Narasimham Committee 1991,1997: 3-4 large banks, 8-10 smaller ones
with national footprint, increase competition with easier license
Bank Consolidation 2. Rajan Committee 2007
3. PJ Nayak Committee, 2014: Privatise or merge PSBs
4. Alternative Mechanism Panel (under Arun Jaitley)
Janak Raj Committee Link lending rate to external market based benchmark. [because current MCLR
is uneven across categories and asymmetric over monetary policy cycles]
SS Tarapore Committee On capital account convertibility. Supported full CA convertibility but precond -
low NPA, low FD, low inflation, macro economic stability, low CAD
Nachiket Mor On Financial inclusion (universal electronic bank account, payment bank w.n
15min walking dist, 50% PSL)
Medium term fin inclusion. Stop interest subvention for farmers, make
insurance universal and subsidise it.
Mobile Technology: to ensure last mile delivery of bank services
Deepak Mohanty Digitisation of land records: to increase formal credit supply to agrarian
segments
Aadhaar linked credit account: to be shared with credit information
bureau to increase credit stability and access
On FCI and PDS (decrease subsidy burden, reduce NFSA coverage from 67%
Shanta Kumar Committee to bottom 40%) Noted that FCI is carrying buffer stocks in excess of norms
Only 6% farmers actually receive benefits of MSP
Give DBT to farmers, and deregulate fertilizer sector
Meenakumari comm - on coastal fishing (create buffer zone b/w 200m to
Fisheries 500m + scientific use of fishing net)
Dilip Kumar Comm - inland fisheries
For doubling farmers income by 2022
Ashok Dalwai Committee Aim announced in budget 2016-17. Trying to reduce cost, increase productivity,
dec risk and diversify to horticulture and allied sectors
Arvind Subramaniam Panel On pulses (MSP, replace paddy with pulses in PJ, HY belt, need for nutritional
security)
HR Khan Committee On strenghtening bond market
Arbind Modi Task Force To review Income Tax Act and suggest Direct Tax Law (will give recos)
On Income Tax Act (bring clarity on tax exemptions - 15% of all tax litigation,
Eswar Panel, 2015 bring capital gains tax for >1yr holding, revisit greater rates applied for NRIs -
EoDB damage)
AKA Tax Reforms Commission (GAAR, tax farmers >50lk, voluntary
Parthasarathy Shome, 2012 complaince, presumptive tax scheme for small business, banking cash
transaction tax and fringe benefit tax)
Corporate Governance (reco - disclosure req, min one indep woman dir, audit
Uday Kotak Panel risk mgmt and remuneration committees)
Earlier comm - Kumar Managalam Birla, Narayana Murthy
Ashok Chawla panel on audit firms (related to shell firms topic) - audit firms playing a shady role
Anil Balaji Comm for CSR monitoring (no need of any special body, give annual awards to
incentivise)
T Haque Committee On Land Leasing Act
S Sunder Committee On Road Safety
Deepak Parekh committee On infrastructure financing [Reco to tap international sources, long tenure debt
and better risk recognition}
Bibek Debroy - Railway Regulatory Authority of India
Railway Anil Kakodkar Committee - on safety (eliminate manned and unmanned
crossings etc.)
on ports (one size fits approach is not useful)- said they deteriorated over time
Rakesh Mohan Committe (the committee itself was on national transport development policy) - use for
all roads, railways everything
Kelkar committee PPP (National policy on PPP) Deep Discount Bonds or Zero Coupon Bonds
for providing long-term debt at low costs
Kelkar panel On energy security. Increase domestic oil and gas production, utilise oil
industry development cess, deregulate retail O&G
Kirthi parith committee Discard oil pool account and remove administered price mechanism
Rajeshwara Rao Committee National Mineral Policy 2019
Amitabh Kant Committee e-commerce and FDI
Deosthalee Committee Public Credit Registry
TK Vishwanathan Committee SEBI released mechanism to prevent insider trading based on this
TK Vishwanathan Committee Drafted IBC
MSMEs - financing (Custom instru, crowd source), National Council under PM,
tech mission, amend act etc., set up fund of funds.Review definition from
UK Sinha Committee investment to turn over to ensure compatibility with GST.Timely payments by
govt and PSUs as 5 lakh crore are pending.
Strengthen OCTEI for MSMEs to raise money from financial markets
Baba Kalyani Committee SEZ policy (3EEEs - Employment and Economic Enclaves; lower taxes,
competitive power supply, infra status)
Dinesh Sharma Committee action plan for dealing with virtual currencies so as to fix the regulatory gaps in
the existing framework governing virtual currencies.
