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Committees & Commissions 2016 (Jan-Dec)
January
Name of the Committees Chairpersons Committees working for
6 Member Committee ShyamBenegal For Holistic interpretation of the provisions
of the Cinematograph Act/ Rules
Kamlesh Chandra Committee Kamlesh Chandra To review pay structure and social
security benefits provided
to GraminDakSevaks.
R M Lodha panel Justice R M Lodha For reforms in BCCI
ArvindPanagariya panel ArvindPanagariya To fast-track bullet trains

High-powered panel P K Sinha To process the recommendations of
the 7th Pay Commission
ShyamBenegal Committee Kamal Haasan&GautamGhosh to holistically look into the functioning of
(included) controversy ridden
CBFC
R V Easwar Committee R V Easwar To simplify Income-tax Act, 1961
Expert panel To review Specific Relief Act, 1963

Committee Anil R Dave To investigate the living
conditions and salary structure of over 3
lakh nurses employed in private hospitals
February
Companies Law Committee Tapan Roy To examining and making
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 To evolve the New Education Policy.
Shankar Committee Shankar - DIPP To examine the possibility of replacing
multiple prior permissions with pre-existing
regulatory mechanism
GST committee AmitMitra
March
Maharashtra gov- High-powered Swadhi Kshatriya To track MoUs signed during Make in
committee India week
Mahesh Kumar Singla committee Mahesh Kumar Singla To recommend the modalities for Granting
of SC statusto six OBC
communities in Assam
High level committee - State To look into the issue of regularisation of
Administrative Council(SAC) casual labourers and seasonal labourers
Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Indian Railway To implement the Mumbai-Ahmedabad
Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog High Speed Bullet Train project named
the National High Speed Rail Corporation
Limited.
AkhileshRanjan committee AkhileshRanjan 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
April
Three-member Committee B BTandon. To oversee the guidelines set for
government advertisements by the Supreme
Court are followed.
Technical Committee Large Scale Integration of Renewable
Energy
Two-member inquiry panel S N Jha To probe the sequence of events leading to
violence during the Jat agitation for
reservation in February.
High Level Committee meeting Rajnath Singh for Central assistance to Karnataka,
Puducherry and Arunachal Pradesh affected
by drought and floods
Sub-committee Ashok Lahiri To interact with the trade and industry on
the imposition of central Excise duty on
jewellery.
Panel Ashok Dalwai To make a blueprint for doubling farmers
income by 2022.
ShyamBenegal panel ShyamBenegal To suggest measures to help Board
members understand the distinctions of film
certification of the censor board
Parliamentary Standing Committee J C Divakar Reddy To tackle misleading advertising as well as
to fix liability on endorsers/celebrities.
May
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 To prepare a draft national policy on marine
S. Ayyapan fishery
NK Singh Panel NK Singh To review of FRBM roadmap
11-member committee Lt Gen D B Shekatkar(retd) To relook defence expenditure
Three-member committee Sanjay Mitra To frame a policy framework for taxi
aggregators and other transport operators.
June
High level committee PWD Minister Satyendra Jain To look into the issues pertaining with
water bodies in the capital.
Expert Committee Anand Desai To examine Specific Relief Act, 1963
District Level Advisory and To promote people centric planning
Monitoring Committees and execution of new urban development
schemes.
Monetary Policy Committee 6 members To make effectiveMonetary Policy
(MPC)
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P K Sinha committee P K Sinha To shortlist the candidates for Reserve

Bank of India governor post
Central Pay Commission Justice A. K. Mathur To recommenda substantial raise to the
salaries and pensions to one crore central
government employees
Paralympic Committee of India Rao Inderjit Singh International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
(PCI) has recognized the Paralympic Committee
of India (PCI)
July
BimalJalan committee BimalJalan To suggest amendments to Stock Exchange
and Clearing Corporations (SECC)
Regulations.
District Development Coordination For effective development and coordination
and Monitoring Committee of Central Governments programme
(DDCMC) - Disha
RM Lodha committee RM Lodha 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.
Four-member committee Shankar Acharya To examine the desirability and feasibility
of having a new financial year
High-level committee Arvind Subramanian To consider a reasonable increase in
minimum support price (MSP) for pulses
and bonus for farmers.
MadhavChitale committee MadhavChitale To gear up the guidelines for the desiltation
(clearing odd the silts) of the river Ganga
T V S N Prasad Committee T V S N Prasad 7 members To explore possible alternatives to pellet
guns in Kashmir
SudarshanSen Committee SudarshanSen To study regulatory issues relating to
financial technology and digital banking in
India,
August
High-level committee To examine enhancement of `Constant
Daily Allowance
30member committee Department of Heavy Industry To monitor and coordinate the development
and Ministry of technology for indigenous manufacturing
of electric and hybrid vehicles
committee Amitabh Kant To review e-commerce rules on foreign
direct investment norms.
Committee on Trade Pradeep Kumar Sinha To develop the pan-India road map for
Facilitation (NCTF) trade facilitation.
6 member committee Central Board of Direct Taxes To review the existing media
member Gopal Mukherjee policy for communicating the activities of
the board and the income tax department to
the public.
Joint Committee of Parliament Rajya Sabha 10 new mwmbers added to study on the
Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016
High level committee Deputy Chief of Naval Staff To find out the extent of Scorpene
Admiral Ashok Kumar submarine data leak and the damage to the
Navy.
High powered committee of the Shri Madhukar Gupta For strengthening border protection and
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National Security Council, addressing the issue of gaps and

