Important Committees and Its Recommendations:-

1. Raja Chelliah Committee (1991)

Purpose : To lay out agenda for reforming India’s tax system.

Recommendation:

➢ In order to make the direct tax system more effective, it is necessary to reduce the tax rate so that
there is less tax evasion and avoidance.
➢ Double taxation has to be avoided to lift the industrial sector out of stagnation.
➢ Reducing corporate tax rate differences between domestic and foreign companies.
➢ Rationalizing capital gains tax and wealth tax.
➢ A reduction in the general level of tariffs.

2. Kasturirangan Committee (2019)

Purpose : to frame a draft of the New National Education Policy.

Recommendation:

➢ The Committee has suggested major technology interventions in both school education and higher
education with the learning outcome-driven approach to education.
➢ One of the important areas where the Committee has worked is to bridge the growing mismatch
between the skills the fast-changing demand of the job market. There is more focus on skilling
children, a shift from rote learning approach.
➢ A restructuring of higher education institutions with three types of higher education institutions is
proposed-
Type 1: Focused on world-class research and high quality teaching
Type 2: Focused on high quality teaching across disciplines with significant contribution to research
Type 3: High quality teaching focused on undergraduate education.
This will be driven by two Missions -Mission Nalanda & Mission Takshashila.
➢ A new apex body Rashtriya Shiksha Ayog is proposed to enable a holistic and integrated
implementation of all educational initiatives and programmatic interventions, and to coordinate
efforts between the Centre and States.
➢ The National Research Foundation, an apex body is proposed for creating a strong research culture
and building research capacity across higher education.
➢ The Committee also recommends Extension of Right to Education Act 2009 to cover children of ages 3
to 18. A 5+3+3+4 curricular and pedagogical structure based on cognitive and socio-emotional
developmental stages of children.
➢ Schools will be re-organized into school complexes. It also seeks to reduce content load in school
education curriculum.

3. Punchhi Commission (2010)

Purpose : To look into the new issues of Centre-State relations.

Recommendation:

➢ To examine whether there is a need to set up a Central law enforcement agency to take up suo motu
investigation of crimes having inter-State or international ramifications with serious implications on
national security.
➢ To examine the role of Governors, emergency provisions, financial relations, economic and social
planning, Panchayati Raj institutions and sharing of resources, including inter-State river waters.
➢ This commission dealt at length with Emergency provisions under Article 355 and Article 356 and
proposed safeguards to prevent their abuse to dismiss state governments. The commission has also
studied set-ups like the National Investigation Agency, and recommended procedures to ensure
smooth co-operation of the states in terror investigations entrusted to NIA.
➢ There should be a mechanism whereby the centre consults states before introducing a bill on
concurrent list items. This consultation mechanism should be through inter-state council.
➢ Centre should occupy only that much of subjects in concurrent list or any other overlapping
jurisdiction which is absolutely needed to achieve uniformity of policy in national interest.
➢ Once a bill is passed in legislative assembly and then reserved by the governor for president’s
consideration, President applies pocket veto in several cases. No communication is given to the state
which is baffling for states. Thus, there should be mechanism so that president communicates his
decision in reasonable time.
➢ There should be clear guidelines for the appointment of chief ministers, so that there is sort of
regulation on discretionary power of Governor.
➢ A pre-poll alliance should be treated as one political party.
➢ The post electoral alliance with some parties joining the government and remaining including
Independents supporting from outside.
➢ The Punchhi commission recommended that the person who is slated to be a Governor should not
have participated in active politics at even local level for at least a couple of years before his
appointment.
➢ Appointment of governor should be entrusted to a committee comprising the Prime Minister, Home
Minister, Speaker of the Lok Sabha and chief minister of the concerned state. The Vice- President can
also be involved in the process.
➢ There should be provisions for impeachment of the Governor by the state legislature along the same
lines as that of President by President. (Goes against doctrine of pleasure)
➢ Article 355 and 356 should be amended. Via these amendments, the Centre should be enabled to
bring specific troubled areas under its rule for a limited period. This means that the commission
recommended for “localizing emergency provisions” under Articles 355 and 356, contending that
localized areas — either a district or parts of a district — be brought under Governor’s rule instead of
the whole state. The duration of such an emergency provision should however not be of duration of
more than three months.
➢ For internal security, commission recommended creation of an overriding structure on the lines of the
US Home-land Security department, giving more teeth to the National Integration Council. However, it
rejected constitutional status to NIC.
➢ The commission recommended that the Communal Violence Bill should be amended to allow
deployment of Central forces without the state’s consent for a short period. The state consent should
not become a hurdle in deployment of central forces in a communal conflagration. However, such
deployment should only be for a week and post-facto consent should be taken from the state.