HR Khan Committee
Hanumantha Rao committee
Vimal jalan committee
Rangarajan committee
Shankar guru committee 2001
YH Malegam committee(2011)
and R Gandhi committee(2015)
Madhav Rao committee(1999)
Chaitanya Prasad Commiittee
SECURITY
Santhanam Committee, 1963
Vohra committee(post Mumbai
blasts 1993)
Padmanabhaiah Committee
Gulshan Rai Committee
Naresh Chandra committee
Naresh Chandra Committee
Shekatkar Committee
AFSPA
Police Reforms
NE
Defence Procurement
Kargil Review
Committe(subramaniyam) and
Group of Ministers 2001
Shekatkar Committee 2016
M B SHAH committee
SOCIETY
Recommended easing of restrictions for FPI ( P notes KYC)
Desert Development program
Recommended transfer of 1.76 lakh crore of RBI surplus fund to government
Recommendations: Discard SAP, millers should pay FRP at upfront and are of
profit later.Reduce excessive government interference in the sector.
Agricultural market reforms 2001, Model APLM Act 2017
Urban cooperative banks_create a board of management
Audit of UCBs should be done by external independent auditors
On fire accidents at Sivakasi units
Political corruption as most dangerous
Nexus between bureaucrats, police, politicians and organized crime
Criminalization of politics is leading to politicization of bureaucracy
To curb cyber crime (Establish Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre)
Corporate Audit anf Finance 2002
3 new services - space, cyber and special operations. Bureau of Politico-
Military Affairs to deliberate on security issues with foreign policy implications.
Chief of Defence staff
Inc retirement age of jawans, improve tooth to tail ratio, theatre commands
Justice Verma Committee, Reddy Committee, ARC 2 -> all reco repeal
Prakash Singh Case (National and State security Comm, Police Estb Board,
Police Complains Authority)
Thomas Committee - not complying
Hazarika Committee by SC (influx of illegal Bengali migrants)
Bezbaruah Committee: to tackle racist attacks on north east students
PitamSingh (Defence procurement Org)
Parli SC - non lapsable capital fund
Dhirendra Singh Comm - under Strategic Partnership give assured contracts
for all req to one firm only - to develop specialisations
Recommended Cheif of Defence Staff
Recommended to have clear cut policy on declassification and war
histories(Ministry changed its policy)
1. On measures to curb black money
2. Ban on cash transactions and cash holding above a certain limit
3. Institutional mechanism within RBI to share import-export and forex
transaction with investigative agencies
4. Use of Pan card must for higher transactions

Denotified Tribes
Mohini Grir committee
Gurupadaswamy committee
Mohini Giri Committee
Pam Rajput Committee
Yash Pal committee and Hari
Gautam committee
N.Gopalaswami
Anil Bordia Comm
TSR Subramanian Committee spending
2016
Geeta Bhukkal 2014
Kasturirangan Committee
Sumit Bose Committee
Ranganath Mishra Committee on
Partha Mukhopadhyay (on
Migration)
Bezbaruah Com
Saxena Committee
Dhebar Commission
National Commission on
Enterprises for the Unorganized
Sector
headed by Arjun Sengupta
recommended
TCA Anant Committee
1. Ananthsayanam Ayyangar Committee: Criminal Tribes repealed nd
former “criminal tribes” were denotified + replaced with the Habitual
Offenders Act, 1952
2. Bhiku Ramji Idate Commission:
do proper social survey, repeal HO
sub-categorise as DNT-SC, DNT-ST, DNT-OBC (Justice Rohini
Committee)
National policy on senior citizens
On CL (poverty => no elimination)
on elderly (pensions system and department of senior citizens)
On Women (Draft National Policy on Women)
remove red tape in edu sector (ie UGC)
decided on Insti of eminence
To reform Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (centrality of teacher, Student Data
Mangement System)
3->6%, remove no detention, compulsory certification for teachers,
expand MDM to secondary school, AIS - education service, merge small
schools
Also recommended to remove no detention
for National Edu policy
use SECC data for rural development schemes, replace BPL with
multidimensional SECC
religious and linguistic minorities (recommended 10% reservation to
Muslims)
Caste based enumeration of migrants
States should move away from the requirement of domicile status to
prevent any discrimination in work and employment for the migrants
Network of the Post Offices, banking system and Payment Banks for
financial inclusion.
banks must simplify the documentation procedure
underutilised Construction Workers Welfare Cess Fund should be used
to promote rental housing, working Women Hostels for migrant workers.