vulnerability in border fencing along Indo-
Pakistan Border.
Expert Committee TVSN Prasad Regarding alternatives for Pellet Guns
September
A .K. Sinha expert committee A .K. Sinha To study the silt in the river
22-member panel DoPT(Department of To look into 7th Pay Commission
Personnel and Training) anomalies
secretary Shri B P Sharma
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian Report Incentivising
(CEA) -led panel Pulses Production Through Minimum
Support Price (MSP) and Related
Policies
Central level committee Retired Supreme Court Judge To deal with complaints regarding
or retired High Court Chief Waqf properties
Justice
149 member National PM Narendra Modi For commemoration of birth centenary
Committee of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay
23 member Executive Rajnath Singh
Committee
Monetary Policy Committee Chetan Ghate, To set the Interest-rate
Delhi PamiDua and Ravindra
H Dholakia
Parliamentary panel Veerappa Moily 1.To review the disinvestment policy,
banking sector
2.To review the all budgetary reforms

Seven member committee T.V.S.N. Prasad To find alternative to the Pellet guns
which was introduced by the state
police in 2010.
Parliamentary panel on home P Chidambaram To review border issues and border
affairs security
Central Sanctioning and Vinod Zutshi For the Swadesh Darshan Scheme
Monitoring Committee
October
Name of the Committees Chairpersons Committees working for/News
Inter-Ministerial Committee on Hem Pande Government decided to utilise the vast
prices of essential commodities 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%
from 6.5%.
ICCs Finance and Commercial BCCI President Anurag To see the revenue related aspects of
Affairs committee Thakur ICC
International Olympic Saina Nehwal Elected as one of its member
Committees (IOC) Athletes
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
utilities under the Insolvency and
Bankruptcy Code 2016.
National Security Advisory P S Raghavan
Board (NSAB)
High-level technical team GS Jha To visit the Cauvery basin area and
assess the ground
Panel TRAI To resolve telco penalty row
One-man judicial committee Justice L Narasimha Reddy To look into the anomalies, if any,
on One Rank One Pension arising out of implementation of OROP
(OROP)
Mata Prasad committee Mata Prasad To overhaul in transmission planning to
facilitate transfer of power on economic
principles.
National Committee on Trade P.K.Sinha To facilitate domestic co-ordination and
Facilitation (NCTF) implementation of TFA provisions.
November
Committee Additional Secretaries, Joint To know about the status of
Secretaries and Directors implementation of its recent decision of
scrapping 500 and 1000 rupees currency
notes.
Amitabh Kant Amitabh Kant, by NITI To develop a digital payments
committee Aayog CEO option for the payment of all
government-citizen transactions to flush
out black money and corruption from
the country.
Four member Committee Dr. R Dalwani, S.P. For conservation and management of
Vashish, Dr H.K Loktak Lake in Manipur
Badhola Chandan Singh
and BrijeshSikka
Fire Safety Committee J P Nadda To review fire safety measures at
various Central government hospitals
and directed it to submit a report
within 15 days.
Special Committee for Inter- committee will be responsible for
Linking of Rivers the monitoring of the precious Inter-
linking of River Projects to be carried
out under National Perspective Plan
1980 of Government of India.
Inter-Ministerial committee Aenior joint secretary from To solve the queries of NRIs, tourists
the Ministry of External from abroad and foreign missions
Affairs over demonetization issue.
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Mundra Committee S.S Mundra To speed up the process of recalibration

of Automated Teller Machines
(ATM) to dispense the new
denomination notes.
13 member committee Andhra Pradesh CM N. To deal with the situation arising out of
Chandrababu Naidu Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination
notes.
Advisory committee on service Mohandas Pai To consolidate and amend laws relating
providers to reorganisation as well as insolvency
Corporate insolvency and Uday Kotak resolution of corporate persons,
liquidation panel partnership firms and individuals in a
time-bound manner.
IOSCO (International Parmod Kumar Nagpal and 1.Parmod Kumar Nagpal - Committee
Organisation of Securities Amarjeet Singh on Issuer Accounting, Audit and
Commissions )panels Disclosure
2.Amarjeet Singh - Assessment
Committee (AC).
December
Digital Payment Committee Ratan P. Watal To boost Digital Payment system in
India
Committee reconstituted A.K. Bajaj Tasked with assisting the Krishna River
Management Board (KRMB).
Parliamentary Standing Renuka Choudhary Prevent the fires in the Himalayan
Committee on Science and forests spread across Uttarakhand,
Technology Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu and
Kashmir.
High level committee Justice BN Srikrishna. To make arbitration a preferred mode
for settlement of commercial disputes
and review the present system of
arbitration mechanism in India and
make it strong
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Committees & Commissions 2016 (Jan-Dec)

ArvindPanagariya panel ArvindPanagariya To fast-track bullet trains

Expert panel To review Specific Relief Act, 1963

commerce, identify the direct tax issues in

P K Sinha committee P K Sinha To shortlist the candidates for Reserve

National Security Council, addressing the issue of gaps and

2.To review the all budgetary reforms

Expert committee Professor K S Valdiya To found Saraswatiriver did exist

Mundra Committee S.S Mundra To speed up the process of recalibration

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