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Committees & Commissions 2016 (Jan-Sep)

Name of the Committees

January
Chairpersons

6 Member Committee

ShyamBenegal

Kamlesh Chandra Committee

Kamlesh Chandra

R M Lodha panel

Justice R M Lodha

ArvindPanagariya panel
High-powered panel

ArvindPanagariya
P K Sinha

ShyamBenegal Committee

Kamal Haasan&GautamGhosh
(included)

R V Easwar Committee

R V Easwar

Expert panel
Committee

Name of the Committees

Anil R Dave

February
Chairpersons
Tapan Roy

Deepak Naik Committee

T.S.R Subramanian Committee
Shankar Committee

Deepak Naik
T.S.R Subramanian
Shankar - DIPP

GST committee

AmitMitra

Maharashtra gov- High-powered

committee
Mahesh Kumar Singla committee

High level committee - State

Administrative Council(SAC)
Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)

AkhileshRanjan committee

March
Chairpersons
Swadhi Kshatriya
Mahesh Kumar Singla

Indian Railway
Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog

AkhileshRanjan

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For Holistic interpretation of the provisions

of the Cinematograph Act/ Rules
To review pay structure and social
security benefits provided
to GraminDakSevaks.
For reforms in BCCI
To fast-track bullet trains
To process the recommendations of
the 7th Pay Commission
to holistically look into the functioning of
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

Companies Law Committee

Name of the Committees

Committees working for

Committees working for

To examining and making
recommendations on changing of the
Companies Act, 2013.
To revive Godavari.
To evolve the New Education Policy.
To examine the possibility of replacing
multiple prior permissions with pre-existing
regulatory mechanism

Committees working for

To track MoUs signed during Make in
India week
To recommend the modalities for Granting
of SC statusto six OBC
communities in Assam
To look into the issue of regularisation of
casual labourers and seasonal labourers
To implement the Mumbai-Ahmedabad
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
Committee Bureau of NHRI-ICC

Name of the Committees

Three-member Committee

Justice H L Dattu appointed as

member

April
Chairpersons
B BTandon.

Technical Committee
Two-member inquiry panel

S N Jha

High Level Committee meeting

Rajnath Singh

Sub-committee

Ashok Lahiri

Panel

Ashok Dalwai

ShyamBenegal panel

ShyamBenegal

Parliamentary Standing Committee

J C Divakar Reddy

Name of the Committees

Committee for Evolution of a
National Education Policy
RM Lodha-panel

May
Chairpersons

Name of the Committees

To oversee the guidelines set for

government advertisements by the Supreme
Court are followed.
Large Scale Integration of Renewable
Energy
To probe the sequence of events leading to
violence during the Jat agitation for
reservation in February.
for Central assistance to Karnataka,
Puducherry and Arunachal Pradesh affected
by drought and floods
To interact with the trade and industry on
the imposition of central Excise duty on
jewellery.
To make a blueprint for doubling farmers
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.

Committees working for

To give evolution to the Education system

T S R Subramanian
RM Lodha

AyyapanCommitttee
NK Singh Panel
11-member committee
Three-member committee

Committees working for

S. Ayyapan
NK Singh
Lt Gen D B Shekatkar(retd)
Sanjay Mitra

June
Chairpersons

High level committee

PWD Minister Satyendra Jain

Expert Committee
District Level Advisory and
Monitoring Committees

Anand Desai

Monetary Policy Committee

(MPC)

6 members

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To oversee how the regulator ofmedical

profession and education in India function
To prepare a draft national policy on marine
fishery
To review of FRBM roadmap
To relook defence expenditure
To frame a policy framework for taxi
aggregators and other transport operators.

Committees working for

To look into the issues pertaining with
water bodies in the capital.
To examine Specific Relief Act, 1963
To promote people centric planning
and execution of new urban development
schemes.
To make effectiveMonetary Policy

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P K Sinha committee

P K Sinha

Central Pay Commission

Justice A. K. Mathur

Paralympic Committee of India

(PCI)

Rao Inderjit Singh

Name of the Committees

July
Chairpersons

To shortlist the candidates for Reserve

Bank of India governor post
To recommenda substantial raise to the
salaries and pensions to one crore central
government employees
International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
has recognized the Paralympic Committee
of India (PCI)

Committees working for

BimalJalan committee

BimalJalan

District Development Coordination

and Monitoring Committee
(DDCMC) - Disha
RM Lodha committee

To suggest amendments to Stock Exchange

and Clearing Corporations (SECC)
Regulations.
For effective development and coordination
of Central Governments programme

RM Lodha

Four-member committee

Shankar Acharya

High-level committee

Arvind Subramanian

MadhavChitale committee

MadhavChitale

T V S N Prasad Committee

T V S N Prasad 7 members

SudarshanSen Committee

SudarshanSen

To oversee MCI, there would have been

very few who did not agree that it was in
need of such an oversight committee for a
long time.
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,

Name of the Committees

August
Chairpersons

High-level committee
30member committee

Department of Heavy Industry

and Ministry

committee

Amitabh Kant

Committee on Trade
Facilitation (NCTF)
6 member committee

Pradeep Kumar Sinha

Joint Committee of Parliament

Rajya Sabha

High level committee

Deputy Chief of Naval Staff

Admiral Ashok Kumar

High powered committee of the

Shri Madhukar Gupta

Central Board of Direct Taxes

member Gopal Mukherjee

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Committees working for

To examine enhancement of `Constant
Daily Allowance
To monitor and coordinate the development
of technology for indigenous manufacturing
of electric and hybrid vehicles
To review e-commerce rules on foreign
direct investment norms.
To develop the pan-India road map for
trade facilitation.
To review the existing media
policy for communicating the activities of
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,

Expert Committee

Name of the Committees

A .K. Sinha expert committee
22-member panel

Chief Economic Advisor

(CEA) -led panel

Central level committee

149 member National

Committee
23 member Executive
Committee
Monetary Policy Committee

Parliamentary panel

addressing the issue of gaps and

vulnerability in border fencing along IndoPakistan Border.
Regarding alternatives for Pellet Guns

TVSN Prasad

September
Chairpersons
A .K. Sinha
DoPT(Department of
Personnel and Training)
secretary Shri B P Sharma
Arvind Subramanian

Retired Supreme Court Judge

or retired High Court Chief
Justice
PM Narendra Modi

Committees working for

To study the silt in the river
To look into 7th Pay Commission
anomalies
Report Incentivising
Pulses Production Through Minimum
Support Price (MSP) and Related
Policies
To deal with complaints regarding
Waqf properties
For commemoration of birth centenary
of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay

Rajnath Singh
Chetan Ghate,
Delhi PamiDua and Ravindra
H Dholakia

To set the Interest-rate

Veerappa Moily

1.To review the disinvestment policy,

banking sector

Seven member committee

T.V.S.N. Prasad

Parliamentary panel on home

affairs
Central Sanctioning and
Monitoring Committee

P Chidambaram
Vinod Zutshi

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2.To review the all budgetary reforms

To find alternative to the Pellet guns
which was introduced by the state
police in 2010.
To review border issues and border
security
For the Swadesh Darshan Scheme

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