Other Important Committee
Other Important Committee
1 Indian Economy
PK Mohanty Committee: RBI proposals to shore up bank
boards.
KV Kamath Committee: Assess Covid related impact on bad
loans.
RBI committee:
RBI Deputy Governor Anand Sinha reported upon Pricing of
Credit. Bringing a benchmark floating interest rate, especially
for home loans.
HR Khan Committee:
1. proposed that banks should be allowed to pledge
corporate bonds as collateral to borrow funds from the
Reserve Bank’s overnight repo window.
2. RBI allows only government securities till now.
3. Proposed adoption of Blockchain Technology in banks.
3 Fiscal Issues
N.K. Singh committee: To review the FRBM Act, 2003.
1. Growing trend of off-budget spending.
2. Reduce fiscal deficit to less that 2% by 2022. Current
2.5%.
3. Reduce total government debt to 60%. 20% for states and
40% for centre.
Arvind Mayaram committee: to rationalize the definitions of
FII and FDI.
4 AGRICULTURE
Ashok Dalwai Committee: Reforms needed to double
farmer's incomes.
1. Relaxation of ExIm norms.
2. Pledge funds.
3. Upgradation of silos.
4. Negotiable warehouse receipts.
Arvind Subramanian Committee:
1. to tackle the shortage of pulses in India.
2. Recommended hike in MSP and Bonus on Pulses
production.
MS Swaminathan Committee: National Commission on
Farmers.
1. Assurance of basic resources.
2. Agriculture in concurrent list.
3. Prevention of diversion of agri land for non-agri uses.
4. Access to common property resources.
5. State level farmer's commission with farmers
representatives.
6. APMCs should serve an area of 80 km2. (Currently at 496
km2)
5 Food Security
Shanta Kumar Committee: High level committee on food
security. Look into restructuring of FCI.
Dharia committee: PDS refoms.
6 Railways
Bibek Debroy Committee: On mobilisation of resources for
major railway projects and restructuring of Rail Min. Rail
Development Authority.
Anil Kakodkar Committee: Railway reforms including safety,
organisation, Signalling, comms., HRD, education and training,
ecosystem concern, etc. Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh. Non
lapsable fund.
7 Investment Models
Kelkar Committee: on PPP restructuring.
8 Technology
Kris Gopalkrishnan Committee: On non-personal data. Three
major categories defined:
1. Public: census, SRS, NFHS.
2. Private: collected by proprietary software, generated by
individuals.
3. Community: from people living in a particular area.Also
suggested norms for data harvesting.
A.K Bhargava Committee: Net Neutrality.
Justice Shri Krishna Committee: on data protection bill.
1. Consent.
2. Correction.
3. Portability.
4. Right to be forgotten.
Amitabh Kant Committee:
1. Identifying various bottlenecks affecting access to digital
payments.
2. Review e-commerce rules.
Ratan Watal Committee: Review existing payment system in
the country and recommend for measures for more use of
digital payments.
1. BPSS (Board of payment and settlement system): Amend
PSS act 2007.
2. promote digital payment: providing incentives.
3. DIPAYAN: DIgital PAYment Action Network
9 Environment
Shailesh Nayak Committee: Review the Issues relating to the
Coastal Regulation Zone.
Anupam Varma Committee: Banning the use of 18 hazardous
Chitale committee: On desiltation of Ganga.
10 Internal Security
Biplab Kumar Sarma Committee: Look into implementation of
the Assam Accords.
11 Border Management
Madhukar Gupta committee: on Indo Pak border. CIBMS on
borders
12 Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections
Justice Rohini Singh Committee: OBC subcategorization.