GENERAL QUESTIONS ON COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS, TRIBUNALS
Q1. What was the Committee formed to review and report on Army Personnel Pay Scales?
Ajit Kumar Committee.
Q2. The Committee that was formed to restructure the Industrial Development Bank of India is...
Athreya Committee.
Q3. What was the named of the Committee that was formed to increase the Motor Vehicle Tax?
Bhurelal Committee.
Q4. What was the committee formed to study the working conditions of Air Traffic Controllers?
Bhimal Jhulka Committee
Q5. Which Committee was appointed to suggest reforms in Ship Act 1908 and Ship Trust Act 1963?
C.Babu Rajiv Committee.
Q6. Which committee was formed to study and report on pension for unorganised sector?
Dave Committee
Q7. MICR - Magnetic Ink Character Recognition - is a popular term in Banking terminologies. Which Committee was appointed to study and report on the introduction of MICR in banks?
Damle Committee.
Q8. What is the name of the committee formed in the matter of "Lead Banking System"?
Gadgil Committee.
Q9. What is the committee formed for a report on eradication of black money?
Chelliah Committee
Q10. Dinesh Goswami Committee was apointed for .....
Electoral Reforms.
Q11. E M S Nachiappan Committee was appointed for .....
Reforms in higher judiciary.
Q12. Fali S Nariman Committee was entrusted with the reporting of ......
Accountability and damages to public property.
Q13. Godbole Committee was appointed to review and report in the matter of .....
Q14. Which committee was appointed to study and report in the matter of disinvestments of Public Sector Undertaking shares?
G V Ramakrishna Committee
Q15. Which committee was appointed to report on the ways and means of disposing soild bank notes?
Hathi Committee.
Q16. Hurtog Committee during British period was meant for ......
Growth of British India education and its effects.
Q17. Which Committee was appointed to study and report in the matter of "Security Scams"?
Janakiraman Committee.
Q18. James Lyngdoh Committee was appointed to study and report in the matter of ?
Student politics and student committee elections in colleges and universities.
Q19. Which committee was appointed recently in 2013 to report in the matter of sexual harassment of women?
Justice Verma Committee.
Q20. Jyoti Basu Committee was appointed for reporting in the matter of ?
Abolition of Octroi.
Q21. Which Committee was appointed in the matter of Educational Loan Scheme?
Kamath Committee.
Q22. Which Committee was appointed to inquire into the Kargil Defense Deals?
Kelkar Committee.
Q23. Which committee was appointed to report on the issue of banking reforms?
Narasimhan Committee
Q24. Which committee was appointed for restructuring the Civil Services?
P C Hotha Committee.
Q25. P Selvam Committee was appointed to look into the issue of ?
Non Performing Assets of banks.
Q26. Percy Mistry Committee was responsible for reporting on the matter of ....
Making Mumbai an International Financial Centre.
Q27. Which Committee was appointed to study report in the matter of pay scales of Bank Officers?
Pillai Committee.
Q28. Raghavan Committee was appointed to report on the issue of ....
Competition Laws.
Q29. Which committee was appointed to study the economic, social and educational status of Indian Muslims?
Rajinder Sachaar Committee.
Q30. Ram Niwas Mirdha Committee probed and reported on the matter of .....
Security Scams.
Q31. Which committee was appointed to study and report on the matter of ragging in colleges?
R K Raghavan Committee.
Q32. R N Malhotra Committee was responsible for reporting on the matter of .....
Insurance Sector Reforms.
Q33. Saharya Committee was appointed to look into the matter of ......
Tehelka Tapes.
Q34. Soli Sorabjee Committee was responsible for reporting on the matter of .....
Police Reforms.
Q35. Which Committee was appointed in the matter of Telengana?
Sri Krishna Committee.
Q36. Which committee was appointed to inquire into the murder of Graham Staines?
Wardha Committee.
Q37. Yashpal Committee was responsible for reporting on the matter of ...
School Education System.
Q38. Based on which committee's report seven associate banks were merged with State Bank of India?
McKinsey Report.
Q39. Who headed the Indian Hemp (marijuana) Drugs Commission of 1893?
W.Mackworth Young.
Q40. Radcliffe (Sir Cyril Radcliffe) Commission of August 1947 was meant for ....