4. Urjit R Patel Committee (2014)

Purpose : To Revise and Strengthen the Monetary Policy Framework

Recommendation:

➢ RBI should adopt the new Consumer Price Index (CPI) for anchoring the monetary policy.
➢ Set the inflation target at 4% with a band of +/- 2% around it.
➢ Monetary policy decision making should be vested in a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that should be
headed by the Governor.
 ➢ The two schemes- Dependence on Market Stabilization Scheme (MSS) and Cash Management Bills
(CMBs) may be discontinue and the government debt and cash management must be taken over by the
government’s Debt Management Office.
➢ All fixed income financial products should be treated on par with the bank deposits for the purposes of
taxation and TDS.
➢ Detachment of Open Market Operations (OMOs) from the fiscal operations and instead linked solely to
the liquidity management. OMOs should not be used for managing yields on government on government
securities.
➢ Main objective of the committee was to recommend what needs to be done to revise and strengthen the
current monetary policy framework with a view to making it transparent and predictable.

5. Bimal Jalan Committee (2019)

Purpose : To Review the Extant Economic Capital Framework of the Reserve Bank of India

Recommendation:

➢ The committee recommended a clear distinction between two components of the economic capital of RBI
• Revaluation Reserves: It comprise of periodic marked-to-market unrealized/notional gains/losses
in values of foreign currencies and gold, foreign securities and rupee securities, and a contingency
fund.
• Realized equity: which is a form of a contingency fund for meeting all risks/losses primarily built
up from retained earnings. It is also called the Contingent Risk Buffer (CRB).
➢ The committee has given a range of 5.5-6.5% of RBI's balance sheet for Contingent Risk Buffer.
➢ The Committee has recommended the adoption of Expected Shortfall (ES) methodology under stressed
conditions (in place of the extant Stressed-Value at Risk) for measuring the RBI’s market risk on which
there was growing consensus among central banks as well as commercial banks over the recent years.

6. Bibek Debroy Committee (2014)

Purpose : Mobilization of Resources for Major Railway Projects and Restructuring of Railway Ministry and
Railway Board.

Recommendation:
➢ The committee recommends setting up an overarching Railway Regulatory Authority of India (RRAI) as an
independent regulatory body.
➢ Indian Railways should shed its complicated accounting and move to standard commercial accounting by
following principles and norms accepted nationally and internationally.
➢ It recommended that present eight organized Group ‘A’ services in Indian Railways can be broadly
categorized in two bigger groupings viz. technical and Non-Technical.
➢ Indian Railways should focus on core activities to efficiently compete with the private sector. It will
distance itself from non-core activities, such as running a police force, schools, hospitals and production
and construction units.
➢ Private sector should be allowed into running both freight and passenger trains in competition with
Indian railways.
➢ A separate Railway budget should be phased out progressively and merged with the General Budget and
eventually also integrates the Ministry of Railways with Ministry of Transport.
➢ An Investment Advisory Committee may be set up, consisting of experts, investment bankers and
representatives of SEBI, RBI, IDFC and other institution for raising resources for investment.

7. Gadgil Committee (2011) [Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel(WGEEP)]

Purpose : to find a strategy for conserving these Western Ghats.

