CLAT 2010: Important Commissions

1. Palekar Tribunal:-Journalists’ Pay reforms

2. U.C. Banerjee Commission:- Enquiry into Godhra carnage (railways)

3. Sarkaria Commission: Centre-State relations

4. Srikrishna Commission: 1992 Bombay riots

5. Thakkar Commission: Indira Gandhi assassination case

6. Phukan Commission & Saharya Committee: Tehelka tapes

7. Malimath Commission: Criminal Justice

8. Upendra Commission: Inquiry on rape and murder Thangjam Manorama Devi

9. Malhotra Committee: Insurance Reforms

10. Janaki Ram Committee: Security scam

11. Ajay Vikram Singh Committee: Faster promotions in army

12. Rajinder Sachar Committee {1}: Companies and MRPT Act

13. Rajindar Sachar Committee {2}: Report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslims of India

14. Jyoti Basu Committee: Report on Octroi abolition

15 Balwant Rai Mehta Committee:Recommendations on decentralization system

16. Sawant Committee: Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers & Anna Hazare

17. Chelliah Committee: Eradicating black money

18. Kothari Commission: Educational reforms

19. Wanchoo Committee: Tax enquiry

20. Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee: Agriculture

21. Aggarwal Committee: Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections

22. Rangarajan Committee: Reforms in private sector

23. Naresh Chandra Committee: Corporate governance

24. Chakravarti Committee: Banking sector reforms

25. Rekhi Committee: Structure of indirect taxation

26. G.V.Ramakrishna Committee: Disinvestment in PSU shares

27. Kelkar Committee: First committee on backward castes

28. P.C.Hotha Committee: Restructuring of civil services

29. Justice B.N.Kirpal Committee: 1st chairman National Forest Commission

30. Godbole Committee :Enron Power Project

31. J.C.Kumarappa Committee: Congress agrarian Reforms Committee

32. Swaminathan Committee: Population policy

33. Rangarajan Committee: Statistics

34. Wardha Committee: Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines

35. N.N. Vohra Committee: Criminalization of politics

36. Kelkar Committee {2}: Direct-Indirect Taxes

37. Alagh Committee: Civil Service Examinations

38. Abid Hussain Committee: Recommendations on Small scale industries

39. Narasimham Committee: Banking sector reforms

40. Chelliah Committee:Tax reforms

41. Mashelkar Committee: National Auto Fuel Policy

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

43. Omkar Goswami Committee: Industrial sickness

44. Yashpal Committee: Review of School Education system

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

46. Kelkar Committee{3} :Enquiry on Kargil defense deals.

47. M.M. Punchhi Commission: Centre-State Relations [note- this committee has been set up recently- after the sad demise of Justice (Retd.) Sarkaria]

48. Thorat Committee: Caste-based discrimination against students in AIIMS

49. R.K.Raghavan Committee: Ragging in colleges

51. James Lyngdoh Committee- Student politics and student-body elections in colleges.

52. E.M.S. Nachiappan Committee: Reforms in the higher judiciary

53. Soli Sorabjee Committee: Police Reforms [it was constituted after the Judgement of the Supreme Court in Parkash Singh vs Union of India (2006)]

54. Ganguli Committee: Review of health facility planning and healthcare engineering and management

55. Percy Mistry Committee: Making Mumbai an IFC (International Financial Centre)

56. K.T. Thomas Committee- to look into ways of enhancing the effectives of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act

57. Fali S. Nariman Committee- Accountability and damages with regard to destruction of public property

58. Satwant Reddy Committee- review of laws relating to registration of pharmaceutical drugs and clinical trials

59. Raghuram C. Rajan Committee- financial sector reforms

60. Shah Commission (1966)- reorganisation of States

61. Tarkunde Committee- composition of the Election Commission and other electoral reforms

62. Dinesh Goswami Committee- electoral reforms

63. G.V.K. Rao Committee (1985) - set up by the planning commission in 1985, to look into the Administrative Arrangement for Rural Development and poverty Alleviation Programmes.

64. Butler Committee: Relation between Indian states & paramount power (the Queen of Britain)

65. Hurtog Committee: Growth of British India education-its effects

66. Muddiman Committee: Working of Diarchy as in Montague Chelmsford reforms