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Committees & Commissions 2017 (Jan - Sept)

Name of the Committees
Sports Code committee
Negotiation Committee on
Mahanadi & its Tributaries
Timothy Gonsalves Committee
Special Task Force
Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) administrative
committee
Kang committtee
N.K. Singh Committee
Amitabh Chaudhry committee
January
Chairpersons Committees working for
Injeti Srinivas To suggest improvements in the National
Sports Development Code functioning of
sports federations.
Water Planning and Projects To determine the availability and utilization
Wing (WP&P) and Central of waters of the river Mahanadi and its
Water Commission (CWC). tributaries.
Prof. Timothy Gonsalves Suggested to create 20 percent
reservation seats for the girl students in IITs
Anil Baijal To review the decisions taken by the Delhi
Police and other departments regarding
women’s safety
Vinod Rai Supreme Court Appoints Vinod Rai as
BCCI Committee’s Head
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 To review the Fiscal Responsibility and
Budget Management (FRBM) Act.
Amitabh Chaudhry To analysis the existing framework
of IRDA-linked and non-linked insurance
product regulations

Name of the Committees
Six-member committee
16-member Committee
Sub-Panel of CABE
33 member committee
Inter-Departmental Task Force
11 member panel
Defence Procurement Organisation
(DPO)
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February
Chairpersons
Jeddah, Afzal Amanullah
Dr. H.R. Nagendra
Kadiyam Srihari
N Chandrababu Naidu
Revenue Secretary Hasmukh
Adhia and the Corporate Affairs
Secretary Tapan Rayto
Dr. Pritam Singh
Committees working for
To look into the matter of how to improve
the Haj Poilcy of India
To Prepare a Yoga Protocol for Diabetes
Control
To look into issues related to girls
education
For the speedy implementation of
the Sagarmala Project in Andhra Pradesh.
To monitor &review the functioning of
shell companies to prevent their misuse for
money laundering and tax-evasion
To frame final regulations on fortification
of foods and prepare strategies to address
malnutrition problem
To integrate and streamline the long and
complex process of defence acquisitions
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11 member Inter-disciplinary
Standing Committee on Cyber
Security
Name of the Committees
18 member panel
High level committee
3 member committee
Krishna River Management
Board (KRMB)
DB Shekatkar Committee
Inter-ministerial empowered
committee
Name of the Committees
Inter-Ministerial Monitoring-cum-
coordination Committee
Girdhar Malviya committee
Inter- Disciplinary Committee
Kewal Kumar Sharma
committee
Agricultural Produce Market
Committee
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RBI Executive Director Meena To review the threats emerging from the
Hemchandra. use of technology, study adoption of new
technology standards and suggest
appropriate policy interventions to
strengthen cyber security and resilience.
March
Chairpersons Committees working for
Partha Mukhopadhay To Suggests Legal Framework to Secure
the Rights of Migrants
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
Additional Director General To identify those Indian Revenue Service
(ADG) (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.
AK Bajaj To look into te Water sharing between
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
DB Shekatkar To reform the military financial
management
Rita Teaotia For sanctioning and monitoring of the
project TIES
April
Chairpersons Committees working for
To monitor the regional air connectivity
scheme UDAN
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
Dinesh Sharma To propose new regulations related
to digital currencies or virtual currencies
Kewal Kumar Sharma To review UGC recommendations on
7th Pay commission in educational institutes
Mr. Ashok Dalwai To establish a regulated wholesale agri-
market at a distance of every 80 km.
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Name of the Committees
Technical Committee - IBBI
High-level task force
Maa committee
Chitale Committee
Oversight committee - Reserve
Bank of India
Name of the Committees
MHA Panel
Panel on National Education Policy
Committee on Corporate
Governance
RBI Overseeing Committee
Name of the Committees
Four-member committee of BCCI
Nine member committee
GST Council panel
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May
Chairpersons Committees working for
Dr. R. B. Barman (Chairman, To lay down Technical Standards for the
National Statistical performance of core services and other
Commission). services
Arvind Panagariya To compute timely data on employment
situation in the country.
To check mid-day meal quality in UP
schools.
Madhav Chitale To recommends measures for desiltation of
river Ganga
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.
June
Chairpersons Committees working for
Special secretary (Internal To examine the rules which allows free
Security) in the Ministry of movement of Indian and Myanmarese
Home Affairs citizens within 16 kms of the border
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan To draft the National Education Policy
UdayKotak To improving the standards of corporate
governance of listed companies.
Pradeep Kumar To look at the stressed assets of the banking
sector.
July
Chairpersons Committees working for
CK Khanna To support staff of the Indian team and then
decide on the contracts that will be handed
to the coaches
Karnataka Gov To design a 'state' flag and submit a report
on giving it legal sanctity.
Pradeep Kumar Sinha To select National Anti-profiteering
Authority
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August
Name of the Committees Chairpersons Committees working for
AIFF’s Transfers Dispute Ushanath Banerjee Deal with the players’ transfer disputes’.
Committee

