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Committees & Commissions 2016 (Jan-Oct)

Name of the Committees January Committees working for
Chairpersons
6 Member Committee For Holistic interpretation of the provisions
Kamlesh Chandra Committee ShyamBenegal of the Cinematograph Act/ Rules
Kamlesh Chandra To review pay structure and social
R M Lodha panel security benefits provided
ArvindPanagariya panel Justice R M Lodha to GraminDakSevaks.
High-powered panel ArvindPanagariya For reforms in BCCI
ShyamBenegal Committee P K Sinha
Kamal Haasan&GautamGhosh To fast-track bullet trains
R V Easwar Committee (included) To process the recommendations of
Expert panel R V Easwar the 7th Pay Commission
Committee to holistically look into the functioning of
Anil R Dave controversy ridden
CBFC
To simplify Income-tax Act, 1961

To review Specific Relief Act, 1963
To investigate the living
conditions and salary structure of over 3
lakh nurses employed in private hospitals

Name of the Committees February Committees working for
Chairpersons
Companies Law Committee To examining and making
Tapan Roy recommendations on changing of the
Companies Act, 2013.
Deepak Naik Committee Deepak Naik To revive Godavari.
T.S.R Subramanian Committee T.S.R Subramanian
Shankar Committee Shankar - DIPP To evolve the New Education Policy.

To examine the possibility of replacing
multiple prior permissions with pre-existing
regulatory mechanism

GST committee AmitMitra

Name of the Committees March Committees working for
Chairpersons
Maharashtra gov- High-powered To track MoUs signed during ‘Make in
committee Swadhi Kshatriya India’ week
Mahesh Kumar Singla committee Mahesh Kumar Singla To recommend the modalities for Granting
of SC statusto six OBC
High level committee - State Indian Railway communities in Assam
Administrative Council(SAC) Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog To look into the issue of regularisation of
Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) casual labourers and seasonal labourers
AkhileshRanjan To implement the Mumbai-Ahmedabad
AkhileshRanjan committee High Speed Bullet Train project named
the National High Speed Rail Corporation
Limited.
To examine the business models for e-

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commerce, identify the direct tax issues in
relation to e-commerce transactions and
provide suggestions.

International Coordinating Justice H L Dattu appointed as
Committee Bureau of NHRI-ICC member

Name of the Committees April Committees working for
Chairpersons
Three-member Committee To oversee the guidelines set for
B BTandon. government advertisements by the Supreme
Court are followed.
Technical Committee S N Jha Large Scale Integration of Renewable
Two-member inquiry panel Energy
To probe the sequence of events leading to
High Level Committee meeting Rajnath Singh violence during the Jat agitation for
reservation in February.
Sub-committee Ashok Lahiri for Central assistance to Karnataka,
Puducherry and Arunachal Pradesh affected
Panel Ashok Dalwai by drought and floods
ShyamBenegal panel ShyamBenegal To interact with the trade and industry on
the imposition of central Excise duty on
Parliamentary Standing Committee J C Divakar Reddy jewellery.
To make a blueprint for doubling farmer’s
income by 2022.
To suggest measures to help Board
members understand the distinctions of film
certification of the censor board
To tackle misleading advertising as well as
to fix liability on endorsers/celebrities.

Name of the Committees May Committees working for
Chairpersons
Committee for Evolution of a To give evolution to the Education system
National Education Policy T S R Subramanian
RM Lodha-panel RM Lodha To oversee how the regulator ofmedical
profession and education in India function
AyyapanCommitttee S. Ayyapan To prepare a draft national policy on marine
NK Singh fishery
NK Singh Panel Lt Gen D B Shekatkar(retd) To review of FRBM roadmap
11-member committee Sanjay Mitra To relook defence expenditure
Three-member committee To frame a policy framework for taxi
aggregators and other transport operators.

Name of the Committees June Committees working for
Chairpersons
High level committee To look into the issues pertaining with
PWD Minister Satyendra Jain water bodies in the capital.
Expert Committee Anand Desai To examine Specific Relief Act, 1963
District Level Advisory and
Monitoring Committees 6 members To promote people centric planning
and execution of new urban development
Monetary Policy Committee schemes.
(MPC) To make effectiveMonetary Policy

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P K Sinha committee P K Sinha To shortlist the candidates for Reserve
Central Pay Commission Justice A. K. Mathur Bank of India governor post
To recommenda substantial raise to the
Paralympic Committee of India Rao Inderjit Singh salaries and pensions to one crore central
(PCI) government employees
International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
Name of the Committees July has recognized the Paralympic Committee
Chairpersons of India (PCI)
BimalJalan committee
BimalJalan Committees working for

