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Committees & Commissions 2017 (Jan – Dec)
| January | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| Sports Code committee | Injeti Srinivas | To suggest improvements in the National Sports Development Code functioning of
sports federations. |
| Negotiation Committee on Mahanadi & its Tributaries | Water Planning and Projects Wing (WP&P) and Central Water Commission (CWC). | To determine the availability and utilization of waters of the river Mahanadi and its tributaries. |
| Timothy Gonsalves Committee | Prof. Timothy Gonsalves | Suggested to create 20 percent
reservation seats for the girl students in IITs |
| Special Task Force | Anil Baijal | To review the decisions taken by the Delhi Police and other departments regarding women’s safety |
| Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) administrative committee |
Vinod Rai | Supreme Court Appoints Vinod Rai as BCCI Committee’s Head |
| Kang committtee | N.S. Kang | To frame uniform rules for the states to avoid delay in proper implementation of
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPD) Act across the country. |
| N.K. Singh Committee | N.K. Singh | To review the Fiscal Responsibility and
Budget Management (FRBM) Act. |
| Amitabh Chaudhry committee | Amitabh Chaudhry | To analysis the existing framework
of IRDA-linked and non-linked insurance product regulations |
| February | |||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for | |
| Six-member committee | Jeddah, Afzal Amanullah | To look into the matter of how to improve the Haj Poilcy of India | |
| 16-member Committee | Dr. H.R. Nagendra | To Prepare a Yoga Protocol for Diabetes Control | |
| Sub-Panel of CABE | Kadiyam Srihari | To look into issues related to girls education | |
| 33 member committee | N Chandrababu Naidu | For the speedy implementation of
the Sagarmala Project in Andhra Pradesh. |
|
| Inter-Departmental Task Force | Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia and the Corporate Affairs Secretary Tapan Rayto | To monitor &review the functioning of shell companies to prevent their misuse for money laundering and tax-evasion | |
| 11 member panel | To frame final regulations on fortification of foods and prepare strategies to address
malnutrition problem |
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| Defence Procurement Organisation | Dr. Pritam Singh | To integrate and streamline the long and | |
| (DPO) | complex process of defence acquisitions | ||
| 11 member Inter-disciplinary Standing Committee on Cyber Security | RBI Executive Director Meena Hemchandra. | To review the threats emerging from the use of technology, study adoption of new technology standards and suggest appropriate policy interventions to strengthen cyber security and resilience. | |
| March | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| 18 member panel | Partha Mukhopadhay | To Suggests Legal Framework to Secure the Rights of Migrants |
| High level committee | Arvind Panagariya | To examine the working of the regulatory bodies Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) and Central Council of Homoeopathy(CCH) said by Yesso
Naik, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH |
| 3 member committee | Additional Director General (ADG) | To identify those Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers and other junior-rank officers of the Income Tax department who are on unauthorised leave or are
absconding, so that strict disciplinary action could be initiated against them. |
| Krishna River Management
Board (KRMB) |
AK Bajaj | To look into te Water sharing between
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana |
| DB Shekatkar Committee | DB Shekatkar | To reform the military financial management |
| Inter-ministerial empowered
committee |
Rita Teaotia | For sanctioning and monitoring of the
project TIES |
| April | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| Inter-Ministerial Monitoring-cum- coordination Committee | To monitor the regional air connectivity scheme UDAN | |
| Girdhar Malviya committee | Justice Shri Girdhar Malviya | To prepare draft Ganga Act submitted its report to the Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation to Uma Bharti |
| Inter- Disciplinary Committee | Dinesh Sharma | To propose new regulations related
to digital currencies or virtual currencies |
| Kewal Kumar Sharma committee | Kewal Kumar Sharma | To review UGC recommendations on
7th Pay commission in educational institutes |
| Agricultural Produce Market
Committee |
Mr. Ashok Dalwai | To establish a regulated wholesale agri-
market at a distance of every 80 km. |
| May | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| Technical Committee – IBBI | Dr. R. B. Barman (Chairman, National Statistical Commission). | To lay down Technical Standards for the performance of core services and other services |
| High-level task force | Arvind Panagariya | To compute timely data on employment situation in the country. |
| Maa committee | To check mid-day meal quality in UP
schools. |
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| Chitale Committee | Madhav Chitale | To recommends measures for desiltation of river Ganga |