Recommendation:

➢ The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) designated the entire hill range as an Ecologically
Sensitive Area (ESA).
➢ The panel has classified the 142 taluks in the Western Ghats boundary into Ecologically Sensitive Zones
(ESZ) 1, 2 and 3.
➢ ESZ-1 being of high priority, almost all developmental activities (mining, thermal power plants etc) were
restricted in it.
➢ Report recommended that “no new dams based on large-scale storage be permitted in Ecologically
Sensitive Zone 1. Since both the Athirappilly of Kerala and Gundia of Karnataka hydel project sites fall in
Ecologically Sensitive Zone 1, these projects should not be accorded environmental clearance,” it said.
➢ The Committee report specifies that the present system of governance of the environment should be
changed. It asked for a bottom to top approach (right from Gram sabhas) rather than a top to bottom
approach. It also asked for decentralization and more powers to local authorities.
➢ The commission recommended constitution of a Western Ghats Ecology Authority (WGEA), as a statutory
authority under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, with the powers under Section 3 of
the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
8. Kasturirangan Committee (2011)
Purpose : To examine the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP)report.

Recommendation:

➢ Instead of the total area of Western Ghats, only 37% (i.e. 60,000 sq. km.) of the total area be brought
under Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA).
➢ A complete ban on mining, quarrying and sand mining in ESA.
➢ Distinguished between cultural (58% occupied in the Western Ghats by it like human settlements,
agricultural fields and plantations) and natural landscape (90% of it should come under ESA according to
the committee).
➢ Current mining areas in the ESA should be phased out within the next five years, or at the time of expiry
of mining lease, whichever is earlier.
➢ No thermal power be allowed and hydropower projects are allowed only after detailed study.
➢ Red industries i.e. which are highly polluting be strictly banned in these areas.
➢ Report has made several pro-farmer recommendations, including the exclusion of inhabited regions and
plantations from the purview of ESAs.

9. U K Sinha Committee (2019)

Purpose : To suggest long-term measures for the economic and financial sustainability of the MSME sector.

Recommendation:

➢ The MSMED Act, 2006 may be reimagined as a comprehensive and holistic MSME Code having a provision
for sunset on plethora of complex laws scattered all over the legislative framework.
➢ The Committee recommends a more focused engagement of SIDBI with State Governments for MSME
development and promotion.
➢ The PSBLoansIn59Minutes portal currently caters primarily to existing entrepreneur on account of its
reliance on GST, income tax data, etc. Facility for new entrepreneurs presently under development needs
to be expeditiously deployed. Limit of the loans should be enhanced to Rs. 5 crore. Further, Loans
sanctioned under Standup India and MUDRA should be included in portal. Banks need to ensure that all
applications accorded in principal approval are disposed of within a period of 7-10 days.
➢ SIDBI, as a nodal agency, should ideally play role of a facilitator to create platform wherein various
Venture Capital Funds can participate and in turn create multiplier effect for providing Equity Support to
MSMEs.
➢ An amendment may be made to the MSMED Act, 2006 requiring all MSMEs to mandatorily upload all
their invoices above an amount to be specified by Government, from time to time on Information Utilities
(IU) set up under IBC. To begin with, this could be for invoices above Rs. 1 crore.
➢ The Committee recommends that for the purpose of scaling up portal, the Government may make it
mandatory for PSUs / Government Departments to meet their MSME procurement targets through GeM
portal only.
➢ The Committee recommends khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) should be corporatized with
focus on promotional work.

10. Rajiv Kumar Committee (2018)

Purpose : To look at selling of small and marginal oil and gas fields of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp
(ONGC) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) to private and foreign companies to boost domestic output.

Recommendation:

➢ Allow ONGC to concentrate on the large fields as they contribute to 95 percent of its production and
leave out the rest for private firms.
➢ India wants to cut oil import dependence by 10% by 2022.
➢ 149 smaller fields of ONGC, OIL and other explorers accounted for just 5% of domestic crude oil
production.

