GS - Committees Compilation (with Active Recalling) June 2025

Compilation of Committees and Best Practices

By Madhav Agarwal (AIR16, CSE24), Vipul Garg (IFS, CSE23)
(https://t.me/madhavagrawalair16)

Following are the questions for active recall:

💡 Why & What of Active Recalling? By turning committee lists into recall questions like ‘Which state has best tribal practices?’ or ‘Who worked on
PoSH?’, you train your brain to actively retrieve info—boosting memory far more than passive reading.

GS1 Committee Recall: Tribal (best prac of which state?), Women (for PoSH? for marriage & employ? for 50%? committee for manipur
reservation,), Minorities, C for land subsidence, Latest Pension reforms, can quote for credit/SHG?

Rank Recall:
GS1 Best Practice Recall: Women/TG realted..., Some radio... (usage where)

GS2 Committee Recall: PRI (2-3), Health (also for API), Corp Governance, CSR, Hate Speech, Prison Reforms (2 Quote?), NGO, HEI,
Education, Corruption, Criminalisaiton of politics, SHG/Credit, ADR Mechanism (known waali hai ek)
Electoral (Inner party demo? Audit of PP by CAG? mobile polling station? Curb on donations to PP?), Principles for
SHGs? Cooperative Federalism u/a 163, RPA Act Reforms (social media)

Rank Recall:
GS2 Best Practice Recall: Education, Ageing, Social ch/awareness, Hunger/malnutrition, Health, e-gov, Sports

GS3 Committee Recall: Tribal/Naxal, Manipur, Hate speech, Skilling, Infra bonds, CSR, MSME, direct tax, Agri (3-4), Key terms of Ashok
Dalwai, for fertilizer, for FCI reforms, for land related, Environment related (CC, coastal, WGs/biodiversity, overall
Env laws/service), Water related, Stubble burning, Mob lynching, Criminal justice system (+1 for prison reforms),
Border committees with key terms, Data protection, Microfinance, Disaster Mgmt (2-3), AI, Defence procurement,
Rank Recall: AFSPA, Cyber security, Full convertibility, Joshimath, Pension reforms, Criminal J system reforms, Road Safety,
Fisheries, Banking (BIC), UAVs/Drones, Pharma/API
GS3 Best Practice Recall: Agriculture best practices, Local community in conservation, Sports promotion

List of 2nd ARC Reports 1st for RTI, 4th for Ethics in Gov, 3rd 6th for Local Self Governance, 7th for Conflict resolution (Friction to Fusion),
11th for e-gov, 12th for Citizen centric admin

Name Recommendation GS themes where they can be

quoted
Xaxa Committee 2013 - Judicial Commission to look into the matters of Naxal Offences / Cases under Tribals, Naxal Security,
which many Tribals were arrested Cooperatives, FRA/PESA, PRI
- Recommended giving Mining Rights to the Tribal Cooperatives (follow model
by AP where TC used for marketing MFP)
- officials should be punished for delayed implementation of FRA/PESA 1999
- increasing the power of Gram Panchayat to check land acq, small sized water-
harvesting structures instead for large dams
- Health- Salunkhe Comm also, Mobile health services(Bike ambulance),
Tribal health council(+TH Assembly), Tribal members-health prac, sep
medical college
Jaya Jaitley Committee, 2020 - Age of marriage to 21 Age of motherhood, imperatives
- Ensuring skill and business training to girls of lowering MMR, improvement
- Recommended sex education in schools of nutritional levels, education,
women emp
Justice Verma Committee, 2012 - Recommended that an Employment Tribunal be set up because for in-house On Sexual Harassment of
ICC, women would be discouraged to complaint Women in Workplace
- Inclusion of Domestic Workers in the PoSH Act
Pam Rajput Committee, 2014 - Recommended 50 per cent reservation for women in all decision-making Women, W. Reservation, NCW,
bodies Gender implication of laws
- NCW (rep 50% popu) must go beyond ‘Reactive Interventions’ to fulfil the
proactive mandate of studying, recommending and influencing policies Manipur issue, IMR
- Parliamentary Committee on the Empowerment of Women must examine the
gender implications of all proposed legislation