Demarcating the boundaries between India and Pakistan.
Q41. Who headed the Sadler Commission of 1917..1919 appointed in the matter of Indian Education?
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler.
Q42. Simon Commission, headed by Sir John Simon, arrived in India in 1927 for ......
To study constitutional reforms in India.
Q43. Who was that member of the Simon Commission of 1927, later to become PM of Britain and grant independence to India?
Sir Clement Atlee
Q44. Name the famous freedom fighter who was grievously injured and died later, while protesting against the Simon Commission in Lahore?
Lala Lajpat Rai, died on 17th November 1928.
Q45. Hunter Commission, headed by Lord William Hunter, of 1919, was appointed to inquire into....
Jalianwala Bagh Massacre and violence in Bombay and Delhi.
Q46. Who headed the Famine Commission of 1878..1880 ?
Sir Richard Strachey.
Q47. When was the first Administrative Reforms Commission appointed and who headed the same?
5.1.1966 headed by Morarji Desai and later by Hanumanthappa.
Q48. Who headed the Second Administrative Reforms Commission that was appointed on 31.8.2005?
Veerappa Moily.
Q49. When was the Atomic Energy Commission set up?
August 1948.
Q50. Who was the first Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission?
Homi J Bhabha ... 1948...1966.
Q51. When was the Central Vigilance Commission established?
February 1964.
Q52. Central Vigilance Commission was established on the recommendations of .......
K. Santhanam Committee report on "Prevention of Corruption".
Q53. Who was the first Chief Vigilance Commissioner?
Nittoor Srinivasa Rao.
Q54. Where is the Central Vigilance Commission headquartered?
New Delhi.
Q55. Commission of Railway Safety functions under the Ministry of ......
Civil Aviation
Q56. Commission of Railway Safety was established under the provisions of ......
Indian Railways Act, 1869.
Q57. Where is the Commission of Railway Safety headquartered?
Lucknow.
Q58. Central Water Commission was originally established in the year .....
1944
Q59. Whenfrom the Central Water Commission started functioning independently as such, under the Ministry of Water Resources?
1974
Q60. Whenfrom the Central Electricity Authority was established?
1974
Q61. When was the Competition Commission of India established?
May 2009 under Competition Act 2002.
Q62. When was the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission established?
24th July 1998.
Q63. Who was the first chairman of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission?
S L Rao.
Q64. Under which Ministry the Central Electricity Commission is functioning?
Ministry of Power.
Q65. Under which Article of the Constitution, the Central Administrative Tribunal was established?
Article 323 A.
Q66. When was the Administrative Tribunals Act enacted?
Q67. In which year the Central Administrative Tribunal and benches were established?
1985
Q68. When was the Delimitation Commission first established?
1952
Q69. How many times the Delimitation Commission has so far been established?
Four times .. 1952, 1963, 1973, and 2002.
Q70. Who headed the fourth Delimitation Commission established in 2002?
Justice Kuldip Singh
Q71. Which was the first state to use Delimitation Commission 2002 recommendations?
Karnataka in its 2002 Assembly elections.
Q72. Under which Article of the Constitution, the Election Commission was established?
Article 324 of the Constitution.
Q73. Whenfrom the Election Commission was established?
25.1.1950
Q74. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Sukumar Sen ... 1950 .. 1958.
Q75. What is the tenure of the Election Commissioners?
6 Yrs or 65 years of age, whichever is earlier.
Q76. From which the Election Commission has been provided with three Election Commissioners?
1.10.1993
Q77. The Services of the Election Commissioners are governed by ......
Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1992.
Q78. Where is the Election Commission headquartered ?
New Delhi (Nirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road)
Q79. Under which Article of the Constitution, the Finance Commission was established?
Article 280.
Q80. When was the Finance Commission first established?
22nd November 1951.
Q81. The Finance Commission is appointed for ...
Q82. The tenure of the Finance Commissioner is .....
Five Years
Q83. Who was the first Finance Commissioner of India?
K C Neogi ... 1952 .. 1957
Q84. Who is the 13th Finance Commissioner of India?
Vijay Kelkar.
Q85. Who is designated to take over the 14th Finance Commission from 2015?
Dr Y V Reddy
Q86. The Finance Commission is mainly intended to .....
Define the financial relations between the Centre and the States.