| Oversight committee – Reserve Bank of India | To expand the scope of cases to be referred to the OC beyond those under S4A
(Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets) as required currently. |
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| June | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| MHA Panel | Special secretary (Internal Security) in the Ministry of
Home Affairs |
To examine the rules which allows free movement of Indian and Myanmarese
citizens within 16 kms of the border |
| Panel on National Education Policy | Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan | To draft the National Education Policy |
| Committee on Corporate Governance | UdayKotak | To improving the standards of corporate governance of listed companies. |
| RBI Overseeing Committee | Pradeep Kumar | To look at the stressed assets of the banking
sector. |
| July | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| Four-member committee of BCCI | CK Khanna | To support staff of the Indian team and then decide on the contracts that will be handed to the coaches |
| Nine member committee | Karnataka Gov | To design a ‘state’ flag and submit a report
on giving it legal sanctity. |
| GST Council panel | Pradeep Kumar Sinha | To select National Anti-profiteering Authority |
| August | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| AIFF’s Transfers Dispute Committee | Ushanath Banerjee | Deal with the players’ transfer disputes’. |
| 10 member panel | Justice B.N Srikrishna | The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) appointed an expert panel committee that
would study various issues relating to data protection |
| High level committee | Justice B N Srikrishna | to review the Institutionalization of
Arbitration Mechanism |
| Parliamentary panel | RenukaChowdhury | Genetically Modified (GM)crop should be introduced only after biosafety, socio- economic evaluation |
| RBI panel | TarunRamadorai | Rights- based privacy
framework in household finance |
| Parliamentary Panel | B C Khanduri | 100% pension to widow of deceased soldiers |
| Task Force on Artificial
Intelligence |
Dr. V. Kamakoti | Artificial Intelligence (AI) for India’s
Economic Transformation. |
| 29-member panel | K RajeswaraRao | To review the National Mineral Policy, 2008, and for submission of a report for a new National Mineral Policy. |
| SEBI committee | T K Viswanathan | The committee will suggest short term and medium term measures for improved surveillance of the markets. |
| Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) | Shekatkar Committee | To enhance combat capability and rebalancing Defence Expenditure of the
Armed Forces |
| September | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| Economic Advisory Council (EAC) | BibekDebroy | The EAC is an independent body that gives advice on economic and related topics to the Government, especially to the Prime Minister |
| Empowered Steering Committee (ESC) | Based on the recommendations of the interim report of the8- member Task Force headed
by AbinavBindra |
The committee will review the core probable list of each High Priority and Priority disciplines for Commonwealth
Games, Asian Games and Olympic Games |
| Punjab government’s steering committee | State chief secretary | To monitor and coordinate the states drug de-addiction and rehabilitation programme |
| Hate speech on internet | T.K.Viswanathan | The committee has suggested that section
78 of the IT Act needs to be substituted and Section 153 & 505A of the Indian Penal |
| Code needs to be amended | ||
| IRDAI panel | Dilip C Chakraborty | To help in implementing the new risk-based capital (RBC) regime and it will also enhance protection to policyholders. |
| NITI AayogExpert Task Force on Employment & Exports | Dr.Rajiv Kumar | To provide a major thrust to job creation by enhancing India’s exports. |
| Group of Ministers on the implementation of GST. | Sushil Kumar Modi | To monitor and resolve IT challenges faced
in implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) |
| Group of Ministers on the implementation of GST. | HasmukhAdhia | To look at the issues of export sector and to recommend to the GST Council |
| Joint Parliamentary Committee | BhupenderYadav | To examine and present a report on the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill, 2017 |
| Appointments Committee of the Cabinet | PM NarendraModi | It is responsible for all appointments of higher ranks in the Central Secretariat,
Public Enterprises, Public Enterprises and Financial Institutions |
| Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) | PM NarendraModi | It deals with the activities pertaining to the economics of the country |
| Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) | PM NarendraModi | It is responsible for all issues related to domestic and foreign affairs. It is most powerful cabinet committee. It is often
referred as ‘super cabinet’ |
| Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) | PM NarendraModi | It is one of the most important committees in India, it looks into the matters of defence expenditures and National security |