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Sachar Committee, 2005 - Equal Opportunity Commission for grievances of minorities Secularism, Minorities,
- Link madrasas with higher secondary school boards Regionalism (relative deprivation)

Ethics case study

Bhore Committee - Health System should be based on Preventive Healthcare + UHC Health, Right to H (RJ)
Uday Kotak Committee, 2017 - 1 'Indep' women D in every listed company Corp Governance, Women
- Sep role of MD/CEO
- Min directors to 6 (for diversity)
TK Vishwanathan Committee Anti-cyber crime cells in each distt to curb online hate speech Hate speech, Security (cyber-
153C, 505A sections must be inserted in IPC crime), Manipur
Manishankar Aiyar Committee Highlighted decentralisation of corruption in PRI/ULB PRI
(Mani > money le jara gaon ki)
Justice Rohini Commission - 37% OBCs have 0 represenation Caste, Reservation
Electoral Reforms by 2nd ARC - Limit prescribed for the amount of donation that PP can accept Election, Elec Bonds, Audit,
- Audit of PPs by auditors recomm by CAG Germany (inter-party
- Inner party democracy be made compulsory by law reservation for women)
Indrajit Gupta Committee, 1999 Endorsed State Funding of Elections, in order to establish a fair playing field for Election (State Funding ki
parties with less money baarish - by Indra Dev)
Vohra Committee, 1993 On Criminalisation of Politics (unholy nexus between politicians, bureaucrats, Election (Criminalisation ka
criminals); establishment of a Nodal Cell in M/o Home Affairs to check nexus gadbad hora toh hai we need
Vohra) :p
Dinesh Goswami Committee - Mobile polling stations for weaker sections near residence Election, PwD, Old Age, Voting
rights, Accessible
Justice Amitava Roy (retd.) To examine the problems plaguing Indian Prisons Prison reforms. Police, Bail Law
Committee, 2018 - At least one lawyer for every 30 prisoners
- Fill vaccancies in prison dept
JAR Oscar Wilde said, it is not the prisoners that need reformation. It is the prisons;
Every sinner has a future
Vijay Kumar Committee, 2017 - “Light Regulation” for NGO NGO
- Registration procedures be modernised + Searchable database
- NITI Aayog as nodal body b/w NGO & govt
TSR Subramanian Committee, - Indian Education Service(IES) should be established Education, Nutrition
2016 - MDM programs should now be extended to cover students of secondary
school

Committee for Evolution of the New Education Policy (NEP)

Dr. K Kasturirangan Committee, developing a new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) Education
2017
R P Tiwari Committee, 2020 Suggesting multiple ways of transforming HEIs into Multi-Disciplinary Institutions Higher Education, NCF,
(rather than single stream); need one such HEI in every distt by 2030 Innovation
Sharda Prasad Committee, 2016 Report on Skill Councils Skilling
have a separate stream for vocational education within the secondary school
Maa sharda, S se skilling education setup; Creating vocational schools and colleges for upward mobility
Surjit S Bhalla Committee, 2019 recommended “Elephant Bonds” as a specialised security product providing Infrastructure, PPP
funds towards Long Term Infrastructure
Injeti Srinivas Committee, 2019 On Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - consider CSR as tax deduction; CSR, Corporate gov, Env, SDG
CSR activity schedule aligned with SDGs, Introducing impact assessment
studies for CSR obligations of ₹5 crore or more
U K Sinha Panel Form a Rs.5000 crore stressed asset fund for MSMEs Economy
Waive PSL norms for banks that wish to specialise in MSME Lending
Factoring for MSMEs to handle liquidity crisis (suggested by ES-22)
Akhilesh Ranjan Task Force, 2019 On Direct Tax Code Economy
Increasing the limit for opening cases
Use AI in the tax-compliance and administration process