Q87. Functioning of the Finance Commission is regulated by .....
Finance Commission (Miscelleaneous Provisions) Act of 1951.
Q88. Where is the Finance Commission headquartered?
New Delhi (Jawahar Vyapar Bhawan, Tolstoy Marg)
Q89. When was the Forward Markets Commission established?
1953
Q90. Where is the Forward Markets Commission headquartered?
Mumbai.
Q91. When was the Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO established?
March 1949.
Q92. What are the recent activities of the Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO, in the year 2012/13?
Celebration of the 150th year anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda.
Q93. Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO functions under the Ministry of?
Human Resources Development.
Q94. When was the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission established?
1945 under the Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Act of 1940.
Q95. Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission functions under the Ministry of ...........
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Q96. When was the Investment Commission established?
December 2004.
Q97. Who is the Chairman of the Investment Commission of India?
Mr.Ratan Tata.
Q98. When was the first Backward Classes Commission established ?
1953 ... Kaka Kalelkar Commission.
Q99. Kapur Commission, a one man commission, was appointed in 1966, to inquire into?
Conspiracy in the murder of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Q100. Who headed the Kapur Commission which enquired into the death of Mahatma Gandhi?
Justice Jivan Lal Kapur.
Q101. Kothari Commission, headed by Prof.D.S.Kothari, (former Chairman of University Grants Commission) was appointed for the purpose of ?
To review and report on the educational system in India.
Q102. What is the name of the Commission appointed for enquiry and report on the Babri Masjid Demolition incident .. 6th December 1992?
Justice Liberhan (M S Liberhan) Commission appointed on 16th December 1992.
Q103. When was the Mandal Commission established?
1979 by the Janata Government under Morarji Desai.
Q104. Who headed the Mandal Commission?
Bindeshwari Prasad Manda, a Member of Parliament.
Q105. Mandal Commission was established for the purpose of ?
Identifying social and educationally backward communities.
Q106. Justice M M Punchhi Commission which commission that was appointed to report on the Centre State relationship?
Sarkaria Commission.
Q107. Which commission was set up to review and report on the criminal justice system in our country?
Malimath Commission headed by Justice V S Malimath.
Q108. What is the notable outcome of the Malimath Commission Report?
Prison reforms.
Q109. How many commissions/committees were appointed to enquire and report on the disappearance/death of Nethaji Subash Chandra Bose?
Three ... Shah Nawaz Committee (1956)., Justice G D Khosla Commission (1970) and Justice Manoj Mukherjee Commission (1999).
Q110. Which commission was appointed in 2000, to probe into the Sikh riots in Delhi in 1984, an aftermath of Smt.Indira Gandhi's assassination?
Justice (G T) Nanavati Commission.
Q111. When was the National Commission for Backward Classes established?
14th August 1993.
Q112. National Commission for Backward Classes was established on the backdrop of a judgement by Supreme Court in the case of ....
Mandal Case.
Q113. The tenure of the Chairman and Members of the National Commission for Backward Classes is .....
Three years.
Q114. When was the National Commission for Denotified Nomadic & Semi Nomadic Tribes established?
22.11.2003 and reconstituted on 16.3.2005.
Q115. National Commission for Minorities was established under the ....
National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.
Q116. National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions was set up under the ....
National Commission for Minorities Education Institutions Act, 1994.
Q117. National Commission for Protection of Child Rights was set up under the .....
Child Rights Act 2005.
Q118. National Commission for Protection of child Rights started functioning from .....
Q119. Under which Commission's report, National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities was established?
Ranganath Misra Commission.
Q120. In which year the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities was set up?
2004 (29th October)
Q121. Under which Constitutional provision the National Green Tribunal was established?
Article 21 .. Right to healthy environment.
Q122. From which year National Green Tribunal started functioning?
2010 .. Immediately after the enactment of the National Green Tribunal Act., 2010.
Q123. As of February 2013, the National Green Tribunal benches are functioning at......
Bhopal, Chennai, Kolkatta and Pune. More places are under consideration.
Q124. Besides the Nanavati Commission, there was another commission to probe and report in the matter of Sikh riots of 1984, in New Delhi, after the assassination of Smt. Indira Gandhi. What was it?
Justice Ranganath Misra Commission of May 1985.