10 member panel Justice B.N Srikrishna The Ministry of Electronics and

High level committee
Parliamentary panel
RBI panel
Parliamentary Panel
Task Force on Artificial
Intelligence
29-member panel
Information Technology (MeitY)
appointed an expert panel committee that
would study various issues relating to data
protection
Justice B N Srikrishna to review the Institutionalization of
Arbitration Mechanism
RenukaChowdhury Genetically Modified (GM)crop should be
introduced only after biosafety, socio-
economic evaluation
TarunRamadorai Rights- based privacy
framework in household finance
B C Khanduri 100% pension to widow of deceased
soldiers
Dr. V. Kamakoti Artificial Intelligence (AI) for India’s
Economic Transformation.
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 Shekatkar Committee To enhance combat capability and
(CCS) rebalancing Defence Expenditure of the
Armed Forces

Name of the Committees
Economic Advisory Council
(EAC)
Empowered Steering Committee
(ESC)
Punjab government’s steering
committee
Hate speech on internet
IRDAI panel
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September
Chairpersons
Bibek Debroy
Based on the recommendations
of the interim report of the8-
member Task Force headed
by AbinavBindra
State chief secretary
T.K.Viswanathan
Dilip C Chakraborty
Committees working for
The EAC is an independent body that gives
advice on economic and related topics to
the Government, especially to the Prime
Minister
The committee will review the core
probable list of each High Priority and
Priority disciplines for Commonwealth
Games, Asian Games and Olympic Games
To monitor and coordinate the states drug
de-addiction and rehabilitation programme
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
To help in implementing the new risk-based
capital (RBC) regime and it will also
enhance protection to policyholders.
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NITI Aayog Expert Task Force on
Employment & Exports
Group of Ministers on the
implementation of GST.
Group of Ministers on the
implementation of GST.
Joint Parliamentary Committee
Appointments Committee of the
Cabinet
Cabinet Committee on Economic
Affairs (CCEA)
Cabinet Committee on Political
Affairs (CCPA)
Cabinet Committee on Security
(CCS)
Cabinet Committee on
Accommodation (CCA )
Cabinet Committee on
Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA)
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Dr.Rajiv Kumar
To provide a major thrust to job creation by
enhancing India’s exports.
Sushil Kumar Modi To monitor and resolve IT challenges faced
in implementation of Goods and Services
Tax (GST)
To look at the issues of export sector and to
Hasmukh Adhia recommend to the GST Council
Bhupender Yadav To examine and present a report on the
Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance
Bill, 2017
PM NarendraModi It is responsible for all appointments of
higher ranks in the Central Secretariat,
Public Enterprises, Public Enterprises and
Financial Institutions
PM NarendraModi It deals with the activities pertaining to the
economics of the country
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’
PM NarendraModi It is one of the most important committees
in India, it looks into the matters of defence
expenditures and National security
Rajnath Singh It is responsible for the allotment of
accommodation for various top positions in
the Government of India.
Rajnath Singh To look after the progress of government
business in the Parliament of India.
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