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Ashok Dalwai Committee, 2019 Sustaining Income growth through 5 pillars: (CROPS) Agriculture (RUE for climate
➢ Increasing productivity as a route to higher production. smart/irrigation)
➢ Reduced cost of production / cultivation.
➢ Optimal monetisation of the produce. Marketing
➢ Sustainable production technology.
➢ Risk negotiation all along the agricultural value chain. Transport

Other terms: Empowering Farmers through Agricultural Extension & knowledge

diffusion; Effective Input Management achieving Resource-Use-Efficiency P-CSR ka diagram banao
(RUE) and Total Factor Productivity (TFP); Demand Driven Agricultural Logistics
System for post-production operations;

Developing Hub and Spoke System at back-end as well as front-end to

facilitate and promote a new market architecture

Marketing Intelligence System to provide demand led decision making support

system
Shanta Kumar Committee - Total end to end computerization of the entire food management system Agriculture (FCI, PDS, Fertilizer)
- Relook at the current coverage of 67 percent of population
- Central issue prices being frozen for three years
- FCI to hand over all procurement operations of wheat, paddy and rice to States
- Stop bonuses on MSP
- Deregulate fertilizer sector and provide cash fertiliser subsidy of Rs 7,000
per hectare to farmers (also PM PRANAM)
Beekeeping Development Recognizing Honeybees as inputs to Agriculture and considering landless Agriculture
Committee 2019 Beekeepers as farmers

T Haque Committee Legalisation of land leasing will result in availability of more land which the Agriculture, Land Leasing
landless and marginal farmers can lease in this will help improve their economic
condition

Provision of “Special Land Tribunal”

Kelkar Committee, 2015 PPP Reforms Economy, Funding
Renegotiation setup for facilitation; Independent Regulator; PPP should only
be used for large projects; Provide for monetisation of completed projects
AJ Paulraj Committee 5G; Economic impact of 5G is expected to be over $1 trillion S&T, DPI
Anil Kakodkar Committee, 2012 Creation of a statutory Railway Safety Authority with enough powers to have Infrastructure, Train accident
a safety oversight (indep mechanism) Balasore
Madhav Gadgil Committee M. Gadgil was the chairman of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel Environment, Biodiversity,
(WGEEP); 2011 Report proposed: 64% area as ESA to which none of the govt. Disaster Mgmt/Land Slide
agreed
Kasturirangan Committee report proposed 37% of total area of Western Ghats as ESA Environment, Landslide
2014
Shailesh Nayak Committee, 2014 Examining the issues of the coastal states and union territories with respect to Environment, Coastal
the Coastal Regulation Zone

High-level inter-ministerial Apex Apex Committee for Implementation of Paris Agreement (for coordinated Environment
Committee, 2020 (IMAC) response to CC)
Ravi Chopra Committee Dam building in Himalayas, etc (23 out 24 rejected) Environment, Disaster Mgmt
Mihir Shah Committee, 2016 National Water Commission (NWC) has been proposed which will subsume Environment (Augmentation,
CWC and CGWB conservation and efficient
management of water resources)
Focus on river basins which must form the fundamental units for
Water stress, Water dispute
View groundwater and surface water in an integrated, holistic manner

Water under concurrent list

Justice Madan B Lokur Committee Physical surveillance of fields to check stubble burning (side note: also use bio Agriculture/Env
decomposer)
Rajiv Gauba Committee, 2018 On the issue of Mob lynching and fake news; SP in each District as the nodal Security, Social Media, Manipur
officer; ensure that social media platforms do not become a means for
spreading rumours
Malimath Committee On Criminal Justice System Security
Shekatkar Committee, 2016 On Border Infrastructure via EPC model; Socio-eco dev in borders Security (Border, Vibrant Village)