| Cabinet Committee on Accommodation (CCA ) | Rajnath Singh | It is responsible for the allotment of accommodation for various top positions in
the Government of India. |
| Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) | Rajnath Singh | To look after the progress of government business in the Parliament of India. |
| OCTOBER | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| Sub Categorization of OBCs | G Rohini | To examine sub categorization of Other Backward Classes (OBCs)
under Article 340 of the Constitution |
| Water resources in the North Eastern Region (NER). | Rajiv Kumar | A high-level committee for proper management of the water resources in the North Eastern Region (NER). |
| Probe into J.Jayalalithaa’s death | A.Arumughaswamy | The Commission would complete its inquiry and submit its report to the Tamil Nadu Government within three months of
its constitution |
| Setting up a sports university in Patiala | Randhir Singh,IOC member | to work out the modalities for setting up a sports university in Patiala. |
| Consider And Merger with oversees along India’s Psb | Finance Minister Arun Jaitley | Union Government set up an alternative mechanism panel headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, to consider and oversee mergers among the India’s public sector banks. |
| Committee to roll out 5G technology in India by 2020. | Secretaries of the ministries of Communications, Information Technology and Science and
Technology, representatives from industry and academics. |
Committee would analyse and approve plans for 5G rollout in India by 2020. This is aimed to have Indian participation in defining global standards for 5G technology |
| Study problems of people along IB, LOC in J&K | Rina Mitra | Members of the study group will prepare a
detailed report of the issues being faced by the public living near IB and LOC |
| Composition scheme | HimantaBiswaSarma | constituted a group of ministers (GoM) to make the ‘composition scheme’ more attractive and also revisit GST rates on restaurants. |
| New Haj policy 2018-22 | AfzalAmanullah | In order to improve Indian Government’s current Haj policy and also to look into issue of Haj subsidy in light of 2012 Supreme Court order on gradually reducing and abolishing it by 2022, Ministry of Minority Affairs had a formed this
committee in February 2017 |
| Standing Committee on External Affairs | ShashiTharoor | The Standing Committee on External Affairs will examine the issue of
cooperation between India and China in international organisations. |
| Principal adviser of Monetary Policy Department | Janak Raj | Either to inflate the base rate and MCLR or prevent it from falling in line with the actual cost of funds.
That effective interest rate burden on the borrower has remained the same even after switching to the MCLR regime from the base rate regime since April 1, 2016. |
| Second National Judicial Pay
Commission |
P V Reddi | New salary structure for judges of lower
courts in India |
| Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence | B C Khanduri | To examine operational preparedness of armed forces |
| Commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary | PM NarendraModi | The Committee will guide and approve policies, programmes, activities for the celebrations. It will also supervise implementation of the decisions taken by
the committee. |
| Suggesting Artificial Intelligence Policy: | Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology | Internal committee which will
provide suggestions to Indian government on framing a national policy on artificial intelligence (AI). |
| Appoint Editor-in-chief of RajyaSabha TV (RSTV). | Surya Prakash | To select the candidate for the post of editor-in-chief of RajyaSabha TV (RSTV). |
| Market Infrastructure Institutions (MII) | R Gandhi, | Reviewing norms related to stock
exchanges, clearing corporations and depository participants. |
| High-level Task Force on Public Credit Registry (PCR) for India. | Yeshwant M. Deosthalee. | Review and considerations, it will then propose a state-of-the-art information
system and suggest a roadmap for |
| developing a transparent, comprehensive and near-real-time PCR for India. | ||
| November | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| Standing Committee of Inter-State Council (ISC) | Prime Minister NarendraModi | Inter-State Council investigates and advises on disputes between states |
| Review of GST laws | M Vinod Kumar | The committee has been set up to provide suggestions for smoothening the GST regime, especially for small businesses who
have been complaining of a an increase in compliance burden |
| village climate resilient committees | Maharashtra Government | The Maharashtra state government has decided to set up a committee for the implementation of a Rs.4,000-crore project on climate resilience agriculture in 5,000 villages of 15 districts in the state. The
project would be funded by the World Bank. |
| Probe on NTPC’s Unchahar plant accident | P.D. Siwal | A boiler blast accident occurred at NTPC’s Unchahar plant in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh in which 36 people lost their lives. Union Power Ministry has set up a panel to probe this accident.
