Friday, 25 October 2013

Important Bank PO Exam - Latest Committees



Committee Set Up On Uttarakhand Floods : The committee will be headed by AK Ganju (Chairman, Ganga Flood Control committees Commission, Patna).

JS Mathur committee : to revise Newspaper Advertisement Rates. The committee will also look into different parameters on the basis of which advertisements are issued. JS Mathur is the Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

K. Ratna Prabha : Committee on indecent depiction of women in media.
Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart’s lobbying activities to enter India

Mukul Mudgal Committee: The Union Sports Ministry on 6 April 2011 formed a committee, headed by Justice Mukul Mudgal, retired Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana to fine-tune the draft National Sports Development Bill. The committee will also include badminton legend Prakash Padukone and former sprinter Ashwini Nachappa, who is also the Vice-President of Cleansports India.

MBN Rao Committee: The government has formed a six-member committee to draw up a blueprint for setting up India’s first women’s bank.

SK Srivastava Committee: The Central Government has constituted a panel to formulate a policy on public-private partnership framework with state-owned Coal India Ltd. as one of the partners to increase coal output. The development comes close on the heels of Finance Minister P. Chidambaram stating in his budget speech that there was a need to devise such a policy to reduce the country’s increasing dependence on imported coal.

K M Chandrasekhar Committee – The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has set up a committee under former cabinet secretary KM Chandrashekhar to standardise and unify the rules regarding foreign investments made under various routes into the capital markets.
According to Sebi chairman UK Sinha, the committee will simplify and standardise the norms regarding investments into the capital markets by all overseas entities such as foreign institutional investors, foreign venture capital investors (FVCIs), qualified financial/ institutional investors (QFIs) and NRIs, and also strengthen surveillance over them.

Arvind Mayaram Committee – The Arvind Mayaram committee, set up to liberalise the country's foreign direct investment (FDI) policy, has recommended nine sectors be categorised as those where 'Indian ownership' and 'control' will be mandatory.
 Janakiraman Committee – To investigate the security transactions of the bank

Sitakant Mahapatra committee- for inclusion of Bhojpuri language in eighth schedule of constitution

N R Narayana Murthy committee – for evaluation of corporate sector participation in Higher Education.

C Rangarajan committee – The Prime Minister-appointed Rangarajan Committee has suggested mandating a price of domestically-produced natural gas at an average of international hub prices and cost of imported LNG instead of the present mechanism of market discovery.

- for poverty scale estimates in the country

MB Shah committee – The Government has extended the tenure of the Justice M. B. Shah Commission, which is enquiring into illegal iron ore and manganese ore mining, giving it time until October to submit its final report.

N Rangachary committee – to examine taxation policies for I.T. sector. the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said that a four-member panel headed by former CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) Chairman N. Rangachary would hold consultations with stakeholders and government departments concerned to finalise the approach to taxation of ‘Development Centres’ and suggest appropriate measures.

Parthasarathi Shome committee – Parthasarathi Shome committee formed to look into the controversial GAAR (General Anti-Avoidance Rules) provisions and address the thorny issues to the satisfaction of foreign investors and all other stakeholders

Deepak Parekh committee – for Financing Infrastructure sector 
Naresh Chandra committee – 14 member task force on security issues 

Bhandari Committee – Reconstruction of RRBs 
RS Gujral Committee – suggest measures to boost MSME exports

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