11. Ratan Watal Committee (2016)

Purpose: To Promote Digital Payments in India.

Recommendation:

➢ The Committee has recommended medium term strategy for accelerating growth of Digital Payments in
India.
➢ It also recommends inclusion of financially and socially excluded groups and assimilation of emerging
technologies in the market.
➢ It calls for need of safeguarding security of Digital Transactions and providing level playing to all
stakeholders and new players who will enter this new transaction space.
➢ It has suggested inter-operability of payments system between banks and non-banks, up-gradation of
digital payment infrastructure and institutions.
➢ It also recommends a framework to reward innovations for leading efforts in enabling digital payments.
➢ Greater use of Aadhaar and mobile numbers for making digital payments as easy as cash.
➢ Proposed to make regulation of payments independent from the function of central banking to give the
entire digital payments boost.
➢ Give Board for Regulation and Supervision of Payment and Settlement Systems (BPSS) independent
statutory status within overall structure of RBI.
➢ Called for amendments to the Payments and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 to provide BPSS explicit
mandate for competition and innovation, consumer protection, open access and interoperability,
regulations on systemic risks and data protection.
➢ Operations of payment systems like National Electronic Fund Transafer (NEFT) and Real Time Gross
Settlement (RTGS) can be outsourced after a cost benefit analysis.

12. Lodha Committee (2015)

Purpose: To recommend reforms in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Recommendation:

➢ Ministers and civil servants and those above 70 years of age cannot become BCCI members.
➢ An office-bearer of BCCI cannot hold a post for more than three years.
➢ Parliament to decide whether BCCI should come under the Right to Information Act (RTI).
➢ There should be a player’s association in the BCCI.
➢ Disallowing BCCI office-bearer from holding dual posts simultaneously i.e. in a state cricket association
and in the BCCI
➢ Each state should have only one vote. States like Maharashtra and Gujarat having more than one cricket
association will have voting rights on rotational basis.
➢ Member of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to be included in the BCCI’s governing council.

13. B N Srikrishna Committee (2017)

Purpose: To deliberate on a data protection framework.

Recommendation:

➢ The committee has submitted its report on "Data Protection Framework" to the Government. The
Committee has also proposed a draft Personal Data Protection Bill.
➢ The data protection law will set up a Data Protection Authority (DPA), which will be an independent
regulatory body responsible for the enforcement and effective implementation of the law.
➢ The Bill lays out provisions on data storage, making it mandatory for a copy of personal data to be stored
in India.
➢ The Central Government shall establish an appellate tribunal or grant powers to an existing appellate
tribunal to hear and dispose of any appeal against an order of the DPA.
➢ Penalties may be imposed for violations of the data protection law. The penalties imposed would be an
amount up to the fixed upper limit or a percentage of the total worldwide turnover of the preceding
financial year, whichever is higher.
➢ The penalties paid by violating entities in this case will be deposited to a Data Protection Fund, which will,
among other purposes, finance the functioning of the Data Protection Authority.
➢ For data processors not present in India, the Act will apply to those carrying on business in India or other
activities such as profiling which could cause privacy harms to data principals in India.
➢ The report has also recommended amendments to the RTI Act, pointing out that disclosure of information
from public authorities may lead to private harm being caused.
➢ The state can process data without consent of the user on ground of public welfare, law and order,
emergency situations where the individual is incapable of providing consent, employment, and
reasonable purpose.
➢ Personal data determined to be critical will be subject to the requirement to process only in India (there
will be a prohibition against cross border transfer for such data).
➢ Committee has made specific mention of the need for separate and more stringent norms for protecting
the data of children, recommending that companies be barred from certain types of data processing such
as behavioral monitoring, tracking, targeted advertising and any other type of processing which is not in
the best interest of the child.

