Most Important Committees in News

Important Committees in News:

1. K.V. Kamath panel: to examine the financial architecture for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector.

2. Gopalakrishna Committee: on Capacity Building in Banks and non-Banks

3. G N Bajpai Committee: to review the investment guidelines for national pension system (NPS) schemes in private sector.

4. Scientist Raghunath Anant Mashelkar panel: to recommend best technologies for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Swachh
Bharat" national sanitation campaign.

Note: The terms of reference include achieving Prime Minister Modi's "Swachh Bharat" goals by 2019,

5. T S R Subramanian Committee: to review five key green laws concerning protection and conservation of environment,
forest, wildlife, water and air among others.

6. H R Khan Committee: to examine the un-claimed amount in PPF, Post Office and Savings Schemes.

7. H Devaraj Committee: reported that most of the deemed universities are not fit for being a university.

8. Sivaramakrishnan Committee: to suggest the place to build the capital city of Andhra Pradesh

9. Former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan to head the Expenditure Management Commission. The purpose of setting up the
commission is to cut-off the spending and review government expenditure to get maximum output.

10. Justice CS Dharmadhikari Committee: recommended complete ban on dance bars in hotels and restaurants .

11. R. Ramanujam Committee - to review, identify and recommend
amendment in obsolete laws to further smoothen and simplify
the governance.

12. R.K. Singh Committee: to review parliament security

13. Hari Gautam Committee: to review present status of University
Grant Commission

14. G. Padmanabhan Committee: implementation of Bharat Bill Payment System (BPPS)

15. Nachiket Mor committee: for small and payments bank

16. Nachiket Mor Committee: to permits NBFCs to work as Business Correspondents of banks.

17. Deepak Mohanty Committee: on Data and Information Management in the Reserve Bank of India

18. PJ Nayak: to review Governance of Boards of Banks in India.

19. M P Bezbaruah: to suggest suitable remedial measures to address concerns regarding security of people from North East.

20. B. Sambamurthy: panel favours single mobile banking app on all SIMs. Panel recommended that customers should not be
required to visit the bank branch for mobile number registration.

21. Urjit Patel Committee - to examine the current monetary policy framework

22. Mukul Mudgal member panel to probe IPL spot-fixing

23. Nachiket Mor - committee on comprehensive financial services for small businesses and low-income households.

24. Bimal Jalan panel : to scrutinize applications for new bank licenses.

25. Parthasarathi Shome. – for Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC)

26. Arvind Mayaram Panel: report on the alleged irregularities at the National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL)

27. Arvind Mayaram Committee –for giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional
Investment (FII)