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commissions in India
What is the difference between a committee and a
commission?
1. Palekar Tribunal
K. Santhanam
Prevention of Corruption
47. M.M. Punchhi Commission : Centre-State Relations [notethis committee has been set up recently- after the sad demise of
Justice (Retd.) Sarkaria]
To enquire into the definite matter of public importance with the power of civil court.
5. Commission of Enquiry into Oil-for-Food Scam
To inquire into the Oil-for-Food Scam.
6. Commission on Criminal Justice
Reformation of criminal justice system, compensation to victims, and effective
investment etc.
7. Committee on Reforming Bureaucracy
Best practices of Bureaucracy
8. Competition Commission of India
To curb monopolies, to ensure fair competition in India by prohibiting adverse trade
practices and to pass order for granting interim relief and to impose penalties in
case of defaults.
9. Delimitation Commission
Readjustment of the allocation of seats in Lok Sabha to several States and total
number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of each State.
10. Election Commission
Preparation of the electoral rolls, direction, superintendence, and control of
elections to Parliament and State Legislatures, recognition of political parties and
allotment of symbols and also conducting elections to offices of Presidents and VicePresidents of India.
11. Finance Commission
Distribution of financial resources between Union and States, proceeds from taxes,
principles governing grants-in-aid to revenue of States out of consolidated fund of
India, etc.
12. Justice Nanavati Commission
To inquire into 1984 Riot case (Indira Gandhi Assassination Riot).
13. Kalelkar Commission
Adhering to Article 340, the First Backward Classes Commission was set up by a
presidential order on January 29, 1953
14. Khosla Commission
A one-man commission headed by Justice GD Khosla established July 1970 to reinvestigate the circumstances surrounding the supposed death of Subhas Chandra
Bose. The commission reached the same conclusions as Shah Nawaz Committee.
15. Law Commission
To suggest for implementation and development in constitutional and legal matters
including the human way of death penalty
16. Liberhan Commission
To enquire into demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
17. Mandal Commission
Headed by Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal to consider the question of seat
reservations and quotas for people to redress caste discrimination, and used eleven
social, economic, and educational indicators to determine "backwardness."
18. Mukherjee Commission
A one-man board of Justice Manoj Mukherjee, a retired judge of the Supreme Court
of India which was instituted in 1999 to enquire into the controversy surrounding
the reported death of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1945.
19. National Commission for Backward Classes
Inclusion of castes as backward class in OBC lists and to deal with the related
matters.
20. National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes
(NCDNSNT)
A national commission set under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, to
study various developmental aspects of denotified and nomadic or semi-nomadic
tribes in India.
21. National Commission for Scheduled Castes
To investigate and monitor all matters relating to the safeguards provided for the
SCs, to inquire into specific complaints on deprivation of rights of SCs to participate
and advice on the planning process of socioeconomic development of SCs.
22. National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
To investigate and monitor the matters relating to safeguards provided for STs, to
inquire into specific complaints on deprivation of rights of STs.
23. National Commission for Women