Commissions and Committees

July 3, 2012 at 2:25pm

1. Central Information Commission

Receiving and inquiring into complaints from aggrieved persons.
Chief Information Commissioner: Satyanada Mishra

2. Central Vigilance Commission

Probing offences by Central Government officers, Officers of societies, corporation and local
authority under the Central Government.
Central Vigilance Commissioner: Pradeep Kumar

3. Commission for Centre-State Relations

Review of working of existing arrangements between Union and States i.e. power, functions, and
responsibilities in all spheres.

4. Commission of Enquiry (Tehelka Commission)

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.
CCI Chairman: Ashok Chawla

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 Vice-Presidents of India.Shahbuddin Yaqoob Quraishi

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.Dr. Vijay Kelkar

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 re-investigate 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 P.V. Reddy

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.
Head(chairman)___ Mr. Justice M.N. Rao.
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.
Head(chairman)___ Mr.P.L.Punia.
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.
Head(chairman)___ Ms. Urmila Singh
23. National Commission for Women

Investigation and examination of all matters relating to safeguards provided for women, take up
cases relating to women to other authorities and to look into complaints relating to deprivation of
women's rights.
Head___ Ms. Mamata Sharma

24. National Commission on Labour

To review and suggest improvement of labour standard.

25. National Commission on Minorities

To evaluate the progress of the development of minorities under the Union and States, look into
complaints regarding the deprivation of minorities rights.

26. National Commission to Review the Working of Constitution of India

Study of working of Constitution. in key area.

27. National Forest Commission

Review and assessment of existing forest policy, legal frame work on scientific and economic point
of examination of current statutes of forest administration and institutions and policy on development
and wild life management.
Head(chairman)___Mr.Justice(Rtd) B.N.Kirpal.

28. National Human Rights Commission

Receiving complaint from victim, directions to Government, etc. and rehabilitation to victims.
Head(chairman)___ Justice Shri. K.G. Balakrishnan.
29. National Judicial Commission

Appointment of Judges in high judiciary and transfer of High Court Judges.

30. National Knowledge Commission

On 13 June, 2005 , the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, constituted the National
Knowledge Commission, as a think-tank charged with considering possible policy that might sharpen
India's comparative advantage in the knowledge-intensive service sectors. The Commission was to
recommend reform of the education sector, research labs, and intellectual property legislation; as
well as consider whether the Government could itself upgrade its use of the latest techniques to
make its workings more transparent. The NKC website was launched in February 2006.sam pitrodo

31. Planning Commission

To oversee the 5 years planning program for the economic development etc. in India.
Head____ Dr. Manmohan Singh

32. Sahariya Commission

To review the POTA implementation in Centre and various States.

33. Sarkaria Commission

It was set up in June 1983 to examine the relationship and balance of power between state and
central governments in the country and suggest changes within the framework of Constitution of
India. It was headed by Justice Rajinder Singh Sarkaria, a retired judge of the Supreme Court of
India.

34. Shah Commission

inquire into all the excesses committed in the Indian Emergency (1975 - 77). It was headed by
Justice J.C. Shah

35. Shah Nawaz

Committee was an enquiry committee established in 1956 to investigate the supposed death of
Indian Subhas Chandra Bose in August 1945. The Committee included Shah Nawaz Khan.

36. States Reorganisation Commission

constituted by the Central Government of India under the States Reorganisation Act and consisted
of Hon. Fazal Ali, K.M. Panikker, and H.N. Kunzru. The Report submitted by the Committee in 1955
known as SRC Report went in to the problems of Telangana and Andhra regions, and the arguments
for and against the merger of two regions.


Butler Committee - Relation between Indian states&paramount power

Hurtog Committee - Growth of British India education-its effects

Muddiman Committee - Working of Diarchy as in Montague Chelmsford reforms

Malhotra Committee - Insurance ReformsJanaki

Ram Committee - Security Scam

Ajay Vikram Singh Committee - Faster promotions in Army

Rajinder Sachar Committee 1 - Companies and MRPT Act

Rajindar Sachar Committee 2 - Report on the social, economic and educational status of the
Muslims of India.

Balwant Rai Mehta Committee - Recommendations on decentralization system

Sawant Committee - Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers & Anna Hazare

Chelliah Committee - Eradicating black moneyWanchoo Committee - Tax enquiry

Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee Agriculture

Agarwal Committee - Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections

Rangarajan Committee - Reforms in private sector

Naresh Chandra Committee - Corporate governance

Chakravarti Committee - Banking sector reforms

Rekhi Committee - Structure of indirect taxation

Kelkar Committee 1 - First committee on backward castes

P.C.Hotha Committee - Restructuring of civil servicesJustice

B.N.Kirpal Committee - 1st chairman National Forest Commission

Godbole Committee - Enron Power Project

J.C.Kumarappa Committee - Congress agrarian Reforms Committee

Swaminathan Committee - Population policyRangaraju Committee Statistics

Wardha Committee - Inquiry on murder of Graham StainesVohra Committee - Criminalization of
politics

Kelkar Committee 2 - Direct-Indirect TaxesAlagh Committee - Civil Service Examinations

Abid Hussain Committee - Recommendations on Small scale industries

Narasimham Committee - Banking sector reforms

Chelliah Committee - Tax reforms

Mashelkar Committee - National Auto Fuel Policy

Boothalingam Committee - Recommendations on integrated wages, income and price policy.

Omkar Goswami Committee Industrial sickness

Yashpal Committee - Review of School Education system

Ram Nandan Prasad Committee - Constitution of creamy layers among Backward Castes.

Kelkar Committee 3 - Enquiry on Kargil defense deals.

Saharya Committee - Tehelka tapes


List of Commissions

U.C.Benerjee Commission - Enquiry into Godhra carnage (Railways)

Nanavati-Shah - commission Posy Godhra riots

Palekar Tribunal - Journalist pays reforms

Hunter Commission - Jallianwalabagh massacre

Nanavati Commission - 1984 Sikh riotsMukherjee Commission - Death/Disappearance of Subhash
Chandra Bose

Librehan Commission - Babri Masjid demolition case

Sarkaria Commission - Centre-State relationsSri

Krishna Commission - 1992 Bombay riots

Thakkar Commission - Indira Gandhi assassination case

Phukhan Commission - Tehelka tapes

Malimath Commission - Criminal Justice

Upendra Commission - Inquiry on rape and murder Thangjem Manorama Devi

G.C.Garg Commission - Train accident near Khanna, Punjab

Mandal Commission - Reservation of seats for Backward castes

Kothari Commission - Educational reforms