DayTodayGK has prepared a list of Important Committees In India. This is one of the major topics in General Awareness Category. We can expect one or two questions from this topic.
| Committee | Purpose |
| Abid Hussain Committee | Recommendations on Small scale industries |
| Agarwal Committee | Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections |
| Ajay Vikram Singh Committee | Faster promotions in Army |
| Alagh Committee | Civil Service Examinations |
| Anil Kaushal Committee | To examine the recommendations made by the TRAI on pricing of Spectrum. |
| Arvind Mayaram Committee | For giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII) |
| Arvind Mayaram Panel | Report on the alleged irregularities at the National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) |
| B. Sambamurthy Panel | Favors single mobile banking app on all SIMs. Panel recommended that customers should not be required to visit the bank branch for mobile number registration. |
| B. Shivraman Committee | Institutional Credit For Agricultural & Rural Development |
| Balwant Rai Mehta Committee | Recommendations on decentralization system |
| Bhandari Committee | Reconstruction of RRBs |
| Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee | Agriculture |
| Bimal Jalan Committee | To scrutinize applications for new bank licenses. |
| Boothalingam Committee | Recommendations on integrated wages, income and price policy. |
| Butler Committee | Relation between Indian states & paramount power |
| C Rangarajan Committee | Recommended the pricing of natural gas by a complex methodology of arriving at an average of International gas hub prices. |
| Chakravarti Committee | Banking sector reforms |
| Chelliah Committee | Eradicating black money |
| Chelliah Committee | Tax reforms |
| Damodran Committee | On improvement of customer services in banks |
| Deepak Parekh Committee | For Financing Infrastructure sector |
| G.V.Ramakrishna Committee | Disinvestment in PSU shares |
| Godbole Committee | Enron Power Project |
| H R Khan Panel | To evaluate unclaimed PPF and Post Office savings |
| Hari Gautam Committee | To review the status of UGC |
| Hilton-Young Commission | Recommended setting up of RBI. |
| Hurtog Committee | Growth of British India education -its effects |
| J.C.Kumarappa Committee | Congress agrarian Reforms Committee |
| Janaki Ram Committee | Security Scam |
| Janakiraman Committee | To investigate the security transactions of the bank |
| JS Mathur Committee | To revise Newspaper Advertisement Rates. |
| Justice A.P. Shah Committee | To head panel on Right to Privacy |
| Justice B.N.Kirpal Committee | 1st chairman National Forest Commission |
| Jyoti Basu Committee | Report on Octroi abolition. |
| K M Chandrasekhar Committee | For rationalization of foreign investment norms |
| K U.B. Rao Committee | Idea of setting up Bullion Bank or Bullion Corporation of India |
| K. Ratna Prabha | Committee on indecent depiction of women in media. |
| Kelkar Committee 1 | First committee on backward castes |
| Kelkar Committee 2 | Direct – Indirect Taxes |
| Kelkar Committee 3 | Enquiry on Kargil defense deals. |
| Khandelwal Committee | On HR issues of public sector banks. |
| Kirit Parikh Committee | On fuel pricing has suggested that the diesel prices should be increased by Rs 1‐1.50 a litre every month as against the 45‐50 paise monthly hike followed currently. |
| M P Bezbaruah Committee | To suggest suitable remedial measures to address concerns regarding the security of people from North East. |
| Malhotra Committee | Insurance Reforms |
| Mashelkar Committee | National Auto Fuel Policy |
| Mathur Committee | To examine the possibility of the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for reinvestigation of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases. |
| MBN Rao Committee | To prepare the blueprint of India’s first women’s bank |
| Muddiman Committee | Working of Diarchy as in Montague Chelmsford reforms |
| Mukul Mudgal Committee | To probe IPL spot‐fixing |
| Mukul Mudgal Committee | Looking into US giant Walmart’s lobbying activities to enter India |
| Nachiket Mor Committee | Comprehensive financial services for small businesses and low‐income households. |
| Narasimham Committee | Banking sector reforms |
| Narasimham Committee I (1991) Narasimham Committee II (1998) |
On Banking Sector Reforms. |
| Naresh Chandra Committee | 14 member task force on security issues |
| Naresh Chandra Committee | Corporate governance |
| Omkar Goswami Committee | Industrial sickness |
| P.C.Hotha Committee | Restructuring of civil services |
| Parthasarathi Shome Committee | Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC), Suggest a system to enforce better tax compliance |
| Pitroda Committee | To review the institutional framework of Prasar Bharti |
| PJ Nayak Committee | To review Governance of Boards of Banks in India. The committee was constituted under the chairmanship of P. J.Nayak. He is a former Chairman and CEO of Axis Bank. |
| R S Sharma Expert Committee | To Review the Companies (Cost Records and Audit) Rules 2014 |
| Rajindar Sachar Committee 2 | Report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslims of India. |
| Rajinder Sachar Committee 1 | Companies and MRPT Act |
| Ram Nandan Prasad Committee | Constitution of creamy layers among Backward Castes. |
| Ramanujam Committee | To identify obsolete laws |
| Rangarajan Committee | Reforms in private sector |
| Rangaraju Committee | Statistics |
| Rekhi Committee | Structure of indirect taxation |
| Saharya Committee | Tehelka tapes |
| Sawant Committee | Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers & Anna Hazare |
| Shri Aditya Puri Committee | Dissemination of Credit Information |
| Shri B. Mahapatra Committee | To review the existing prudential guidelines on restructuring of advances by banks/financial institutions |
| Shri M. Narasimham Committee | Banking Sector Reforms |
| Shri Pulak Kumar Sinha Committee | To study the feasibility of Aadhaar as an additional factor for authentication of card present transactions |
| Shri Pulak Kumar Sinha Committee | To study the feasibility of Aadhaar as an additional factor for authentication of card present transactions |
| Shri Raghuram Rajan Committee | Financial Sector Reforms, |
| Sivaramakrishnan Committee | To suggest a place to build the capital city of Andhra Pradesh |
| Subramanium Committee | To review environmental laws. |
| Suma Verma Committee | To update, and revise the Banking Ombudsman Scheme, 2006 |
| Suresh Prabhu Committee | To review gas pricing formula |
| Swaminathan Committee | Population policy |
| The All-India Rural Credit Survey Committee, 1951 | Recommending creation of a strong, integrated, state-sponsored, state-partnered commercial banking institution with an effective machinery of branches spread all over the country. |
| Urjit Patel Committee | Examine the current monetary policy framework |
| Vijay Kelkar Committee | Was appointed by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry to prepare a road map to make India self-sufficient in oil and natural gas by 2030. |
| Vishnu Sahay Committee | Probe into the Muzaffarnagar communal violence. |
| Vishwanathan committee | To provide Bankruptcy code for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) |
| Vohra Committee | Criminalization of politics |
| Wanchoo Committee | Tax enquiry |
| Wardha Committee | Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines |
| Yashpal Committee | Review of School Education system |
