List of Important Committees in India
| Committee Head | Constituted for |
|---|---|
| Palekar Tribunal | Journalists’ Pay reforms |
| U.C. Banerjee Commission | Enquiry into Godhra carnage (railways) |
| Sarkaria Commission | Centre-State relations |
| Srikrishna Commission | 1992 Bombay riots |
| Thakkar Commission | Indira Gandhi assassination case |
| Phukan Commission & Saharya Committee | Tehelka tapes |
| Malimath Commission | Criminal Justice |
| Upendra Commission | Inquiry on rape and murder Thangjam Manorama Devi |
| Malhotra Committee | Insurance Reforms |
| Janaki Ram Committee | Security scam |
| Ajay Vikram Singh Committee | Faster promotions in army |
| Rajinder Sachar Committee 1 | Companies and MRPT Act |
| Rajindar Sachar Committee 2 |
Report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslims of India |
| Jyoti Basu Committee | Report on Octroi abolition |
| Balwant Rai Mehta Committee | Recommendations on decentralization system |
| Sawant Committee |
Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers & Anna Hazare |
| Chelliah Committee | Eradicating black money |
| Kothari Commission | Educational reforms |
| Wanchoo Committee | Tax enquiry |
| Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee | Agriculture |
| Aggarwal Committee |
Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections |
| Rangarajan Committee | Reforms in private sector |
| Naresh Chandra Committee | Corporate governance |
| Chakravarti Committee | Banking sector reforms |
| Rekhi Committee | Structure of indirect taxation |
| G.V.Ramakrishna Committee | Disinvestment in PSU shares |
| Kelkar Committee | First committee on backward castes |
| P.C.Hotha Committee | Restructuring of civil services |
| Justice B.N.Kirpal Committee | 1st chairman National Forest Commission |
| Godbole Committee | Enron Power Project |
| J.C.Kumarappa Committee | Congress agrarian Reforms Committee |
| Swaminathan Committee | Population policy |
| Rangarajan Committee | Statistics |
| Wardha Committee | Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines |
| N.N. Vohra Committee | Criminalization of politics |
| Kelkar Committee | Direct-Indirect Taxes |
| Alagh Committee | Civil Service Examinations |
| Abid Hussain Committee | Recommendations on Small scale industries |
| Narasimham Committee | Banking sector reforms |
| Chelliah Committee | Tax reforms |
| Mashelkar Committee | National Auto Fuel Policy |
| Boothalingam Committee |
Recommendations on integrated wages, income and price policy |
| Omkar Goswami Committee | Industrial sickness |
| Yashpal Committee | Review of School Education system |
| Ram Nandan Prasad Committee | Constitution of creamy layers among Backward Castes |
| Kelkar Committee | Enquiry on Kargil defense deals. |
| M.M. Punchhi Commission |
Centre-State Relations [note- this committee has been set up recently- after the sad demise of Justice (Retd.) Sarkaria] |
| Thorat Committee | Caste-based discrimination against students in AIIMS |
| R.K.Raghavan Committee | Ragging in colleges |
| James Lyngdoh Committee | Student politics and student-body elections in colleges. |
| E.M.S. Nachiappan Committee | Reforms in the higher judiciary |
| Soli Sorabjee Committee |
Police Reforms [it was constituted after the Judgement of the Supreme Court in Parkash Singh vs Union of India (2006)] |
| Ganguli Committee |
Review of health facility planning and healthcare engineering and management |
| Percy Mistry Committee |
Making Mumbai an IFC (International Financial Centre) |
| K.T. Thomas Committee |
to look into ways of enhancing the effectives of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act |
| Fali S. Nariman Committee |
Accountability and damages with regard to destruction of public property |
| Satwant Reddy Committee |
review of laws relating to registration of pharmaceutical drugs and clinical trials |
| Raghuram C. Rajan Committee | financial sector reforms |
| Shah Commission | reorganisation of States |
| Tarkunde Committee |
composition of the Election Commission and other electoral reforms |
| Dinesh Goswami Committee | electoral reforms |
| G.V.K. Rao Committee |
set up by the planning commission in 1985, to look into the Administrative Arrangement for Rural Development and poverty Alleviation Programmes. |
| Butler Committee |
Relation between Indian states & paramount power (the Queen of Britain) |
| Hurtog Committee | Growth of British India education-its effects |
| Muddiman Committee | Working of Diarchy as in Montague Chelmsford reforms |