District Development Coordination RM Lodha To suggest amendments to Stock Exchange
and Monitoring Committee and Clearing Corporations (SECC)
(DDCMC) - Disha Regulations.
RM Lodha committee For effective development and coordination
of Central Government’s programme
Four-member committee Shankar Acharya
High-level committee Arvind Subramanian To oversee MCI, there would have been
very few who did not agree that it was in
MadhavChitale committee MadhavChitale need of such an oversight committee for a
T V S N Prasad Committee T V S N Prasad – 7 members long time.
SudarshanSen Committee SudarshanSen To examine the desirability and feasibility
of having a new financial year
To consider a reasonable increase in
minimum support price (MSP) for pulses
and bonus for farmers.
To gear up the guidelines for the desiltation
(clearing odd the silts) of the river Ganga
To explore possible alternatives to pellet
guns in Kashmir
To study regulatory issues relating to
financial technology and digital banking in
India,

August

Name of the Committees Chairpersons Committees working for

High-level committee Department of Heavy Industry To examine enhancement of `Constant
30member committee and Ministry Daily Allowance’
Amitabh Kant To monitor and coordinate the development
committee Pradeep Kumar Sinha of technology for indigenous manufacturing
Committee on Trade Central Board of Direct Taxes of electric and hybrid vehicles
Facilitation (NCTF) member Gopal Mukherjee To review e-commerce rules on foreign
6 member committee direct investment norms.
Rajya Sabha To develop the pan-India road map for
Joint Committee of Parliament Deputy Chief of Naval Staff trade facilitation.
High level committee Admiral Ashok Kumar To review the existing media
Shri Madhukar Gupta policy for communicating the activities of
High powered committee of the the board and the income tax department to
the public.
10 new mwmbers added to study on the
Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016
To find out the extent of Scorpene
submarine data leak and the damage to the
Navy.
For strengthening border protection and

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National Security Council, TVSN Prasad addressing the issue of gaps and
Expert Committee vulnerability in border fencing along Indo-
Pakistan Border.
Regarding alternatives for Pellet Guns

Name of the Committees September Committees working for
Chairpersons
A .K. Sinha expert committee To study the silt in the river
22-member panel A .K. Sinha To look into 7th Pay Commission
DoPT(Department of anomalies
Chief Economic Advisor Personnel and Training)
(CEA) -led panel secretary Shri B P Sharma Report – ‘Incentivising
Arvind Subramanian Pulses Production Through Minimum
Central level committee Support Price (MSP) and Related
Retired Supreme Court Judge Policies’
149 member National or retired High Court Chief To deal with complaints regarding
Committee Justice Waqf properties
23 member Executive PM Narendra Modi
Committee For commemoration of birth centenary
Monetary Policy Committee Rajnath Singh of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay

Parliamentary panel Chetan Ghate, To set the Interest-rate
Delhi PamiDua and Ravindra
Seven member committee H Dholakia 1.To review the disinvestment policy,
banking sector
Parliamentary panel on home Veerappa Moily
affairs
Central Sanctioning and T.V.S.N. Prasad 2.To review the all budgetary reforms
Monitoring Committee To find alternative to the Pellet guns
P Chidambaram which was introduced by the state
Vinod Zutshi police in 2010.
To review border issues and border
security
For the ‘Swadesh Darshan Scheme’

Name of the Committees October Committees working for/News
Chairpersons
Inter-Ministerial Committee on Government decided to utilise the vast
prices of essential commodities Hem Pande network of post offices across the
country to sell subsidised pulses
Munialapp committee Munialapp To keep vigil on bird flu situation
Monetary Policy Committee Reserve Bank of India cut policy rate
(repo rate) by 25 basis points to 6.25%
ICC’s Finance and Commercial BCCI President Anurag from 6.5%.
Affairs committee Thakur To see the revenue related aspects of
International Olympic Saina Nehwal ICC
Committee’s (IOC) Athletes’ Elected as one of it’s member
Commission.

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Expert committee Professor K S Valdiya To found Saraswatiriver did exist
3-member panel SEBI To look into National Spot Exchange
(NSEL) scam.
Panel on disclosure, accounting SEBI To disclosure requirements and
standards accounting practices for various entities
in the securities market.
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Madhusudan Sahoo To regulate the functioning of
Board of India insolvency professionals, insolvency
professional agencies and information
National Security Advisory P S Raghavan utilities under the Insolvency and
Board (NSAB) GS Jha Bankruptcy Code 2016.
High-level technical team TRAI
Justice L Narasimha Reddy To visit the Cauvery basin area and
Panel assess the ground
One-man judicial committee Mata Prasad To resolve telco penalty row
on One Rank One Pension To look into the anomalies, if any,
(OROP) arising out of implementation of OROP
Mata Prasad committee
To overhaul in transmission planning to
National Committee on Trade P.K.Sinha facilitate transfer of power on economic
Facilitation (NCTF) principles.
To facilitate domestic co-ordination and
implementation of TFA provisions.

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