14. Dhirendra Singh Committee (2015)

Purpose: To evolve a policy framework for facilitating ‘Make in India’ within the purview of the Defence
Procurement Procedure (DPP).
Recommendation:

➢ Capital acquisition of defence equipment is carried out as per the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP),
which stipulates a time schedule for completion of the procurement cycle.
➢ Defence Procurement Procedure focuses on achieving the “Make in India” vision by according priority to
‘Buy (Indian – IDDM (Indian Designed, Developed and Manufactured)), ‘Buy (Indian)’ and ‘Buy & Make
(Indian)’ categories over Buy (Global) category of capital procurement.
➢ The Committee has recommended a ‘Strategic Partnership Model’ for creating capacity in the private
sector on a long-term basis over and above the capacity and infrastructure that exists in Public Sector
Units.

15. Nachiket Mor Committee (2013)

Purpose: Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low Income Households.

Recommendation:

➢ Providing a universal bank account to all Indians above the age of 18 years by January 1, 2016. To achieve
this, a vertically differentiated banking system with payments banks for deposits and payments and
wholesale banks for credit outreach. These banks need to have Rs.50 crore by way of capital, which is a
tenth of what is applicable for new banks that are to be licensed.
➢ Aadhaar will be the prime driver towards rapid expansion in the number of bank accounts.
➢ Monitoring at the district level such as deposits and advances as a percentage of gross domestic product
(GDP).
➢ Adjusted 50 per cent priority sector lending target with adjustments for sectors and regions based on
difficulty in lending.

16. TSR Subramanian Committee (2015)

Purpose: to chalk out a new education policy

Recommendation:
 ➢ An Indian Education Service (IES) should be established as an all India service with officers being on
permanent settlement to the state governments but with the cadre controlling authority vesting with the
Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry.
➢ The outlay on education should be raised to at least 6% of GDP without further loss of time.
➢ There should be minimum eligibility condition with 50% marks at graduate level for entry to existing B.Ed
courses. Teacher Entrance Tests (TET) should be made compulsory for recruitment of all teachers. The
Centre and states should jointly lay down norms and standards for TET.
➢ Compulsory licensing or certification for teachers in government and private schools should be made
mandatory, with provision for renewal every 10 years based on independent external testing.
➢ Pre-school education for children in the age group of 4 to 5 years should be declared as a right and a
programme for it implemented immediately.
➢ The no detention policy must be continued for young children until completion of class V when the child
will be 11 years old. At the upper primary stage, the system of detention shall be restored subject to the
provision of remedial coaching and at least two extra chances being offered to prove his capability to
move to a higher class
➢ On-demand board exams should be introduced to offer flexibility and reduce year end stress of students
and parents. A National Level Test open to every student who has completed class XII from any School
Board should be designed.
➢ The mid-day meal (MDM) program should now be extended to cover students of secondary schools. This
is necessary as levels of malnutrition and anaemia continue to be high among adolescents.
➢ UGC Act must be allowed to lapse once a separate law is created for the management of higher
education. The University Grants Commission (UGC) needs to be made leaner and thinner and given the
role of disbursal of scholarships and fellowships.
➢ Top 200 foreign universities should be allowed to open campuses in India and give the same degree which
is acceptable in the home country of the said university.

17. Divakar Reddy Committee (2016)

Purpose: To stipulates tough punishments for celebs endorsing misleading ads.

Recommendation:

➢ Celebrities for misleading ads for the second time should be made to undergo jail term of 5 years and
penalty up to INR 50 lakhs.
 ➢ Legal teeth will also be given to Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) to curb such ads and
advocates empowered Department of Consumer Affairs to regulate e-commerce, direct selling and multi-
level marketing with consumer complaints increasing.
➢ Offender may be penalized with fine of INR 10 lakh or imprisonment of two years or both

18. Renuka Chowdhury Committee (2016)

Purpose: for a National Policy on Forest Fire.

Recommendation:

➢ National policy on managing forest fires must be framed.