Q125. When was the National Commission for Safai Karmcharis established?
1994 and its tenure was for three years.
Q126. When was the National Commission for Scheduled Castes established?
Originally in August 1978 as a commission for both SC and STs. After the 89th Amendment of the Constitution, it became a separate identity from 2003. (The same thing goes for National Commission for STs.)
Q127. Who was the first Chairman for the National Commission for Scheduled Castes?
Suraj Bahn.
Q128. Who was the first Chairman for the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes?
Kunwar Singh.
Q129. In which year the National Commission for Women was established?
Q130. When was the National Commission on Farmers was established and who heads the same?
2004 ... Prof. M S Swaminathan.
Q131. When was the first National Commission on Labour set up?
December 1966 with Justice Gajendragadkar as its chairman.
Q132. When was the National Human Rights Commission established?
September 1993.
Q133. Who was the first Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission?
Justice Ranganath Misra.
Q134. When was the National Knowledge Commission set up?
13.6.2005 by PM Dr.Manmohan Singh.
Q135. Nationala Statistical Commission was set up in July 2006 based on the recommendations of ...
C.Rangarajan Committee.
Q136. How many Pay Commissions have so far been set up for Central Government Employees?
Six
Q137. Who was the Chairman of the First Pay Commission of 1946?
Srinivasa Varadachariar.
Q138. Who was the Chairman of the Second Pay Commission of 1957?
Jagannath Das.
Q139. Who was the Chairman of the Third Pay Commission of 1973?
Raghubir Dayal.
Q140. Who was the Chairman of the Fourth Pay Commission of 1983?
P N Singhal
Q141. Who was the Chairman of the Fifth Pay Commission of 1994?
Justice S Ratnavel Pandian.
Q142. Who was the Chairman of the Sixth Pay Commision of 2006?
Justice B N Srikrishna.
Q143. When was the Planning Commission established?
15th March 1950.
Q144. Who is the chairman of the Planning Commission as an administrative arrangement?
Prime Minister is the ex officio chairman.
Q145. As of 2012, how many five year plans have been drawn?
Eleven.
Q146. What is a River Water Tribunal?
A tribunal formed to arrive at a satisfying water sharing arrangement between two riparian states of a river.
Q147. River Water Tribunals are established on the basis of ....
River Water Disputes Act of 1956.
Q148. What was the first commission set up to report in centre state relationships?
Sarkaria Commission .. 1983 .. Headed by Justice Rajinder Singh Sarkaria.
Q149. Which commission was set up to demarcate the boundaries of Punjab and Haryana during its bifurcation in 1966?
J C Shah Commission -- The commission is also known as the Second States Reorganization Commission.
Q150. Which Commission was appointed to inquire into the Godhra incident of 2002?
Shah Nanavati Commission .. First High Court Judge Shah was appointed, then he was replaced by Justice Nanavati. That is why it is called as Shah Nanavati Commission.
Q151. When was the Staff Selection Commission established?
4th November 1975.
Q152. Initially how was the Staff Selection Commission known?
Subordinate Services Commission. Later to be renamed as Staff Selection Commission from 26th September 1977.
Q153. When was the States Reorganization Commission formed?
1953
Q154. Who was the Chairman of the States Reorganization Commission?
Fazal Ali (with two members ... Kavalam Madhava Panikkar and H N Kunzru).
Q155. The States Reorganization Commission recommended for the formation of ......
16 states and 3 Union Territories.
Q156. Union Public Service Commission was formed under .....
Articles 315 to 323 of the Constitution.
Q157. When was the Public Service Commission set up for the first time in India and who was the Chairman?
1.10.1926 ... Sir Ross Barker.
Q158. When from the Union Public Service Commission came to be known so?
1950 ... after the promulgation of the Constitution of India.
Q159. After independence, University Education Commission was formed under the chairmanship of ....
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
Q160. The major outcome of the recommendations of the University Education Commission of Dr. S.Radhakrishnan is....
University Grants Commission ... December 1953.
Q161. University Grants Commission is headquartered in Delhi. Where are the regional offices?
Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkatta, Bhopal, Guwahati and Bengaluru.
Q162. Which commission was formed to inquire and report on the rape and custodial death of Thangjam Manorama Devi of Manipur by the armed forces men?
Upendra Commission ... 2004.