To ensure and safety and integration of North Eastern States
Reco: add 2 new sections in IPC to make discrimination of any race and
casuing fear or insecurity to NE community a punishable offence
problems in the implementation of FRA. Wrongful rejections of claims happen
due to lack of proper enquiries made by the officials.
recognised seperate category of PVTGs.
included anyone with contract under formal employment
to reduce redundancy and avoid duplication of employment estimation

Sharada Prasad Committee
Tarun Khanna Committee
Injeti Srinivas Committee
Injeti Srinivas Committee
Pratyush Sinha Committee
ENVIRONMENT
Madhav Gadgil, 2011
Kasturirangan, 2012
Water related
Shailesh Nayak committee
Kasturirangan Report
Compensatory afforestation
Anupam Verma Committee
Justice Raveendran
Committee
Girdhar Malviya Committee
Madhav Chitale Committee
POLITY RELATED
ARC on Office of Profit
Amend act to define properly
Balakrishnan Report
Abolish SSCs, Introduce oversight mechanism on NSDC.(skilling)
reimbursable industry contribution model (applicable only to the organised
sector)
committee on innovation and entrepreneurship (reco - harness NRI talent pool
for mentorship)
1. To review IBC (led to passage of 2018 ordinance)
2. On CSR (Social impact companies, annual audit and part of fin
statements, discontinue contri to central funds, local cond not to be
mandatory)
To review the competition law.Recommendations
1. Dedicated bench under NCLAT for hearing appeals
2. To tackle cartels using third party
3. Green channel automatic route for acquisitions and mergers
1. Develop coal block index for value
2. Revenue sharing model with states
On western ghats. Madhav Gadgil said reserve whole of WG as ESA
Kasturi said 1/3rd.
1. Swaminathan - SRI, drip irrigation, crop diversification
2. Mihir Shah - National water commission , decentralised and
participatory water and ground water mgmt, water in concurrent list,
National bureau of water efficiency, Acceptance of hydrological
boundaries.(new draft water policy)
3. MIHIR SHAH-Draft right of river Act to include river right o flow and
meander
4. Vaidyanath committee - pricing of irrigation water
New 2018 draft CRZ rules - Reduction in 'no development zone' in CRZ III from
200 metres to 50 metres
On Waste to energy. Door to door collection, std protocol for landfill mgmt
1. TSR Subramanian Committee on Environment Protection Laws noted
that quality of forests is declining primarily due to poor quality
compensatory afforestation. Finding land for compensatory
afforestation would be a difficult task, given high pressure on the
resource
2. A 2013 CAG report noted that state forest departments lack the
planning and implementation capacity
Banned 18 pesticides based on its reco
To study the Integrated Island Management plan(IIMP) it recommendation
are part of IIMP now
To prepare draft law on clean Ganga
To give guidelines for desillting the river
1. Purely advisory bodies, for insights and expertise - not OOP
2. excutive decision making and public funds - OOP
3. if min. needed for coordination - not OOP
Statehood of Delhi (special status)
Agnihotri Committee
TK Vishwanathan Committee
MR Rajagopal Committe
Sumit Bose Committee
Justice BN Srikrishna committee 2017 - reco to develop International Centre for ADR into Insti of National Imp
Shyam Benegal Committee
Mukul Mudgal Panel and Lodha bring BCCI under RTI
Panel
Criminalisation of Politics /
Police
Internal Democracy of PP
NCRWC
Punchhi
Shetty committee
Paid News
Umesh Sinha Committee
State funding of election
MCC
Raghuram Rajan committee
Rules of RS (to prevent stalling of work) - reduce diff in rules bw LS and RS
Hate speech (intro provisions in IPC because IT act more related to
ecommerce, State and district cyber crime cells)
Replace passive euthanesia term (misleading)
PRIs (use ICT, hold Gram Sabhas regularly)
Arbitration and Concilliation act
(new bill intro for this)
On censorship (certification over censorship, 50% rep to women, more
categories)
1. Vohra Committee: nexus of criminals, politicians and bureaucrats
(criminisation, RPA, bureaucrats)
2. Santhanam Committee 1963 - political corruption as more dangerous
than corruption of officials
3. Padmanabhaiah Comm on Police reforms - corrup due to politicisation
of police and criminalisation of politics (can't be de-linked, culture of
impunity)
Venkatachaliah Committe: draft bill for regulating political parties (internal
democracy and everything - Germany and Portugal have such provisions)
LC - need law to provide internal democracy in party
2nd ARC - corruption due to centralisation w/n parties
1. PSC - follow UK convention, every bill is scrutinised
2. Fix no. of days at 120 (OR already did at 60)
3. Define and delimit privileges
Give equal rep to all states in RS
guidelines for AIJS
1. Law Commission - Amend RPA, make it electoral offence and disqualify
2. PSC - Single regulatory body for print and electronic media /extend PCI
powers + Transparent policy for distri of govt ads
On Sec 126 of RPA (dealing with last 48hours before election) - extend to SM,
provison to flag content
1. Dinesh Goswami Comm - limited funding and ban company donations
2. Indrajit Gupta Comm - State funding in elections - in kind and partial
3. EC, NCRWC - might be useless unless better regulatory mechanism of
PP, defer
4. ARC - partial state funding
1. Dinesh Goswami Comm - statutory backing
2. PSC - amend RPA to add de-recognising PP for violation of MCC
3. TN Sheshan, CVIGIL
1. 'least developed states' category based on pre-decided indicators,
abolish SCS
2. tradeable PSL certis
Goswami committee All recommended that defection decision should be taken by Presi or Gov on
ECI, ARC reco of EC
Venkatachaliah Commission to NCRWC - vote cast by a defector to topple a govt. should be treated as invalid
review consti
Halim Committee on anti Clearly define 'voluntarily giving up membership' and 'political party'.