➢ Replacing pine reserve forests areas with “broad-leaf” plants.
➢ Procurement of sweeping machin to clear roadsides of Chir pine needles.
➢ Advocating large-scale incentives and programmes (including under MNREGA) to collect pines for use as
fuel, and other incineration.

19. Malimath Committee (2003)

Purpose: To Reforms of Criminal Justice System

Recommendation:

➢ Its report has suggested the dilution of many of the pre-trial safeguards against violence in police
custody that an accused has.
➢ For instance, it seeks to double the 90-day period available for filing a charge-sheet after which an
accused can be released on bail.
➢ It also recommends that the permissible 15-day police remand of an accused be doubled for grave
offences.
➢ Committee seems to have concentrated on the rights of the victim. It mentions the need to formulate a
witness protection programme, reclassify offences, and involve the victim in all stages of the trial.
➢ On the question of making investigations more effective, it suggests the setting up of a State Security
Commission, as recommended by the NPC, to insulate the police from political pressure.
➢ It has expanded the definition of rape to include all forms of forcible penetration, are eclipsed by the
indifference to most of the concerns of the women’s movements.
➢ The committee does not favor the death penalty for rapists. In fact, the report states that wherever the
death penalty is a possible punishment it should be replaced with life imprisonment without
commutation or remission.

20. Nandan Nilekani Committee (2019)

Purpose : Deepening digital payment.

Recommendations:

➢ Removal of transaction charges on digital payments made to government.

➢ There should be no convenience fee on consumers for digital payments made to state run entities
and central departments.
➢ Merchant Discount Rates (MDR): 15 basis points cut on the interchange rate on card payments
which is borne by the merchants.
➢ Removal of existing 18 % import duty on POS (point of sale) machines for a period of three years.
➢ Reduce the goods and services tax (GST) on digital transactions so that the acceptance of digital
payments can be improved among the customers.

21. Kirit Parekh Committee (2013)

Purpose : Viable and Sustainable System of Pricing of Petroleum Products.

Recommendations:

➢ Petrol and diesel prices should be market determined both at the refinery gate and at the retail level.
➢ An additional excise duty of Rs 80,000 should be levied on diesel cars.
➢ The price of PDS kerosene should be increased by at least Rs 6/litre.
 ➢ Thereafter, price of PDS kerosene should be raised every year in step with the growth in per capital
agricultural GDP at nominal prices. Prices of domestic LPG should be increased by at least Rs 100 per
cylinder.
➢ The price of domestic LPG should be periodically revised based the rising per capita income.
➢ The subsidy on domestic LPG should be discontinued for all others except the BPL households once an
effective targeting system is in place.

22. Ramesh Chand Committee (2013)

Purpose : to examine the methodological issues in the fixing of MSPs.

Recommendations:

➢ The committee suggested inclusion of post-harvest costs, calculating rental value of land at existing
prices and interest costs on actual basis, to en sure remunerative prices.
➢ A deficiency price payment mechanism for crops for which an MSP is declared but purchase doesn’t
materialize.
➢ The government could compensate farmers for the difference between the MSP and (lower) market
price.

23. Tapan Ray Committee (2019)

Purpose : to review regulatory guidelines and supervisory framework applicable to core investment
companies(CIC) .

Recommendations:

➢ Any CIC within a group should not make an investment through more than a total of two layers of
CICs, including itself.
➢ Every group having a CIC should have a Group Risk Management Committee (GRMC).
 ➢ The panel also said that the current threshold of Rs 100 crore asset size and access to public funds for
registration as CIC should be retained.
➢ CICs without access to the public funds may not register with the Reserve Bank.
➢ The panel also added that step-down CICs may not be permitted to invest in any other CIC, while
allowing them to invest freely in other group companies.
➢ The panel also entails that the complexity of large conglomerates renders opacity to the groups in
terms of ownership, controls and related party transactions.
➢ It also recommended that the number of layers of CICs in a group should be limited through
regulation.