Outsourcing road construction work beyond optimal capacity of BRO; Use

EPC for more than 100 crore projects

Recommendations were related to speeding up road construction, leading to

socio economic

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Standing Committee on Home - Fencing in the Thar Desert region had proved to be ineffective because of the Security, Border, Terrorism, Drug
Affairs, 2016: Border Security shifting sand dunes; BG border fencing slow trafficking
- Notification be re-issued to revive the National Centre for Counter Terrorism
(NCCT) as the nodal counter-terrorism agency (as currently NIA, IB, NSG not Sand Dune (geography)
under single unified)
Malegaon Committee Microfinance, SHGs, fix the interest rate cap for loans SHG, Finance

Quotes: Unity of voice to unity of purpose (minority, SJ, Essay) Side Note: Follow five cardinal
principles or Panchsutra (regular
meetings, regular savings,
internal lending, regular
repayment and bookkeeping)
Santhanam Committee Report Referred to political corruption as more dangerous than corruption of officials Criminalization of Politics,
and recommended for Vigalance Commission both at the Centre and in the Corruption Ethics
States

Establishment of CVC
NCRWC Management of disasters and emergencies should be included in the DM. 7th schedule
Concurrent List of the Seventh Schedule
Ramanujam Committee Identified around 1,700 old statutes that were ready for repeal Legislation, EoDB
K.V. Kamath Committee Graded approach to restructuring of stressed accounts based on severity of on Restructuring of corporate
the impact on the borrowers- Banks can classify the accounts into mild, Loans, Bad Bank
moderate and severe (MMS) as recommended by the committee
Swaminathan Committee - National Water: Water literacy movt, pani panchayat in every village Agriculture, Environment, Animal
Commission for farmers Husbandry
Establish Livestock Feed and Fodder Corporations at the State Level

Fisheries: Artificial coral reefs to revive fish catch; Quality literacy to safeguard
harvested fish;

Justice BN Srikrishna Committee • Data Protection Framework (data of ppl, by ppl, for ppl) Data Protection, cyber security,
Report on Data Protection • Individual will have right to withdraw consent DPI
• All firms and agencies will have to appoint data protection officers
V Kamakoti Panel Setting up National Artificial Intelligence Mission (N-AIM) on Artificial Intelligence, data
protection
Data ombudsman for data related issues
Dhirendra Singh Committee Emphasis on Greater Indigenisation of Defence of procurement; and HRD Defence Procurement Procedure
Jeevan Reddy Committee Repeal AFSPA and insert prov in UAPA AFSPA, Regionalism
Greivance cells in each distt
Madhukar Gupta Committee Indo-Pak border: separate recommendations for four states as each of them has
different topography and problems

Suggested use of technology and heightened vigil on riverine frontiers

CIBMS lagao
Kargil Review Committee CDS post; Strengthen border infra
Justice Gita Mittal Committee To oversee relief and rehabilitation of victims of violence in Manipur
(Manipur ke log Gita ka sandesh
bhule)
Gulshan Rai Committee Establish a separate agency for online cybercrime regulation
Reduce Government’s dependence on foreign servers
(log Gulshan ban ja rhe hain net Set up Cyber Forensic labs
pe)
Tarapore cmt Setting preconditions for Full convertibility as per FD, NPA, Inflation under Internationalisation of Rupee,
control Dollarisation
K Radhakrishnan Cmt Off shore campus, international quality faculty, STEM focus Higher Education, IIT Madras
(Zanzibar, Tanzania), S&T Edu
Mahesh Chandra Mishra Almost 50 years ago, the Centre had appointed MC Mishra, the then collector of DM, Landslide
Committee Garhwal, to look into why Joshimath was sinking; Recommended restrictions
be placed on heavy construction work
N C Saxena Review cmt Increase tribal representation in Forest Rights Committees (FRCs) Tribal
Somanathan cmt Pension reforms Old vs New

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Justice Malimath Cmt underlined the need for ADR mechanisms as a viable alternative to CJS reforms, ADR (judiciary),
conventional court litigation Security Police, Judiciary

Shortening vacation of judges; Victim Compensation Fund, Schedule for the

Code to be published in all regional languages so that the accused is aware of
his or her rights.