Defection Law 1998 Restrictions like prohibition on joining new PP or holding public office shd be
imposed on defectors.
1. Sarkaria - sparingly use, parli approval before dissolving, report from
Presi rule Gov to presi with facts and details
2. NCRWC - warning, wide publi to report, safeguards like A352
3. Punchi - amend A356 to include Sarkaria, localised emergency
Marital Rape Justice Verma Committee: remove exception for marital rape
Pam Rajput Committee: criticised failure to criminalise
Adultery Justice Malimath Committee: make gender neutral, but imp for marriage
497, 198 sanctity
NCW: decriminalise adultery
Malimath Comm (reco inquisitorial system (clear and convincing standard,
clear and convincing, dowry, right to silence revoke, presi commission for
Criminal Justice periodic review, Victim compensation fund, Witness protection scheme, Amend
Sys(Adversarial A124 for easier impeachment of judges, NJAC)- ALSO SAID REMOVE
VS inquisitorial) TRIBUNALS
2nd ARC - federal list of crimes
Madhav Menon - reasons for dissatisfaction (such as delay, low conviction
rate etc)
142nd Law commission report also advised for encouraging plea bargaining to
Justice malimath improve condition rates and reduce lengthy trials.It is more common in USA.
Registration of FIR must be obligatory by civil servants.
Nelson Mandela Rules For open prisons
Justice Mulla Committee and
Justice Krishna Iyer committee on jail reforms. (National prison commission for prison modernisation)
Justice Amitava Roy Committee recently set up to look into condition of prisons and jail reforms and
AP Shah Panel On privacy law (Privacy Commissioners at C&S, Self regulating indus body, 9
principles of privacy)
Justice Sri krishna Committee Drafting Personnel data protection Bill
Chairman and vice chairman appointed by select committee headed by
CJI
Justice B S Chauhan part of Uniformity in service condition
law commission Single nodal agency under ministry of law and justice
SC should reconsider L Chandra Kumar case
Appeal before HC only when there is no appellate tribunal
Increase accessibility of benches across India
Safe guards for minorities in territorial councils
Reduce friction of jurisdictions between state and district councils
Bhuria committee, 1994 Anti defection laws in councils
Venkatachalaih committe, 2002 Tackle illegal immigration
Ramachandran committee Improve financial autonomy by UFC and SFC
Audit by CAG
Allow reservation for women
Gopala Krishna committee
GOVERNANCE
Santhanam Committee
2 ARC
Surinder Nath Committee and
the Hota Committee
YK Alagh Committee
Baswan Committee
Prosecution of Civil servant
Malegam Comm
S Vijaykumar Comm
VS Vyas Committee
Mudaliar Committee
Gopalswami committee
Set up by government on developing governance framework for non
personnel data(community data)
Reasons for corruption: discretion, admin delays, govt doing more than it can,
cumbersome process
Summary removal of corrupt bureaucrats
1. Mandatory social audit for all programs, constitute Social audit panel
2. Central Civil Service Authority - it will take decision on posts for lateral
entry
3. Citizen Charter - 1st internal restructuring before releasing charter, wide
consulation, one size doesn't fit all, take feedback, periodic revision
4. RTI- Define substantial limit under Sec 2h so as to include NGOs
Recognised specialisation in civil services
reco lateral entry in higher B
Bigger states have a deficit of over 75 to 100 officers
Hota - amend A311, allow summary removal of corrupt officers (Santhanam
also)
ARC 2 - repeal both 311 and 310
on SHG, MFI. upper limit of interest 24%, marginal rate not more than 10%, 1
woman only 1 SHG, reduce gov role, regulate MFI and NBFC
NGOs (modernize registration procedures, seamless operation of applicable
provisions of IT act and FCRA, make regulation less cumbersome, dec physical
interface bw public officials and NGOs)
On Cooperatives. Replace current govt centric legislation with people centric.
Public Health Cadre - persons dealing with health shd have idea abt public
health policy
To select 20 institutes of eminence for greater autonomy