Union Power Ministry has set up a committee headed by P.D. Siwal, Member of Central Electricity Authority (CEA) to investigate the causes of this accident and suggest measures to prevent such incidents in future. |
| Investigations related to the Paradise Papers | Sushil Chandra | Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has reconstituted a multi-agency group to monitor investigations related to
the Paradise Papers. |
| Merger of weak DCCBs with MSC Bank | YashwantThorat | Maharashtra State government has formed a panel to study the feasibility of merging financially weak District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) with the Maharashtra State Cooperative (MSC) Bank.The panel is headed by former
NABARD chairman YashwantThorat. |
| 7-member-committee of secretaries | CK Mishra | As Delhi’s air is turning toxic over recent weeks and reaching crisis levels, the Centre stepped in and decided to set up a 7- member-committee of secretaries from the Centre, Delhi Government and experts to continuously monitor and implement a Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) that would include control of road and construction of dust garbage burning, control of power plants and industrial
emissions, entry of vehicles and several other related factors. |
| Price Stabilization Fund | Avinash K Srivastava | A panel led by India’s consumer affairs |
| Management Committee (PSFMC) | ministry under Avinash K Srivastava has decided to import the onions through a government agency to increase the availability of the same, in the market on moderate prices. | |
| RBI Panel on Hedging commodities in global markets | Chandan Sinha | It has recommended a list of commodities (which includes gold, silver, zinc, tin, crude oil and its derivatives, coal, natural gas, tea, coffee, sugar and cocoa) which can be hedged in the overseas markets by all residents i.e. by both domestic users and exporters/importers. |
| Seven-member committee to Curb custodial deaths | Sudhir Shrivastava | Minister of State for Home (Rural) Deepak Kesarkar informed that, the committee will recommend measures so that people get
proper treatment at police stations. |
| UP Shia Central Waqf Board (UPShCWB) | WaseemRizvi | IT suggests favour of a grand Ram temple at the disputed Ayodhya land, reiterating that the board was the rightful and only claimant to the land on which the demolished Babri mosque once existed.The Shia Board said the state government may in turn allot one acre of land for a mosque for Shia Muslims in
Lucknow’sHusainabad area |
| Hill Area Development Committee by West Bengal | Mann Ghising | The Hill Area Development Committee will be headed by Mann Ghising, president
of Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF). |
| Task force to simplify income tax laws | Arbind Modi | ArbindModi, Member, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), will lead a six- member panel. Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian will be
apermanent special invitee on the panel. |
| Qatar’s complaint against measures imposed on Doha by the United Arab Emirates | WTO | Qatar insisted UAE’s actions violate its rights and those of other countries by denying freedom of transit to Qatar. The UAE said the measures are allowed
according to an exception under WTO rules for national security reasons |
| Sub-Committee of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) | Urjit Patel | During this meeting, discussions were held on setting up of the National Centre for Financial Education (NCFE), sharing of data among regulators, operationalisation of information utilities registered by the IBBI and the implementation status of Legal
Entity Identifier (LEI). |
| DECEMBER | ||
| Name of the Committees | Chairpersons | Committees working for |
| National Commission for Minorities (NCM) ,New Delhi | NCM vice-chairman George Kurien | To look into a petition filed by BJP activist
Aswini Upadhyay for granting minority status to Hindus in eight states . |
| National Green Tribunal committee | NGT Chairperson Justice | To inspect over 1700 hotels, lodges and home stay accommodations in Kullu and
Manali towns of Himachal Pradesh. |
| Cow Protection Committees | Uttar Pradesh government | To make sure that cow sheds (gaushalas) are operated efficiently in all districts. |
| 24-member Select Committee of the Rajya Sabha | Vinay P Sahasrabuddhe | Has recommended body wearable cameras for traffic policemen and Regional Transport Offices (rtos) officials enforcing
the Motor Vehicles Act |
| Five-member committee for
technical and safety standards of India’s pod taxi scheme |
S K Dhramadhikari | To invite fresh bids incorporating strictest
safety standards on the lines of those prescribed by an American body. |
| Inter-ministerial committee – Electronic Media Monitoring
Centre (EMMC) |
Rajyavardhan Rathore | To look into complaints of violation of programme and advertising codes by TV
channels. |
| Indian Railways committee to review the flexi-fare system in premium trains | Ravinder Goyal, Meenakshi Malik , Iti Mani ,S.Sriram | Indian Railways formed a six-member committee to review the flexi-fare system in premium trains.The committee comprises Ravinder Goyal, Adviser in Niti Ayog,
Meenakshi Malik, Executive Director for Revenue Management in Air India |
| Committee for CMD s of public sector enterprises | Secretary (Coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat | To examine complaints filed against Chairman and Managing Directors (CMDs), chief executives, directors of public sector enterprises, public sector banks, insurance companies and financial
institutions. |
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