Inquisitorial court system (where court/judge is not a passive recipient of

information rather works actively in investigation)
PK Mishra Task Force Restructure NDMA, dissolve NEC, Inc financial resources Disaster Mgmt
(Mishra Brothers)
NCRWC/Venkatachaliah Individual and Collective consultation with the states should be undertaken
Commission through Article 263 (Inter State Council) for cooperative federalism
Sumit Bose Committee Full time secretary at PRI, regular GS meetings, ICT usage, monitoring PRI
performance
Umesh Sinha Committee 1. Social media platforms should work with the EC... Election & social media usage,
2. Election period silence of 48hrs should be extended to cover print and Section 126A of RPA
social media
Sunder Committee on Road Safety 1. Earmarking of 1% of total proceeds of cess on diesel and petrol for Road Infra, Road Safety
(Road Sunder banao) Safety Fund
2. Creation of the National Road Safety & Traffic Management Board
Meena Kumari Committee 1. Diversify fishing using deep buffer zones and development of technology to Fisheries
exploit water beyond 500 meters
(Meen = fishes) 2. Squid fishing to be increased.

PJ Nayak Committee To create a Bank Investment Company (BIC) to transfer all shares of PSBs Banking, Opitonal
held by GoI to BIC for better management of PSBs
TSR Subramaniam Committee on 1. New Umbrella Law by summing Envt laws
Environment 2. National Envt Management Authority
3. All India Environment Service
4. Review six major environmental laws
Jayant Sinha Task Force Constituted a task force to prepare road map and fast-track implementation of Drones, UAV, Drone Regulation
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology or drones in the country. 2.0
Katoch Committee Setting up of mega parks for API or Bulk drugs manufacturing; Boosting R&D Health, Pharma Industry
(API imports Kat Kr do) via greater tax benefits

Best Practices (NITI Aayog) Best Practices GS themes where they can be
quoted
Climate Resilient Rice – Fish Organic fertilization by fish excreta; Encouraging pisciculture in the paddy fields Agriculture, Env, Income boost,
Farming in Assam of Assam; increases the income without increasing expenses; reduction in labor CC
in weeding
Organic Large Cardamom Producing and developing a value chain for organic large cardamom Agriculture, FPC, income via
Production-An initiative of Farmers higher value crop
Producer Company in Nagaland
School Adoption Initiative, Darrang one college teacher adopted one school in the district of Darrang, Assam Education, Schools, Ethics,
(Assam) with the aim of improving teaching and learning practices Essay
Project Second Innings Retired teachers voluntarily sign-up for teaching primary and upper primary Education, Ageing
classes in Dahod (GJ)
Ganga Prahari - Guardians Of The Trained cadre of local communities Environment, rivers, community
Ganga role
Dhimsa Radio - Transmitting Social disseminating information on government schemes; platform to the rural Social change, governance,
Change In Koraput Odhisha residents to air their grievances and local artistes to showcase their talent; Do Covid, awareness, promotion of
and dont's during COVID local artistes (A&C), use of tech
Mera Baccha Abhiyan in Datia Suposhan Mela; Poshan Clubs; achieved 100 % breastfeeding under this Malnutrition, Hunger case study
(MP) initiative
eSanjeevani OPD Improving Tele-Medicine Service In Khunti distt of JH Health
Akanksha, Government of An integrated online platform for SDG and CSR alignment by Karnataka Govt e-governance
Karnataka
Kutumba, Government of IT-based platform for improving ease of access to government benefits to the e-governance
Karnataka poor, bringing about inclusive growth; fully automated beneficiary eligibility and
entitlement identification process
Navchetna Bakery - Livelihood run exclusively by women who were trafficked and rescued, and members of Women, PwD, TG, Naxal
Generation transgender and differently abled community (Dantewada CG)
Sports Excellence through “Khelo Sports acted as an antidote for a lot of societal evils such as substance abuse; Security, Sports
India” Scheme, Churu Churu as a cradle for the armed forces; Allows athletes to stay on site and be in
continuous contact with their coach

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