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on What topics. This post highlights important committees, commissions and panels formed during 2017, which can important for December 2018
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Important Committees, Panels & Commissions 2017

S.No Name of Committee Chairman Work Area

1 Empowered Expert Committee (EEC) N Gopalaswami To select top 20 educational institutes of eminence
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2 YH Malegam Committee YH Malegam To monitor bad loans, rising cases of frauds, audits – BY RBI

Now
To suggest changes to Section 126 of the Representation of
3 Umesh Sinha Commiittee – by ECI Umesh Sinha the People Act, 1951 (RP Act) in view of social media
expansion

To address problem of Non-performing assets (NPAs) or

4 Amitabh Kant Committe Amitabh Kant monsterindia.com
stressed assets in India’s power sector

President of India has constituted 15th Finance

5 15th Finance Commission N K Singh Commission which will make recommendations for the five Immediate
years commencing 1 April 2020 till 31 March 2025 Requirement.
6 Water Resouces Managent in NER Rajiv Kumar
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Five member of council – will analyse any issue economic
7 Economic Advisory Council EAC to PM Dr Bibek Debroy
or otherwise referred to it by the Prime minister

To shape and influence India’s preparation for multi-

8 Empowered Steering Committee (ESC Abhinav Bindra
disciplinary events, including 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

NCM vice- OPEN

National Commission for Minorities To look into a petition filed by BJP activist Aswini Upadhyay
9 chairman
(NCM) ,New Delhi for granting minority status to Hindus in eight states
George Kurien

Technical and safety standards of India’s SK To invite fresh bids incorporating strictest safety standards
10
pod taxi scheme Dhramadhikari on the lines of those prescribed by an American body

Inter-ministerial committee – Electronic
11
Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC)
12 Task force to simplify income tax laws
Rajyavardhan To look into complaints of violation of programme and
Rathore advertising codes by TV channels. 
Arbind Modi Six- member panel, Chief Economic Advisor Arvind
Subramanian will be a permanent special invitee.
 Sudhir The committee will recommend measures so that people Download PDF eBooks
13 committee to Curb custodial deaths
Shrivastava get proper treatment at police stations

It has decided to import the onions through a government

Avinash K
14 Price Stabilization Fund agency to increase the availability of the same, in the
Srivastava
market on moderate prices.

Propose a state-of-the-art information system and suggest

High-level Task Force on Public Credit Yeshwant M.
15 a roadmap for developing a transparent, comprehensive
Registry (PCR) for India. Deosthalee.
and near-real-time PCR for India.

Reviewing norms related to stock exchanges, clearing

16 Market Infrastructure Institutions (MII) R Gandhi
corporations and depository participants. New Release:
By Union Ministry of Electronics and Information
17 Artificial Intelligence Policy:
Technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for India’s Economic

18 Artificial Intelligence Task Force Dr. V. Kamakoti
Transformation.

N To study use and application of artificial intelligence (AI) in

19 AI application in Military
Chandrasekaran military

Commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th

20 PM
birth anniversary

To suggest improvements in the National Sports

21 Sports Code committee Injeti Srinivas
Development Code functioning of sports federations.

Prof. Timothy Suggested to create 20 percent reservation seats for the

22 Timothy Gonsalves Committee
Gonsalves girl students in IITs

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Supreme Court Appointed Vinod Rai as BCCI Committee’s
23 Vinod Rai
administrative committee Head
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To frame uniform rules for the states to avoid delay in
24 Kang committtee N.S. Kang proper implementation of the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (RPD) Act across the country In case on Non-receipt of PDF after
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25 Defence Procurement Organisation Dr. Pritam Singh
of defence acquisitions registered email ID and PDF shall be
To review the threats emerging from the use of technology, sent to you on email itself.
RBI Executive
study adoption of new technology standards and suggest
26 Committee on Cyber Security Director Meena
appropriate policy interventions to strengthen cyber
Hemchan
security and resilience.

To look into te Water sharing between Andhra Pradesh and

27 Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) A K Bajaj
Telangana

28 DB Shekatkar Committee DB Shekhar To reform the military financial management

To prepare draft Ganga Act submitted its report to the

Justice Shri
29 Girdhar Malviya committee Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and
Girdhar Malviya
Ganga Rejuvenation

30 Chitale Committee Madhav Chitale To recommends measures for desiltation of river Ganga

To propose new regulations related

31 Virtual Currency Committee Dinesh Sharma
to digital currencies or virtual currencies

Kewal Kumar To review UGC recommendations on

32 Kewal Kumar Sharma committee
Sharma 7th Pay commission in educational institutes

Mr. Ashok To establish a regulated wholesale agri- market at a

33 Agricultural Produce Market Committee
Dalwai distance of every 80 km

Krishnaswamy
34 Panel on National Education Policy To draft the National Education Policy
Kasturirangan

To improving the standards of corporate governance of

35 Committee on Corporate Governance UdayKotak
listed companies

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

Justice B.N
36 Data Protection appointed an expert panel committee that would study
Srikrishna
various issues relating to data protection

To review the National Mineral Policy, 2008, and for

37 Mineral Policy Committee K RajeswaraRao
submission of a report for a new National Mineral Policy.

38 Second National Judicial Pay Commission P V Reddi New salary structure for judges of lower courts in India 
39 New Haj policy 2018-22 AfzalAmanullah
 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

Includes Secretaries of the ministries of Communications,

Committee to roll out 5G technology in
40 Information Technology and Science and Technology,
India by 2020.
representatives from industry and academics.

The committee has suggested that section 78 of the IT Act

41 Hate speech on internet T.K.Viswanathan needs to be substituted and Section 153 & 505A of the
Indian PenalCode needs to be amended

Institutionalization of Arbitration Justice BN

42
Mechanism Srikrishna

Madhukar
43 Madhukar Gupta Committee Border Protection
Gupta

Partha Recommended Legal framework to protect interests of

44 Working Group on Migration
Mukhopadha migrants

45 RBI Overseeing Committee Pradeep Kumar To look at the stressed assets of the banking sector.

It has recommended a list of commodities (which includes

gold, silver, zinc, tin, crude oil and its derivatives, coal,
RBI Panel on Hedging commodities in
46 Chandan Sinha natural gas, tea, coffee, sugar and cocoa) which can be
global markets
hedged in the overseas markets by all residents i.e. by both
domestic users and exporters/importers.

Sub-Committee of the Financial Stability

47 Urjit Patel
and Development Council (FSDC)

Committee has been set up to provide suggestions for

smoothening the GST regime, especially for small
48 Review of GST laws M Vinod Kuma
businesses who have been complaining of a an increase in
compliance burden

Standing Committee of Inter-State Prime Minister Inter-State Council investigates and advises
49
Council (ISC) NarendraModi on disputes between states

To review the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget

50 N.K. Singh Committee N.K. Singh
Management (FRBM) Act.

To analysis the existing framework

Amitabh
51 Amitabh Chaudhry committee of IRDA-linked and non-linked insurance product
Chaudhry
regulations

Dilip C To help in implementing the new risk-based capital (RBC)

52 IRDAI panel
Chakraborty regime and it will also enhance protection to policyholders.

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