24. T.N. Manoharan Committee (2019)

Purpose : to examine the possibilities of a secondary market for corporate loans in India

Recommendations:

➢ The committee suggested creating a self-regulatory body (SRB) to manage the secondary market.
➢ This would develop appropriate benchmark rates for secondary market purchase and sale of
corporate loans.
➢ It said the secondary market for corporate loans, currently dominated by banks, be thrown open to
mutual funds, pension funds, and insurance companies.
➢ The term loans be prioritized for sale in the secondary market.

25. B P Jeevan Reddy Committee (2019)

Purpose : to review the provisions of the AFSPA act in the north eastern states.

Recommendations:

➢ AFSPA should be repealed and appropriate provisions should be inserted in the Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act, 1967
 • The Unlawful Activities Act should be modified to clearly specify the powers of the armed
forces and paramilitary forces and
➢ Grievance cells should be set up in each district where the armed forces are deployed.

26. Anoop Satpathy Committee (2019)

Purpose : Determining the Methodology for Fixation of the National Minimum Wage to the Government of
India.

Recommendations:

➢ The report recommended a balanced diet approach which is culturally edible for fixation of national
minimum wage. It proposed a particular amount of food items per day per person to constitute a
national level balanced food basket.
➢ It proposes that expenditure on any other non-food items be equivalent to 25-30 percent of the
household expenditure distribution as per the survey data of 2011-12 by National Sample Survey
Office (NSSO).
➢ It recommended the fixation of need based National Minimum Wage for India at Rs 375 per day or Rs
9,750 per month irrespective of sectors, skills, occupations and rural-urban locations for a family
comprising of 3.6 consumption units.
➢ It recommended to introduce an additional house rent allowance or city compensatory allowance of
Rs 55 per day or Rs 1,430 per month for urban workers, over and above the National Minimum Wage.
➢ It recommended reviewing the food consumption basket once in every five years, subject to the
availability of NSSO-CES data.
➢ It also recommended revising and updating the basic minimum wage at least in line with the
Consumer Price Index (CPI) every six months to reflect changes in the cost of living.
 Other Important Committees
No. COMMITTEES CONSTITUTED FOR
1. Alok Srivastav Committee (2019) To examine the issues related to framing of a proper, structured
scheme for providing insurance cover to advocates
2. Ranjan Prakash Desai Committee To recommend the chairperson and members of Lokpal.
(2019)
3. Sushil Kumar Modi Committee To look into revenue shortfall being faced by the states after the
(2019) GST roll-out, and suggest steps for augmenting collections.

4. V. G. Kannan Committee (2019) To reduce prices for customers on ATM transactions, with a
broader objective to improve rural penetration of teller
machines.
5. Adarsh Kumar Goel Committee to look into illegal sand mining claim
(2019)
6. Sanjeev Sharma Committee (2019) To help bring down tax litigation
7. D. K. Mohanty Committee (2019) on Currency Movement
8. Suresh Mathur Committee (2019) To review regulatory framework on micro insurance, and to
recommend measures to increase demand for such products.
9. Kargil Review Committee (2001) To examine the sequence of events of Kargil war and make
recommendations for the future.
10. B V R Mohan Reddy Committee To provide Short and Medium Term Perspectives for
(2019) Engineering Education
11. P K Sinha Committee (2018) To Address the issues of Stressed Thermal Power Projects.
12. Abid Hussain Committee(2015) Small scale industries and Trade Policy Reform
13. JJ Irani Committee(2004) Company laws; Formation of the new Companies Act
14. Kelkar Committee (2015) Assessing PPP in India and Tax Structure Reforms
15. Malegam Committee (2010) Microfinance
16. Suresh Tendulkar Committee (2005) Methodology of estimation of poverty
17. Rangarajan Committee (2012) Computerization Of Banking Industry and Public Sector
Disinvestment
18. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar panel To suggest the best technologies for Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan
(2016)
19. K V Kamath Panel (2016) To examine the MSME sector
20. A.K Mathur Commission (2013) 7th Pay Commission