Committees

CHAIRMAN - ISSUE EXAMINED

Raghuram G Rajan - Financial Sector Reforms
Madhava Menon - Reforming Crimininal Justice System
Justice Malimath - Reforms in Justice System
Nanavati Mehra - Godhra Train
V S Banerjee - Godhra Rail Fire
Srikrishna - Bombay Riots
Liberhan - Babri Masjid
Jas Raj - Gujjair
Barsal - Gujjar Violence
Sam Piroda - National Knowledge Commission
Sachar - Social Economic and Educational Status of Muslims
Rangarajan - Finanacial Inclusion
Mehra Panel - Sub-quota within SC Quota (Madiga Community, AP)
RK Raghavan - Ragging
Valliathan - Functioning of AIIMS
Ranganath Mishra - Religious and Lingustic Minorities
Arjun Sengupta - Unorganised Sector
Mashelkar - Patent Law, Fuel
P Rama Rao - review DRDO
Shinglu - Narmada Displaced
C Rangarajan - Development of J&K
Pathank - Food for Oil
Jeevan Reddy - Armed Forces (Special Provisions act of Manipur)
KP Narasimhan - Law on Insurance
Iqbal Ahmed Sardari - Office of Profit
KT Thomas - Damage to Public Property, Leaders of the group liable for Damage
Fali S Nariman - Media Coverages on Bandhs
Kishore Chadra Deo - Cash For Vote Scandal
Renke - Consession to Denotified Tribes
BK Chaturvedi - Oil & Natural Gas Sector
JK Irani - Companies Bill 2008
MM Punchi - Centre State Relations
Pranab Mukerjee - Pay scale of Defence Personnel
Abid Hussain - Small Scale Industries
Naresh Chandra - Development of Aviation sector
Amit Mitra - FM Radio
Goiporia - Consumer Service Importance
Hanumant - Fertilizers
Abijit Sen - Food , Relation between Inflation and Futur Trading
Tapapore - Capital Account Covertibility
Percy Mistry - Fuller Account
Lindgon - Student Election Reforms
Soli Sarobjee - Police Reforms
Narasimhan - Banking Reforms
Prabir Sen Gupta - Raksha Udyog Ratna
Rajamannar - Centre State Relations (By TN)

Some Facts

As on 5^th March 2009

Director of Intelligence Bureau (India): Mr Rajiv Mathur IPS

Notes on IB: The Intelligence Bureau is India's internal intelligence agency and reputedly the world's oldest intelligence agency. It was recast as the Central Intelligence Bureau in 1947 under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The reason for the perception may be due to the fact that, in 1885, Major General Sir Charles MacGregor was appointed Quartermaster General and head of the Intelligence Department for the British Indian Army at Simla. The objective then was to monitor Russian troop deployments in Afghanistan, fearing a Russian invasion of British India through the North-West during the late 19th century.In 1909, the Indian Political Intelligence Office was established in England in response to the development of Indian anarchist activities, which came to be called the Indian Political Intelligence (IPI) from 1921. This was a state-run surveillance and monitoring agency. The IPI was run jointly by the India Office and the Government of India and reported jointly to the Secretary of the Public and Judicial Department of the India Office, and the Director of Intelligence Bureau (DIB) in India, and maintained close contact with Scotland Yard and MI5. Recently, the private American Intelligence agency STRATFOR has listed the Indian Intelligence Bureau as one of the world's 5 Best Intelligence agencies.

STRATFOR

George Friedman is the founder, chief intelligence officer, and CEO of the company.

Fred Burton is Stratfor's Vice President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security.

CBI

Director: Mr Ashwini Kumar

Founder Director: Mr D P Kohli

Established: 1^st April 1963

Function: The CBI is the premier investigating police agency in India.

CBI investigations have a major impact on the political and economic life of the nation. The following broad categories of criminal cases are handled by the CBI:

1. Cases of corruption and fraud committed by public servants of all Central Govt. Departments, Central Public Sector Undertakings and Central Financial Institutions.

2. Economic crimes, including bank frauds, financial frauds, Import Export & Foreign Exchange violations, large-scale smuggling of narcotics, antiques, cultural property and smuggling of other contraband items etc.

3. Special Crimes, such as cases of terrorism, bomb blasts, sensational homicides, kidnapping for ransom and crimes committed by the mafia/the underworld.

It is also the nodal police agency in India which coordinates investigation on behalf of Interpol Member countries.

Under: Department of Personnel and Training

Child Agency: Interpol National Central Bureau India branch

Interpol (1923)

President: Mr Khoo Boon Hui (Singapore)

Secretary General: Mr Ronald Noble (USA)

HQ: Lyon, France (187 Member coutries)

Non-members:

Samoa

Palau

Solomon Islands

Kiribati

Federated States of Micronesia

Tuvalu

Vanuatu

North Korea

RAW

Director: Mr K C Verma

Founder Director: Mr R N Kao

Established: 21^st September 1968

Function: Collection of external intelligence, counter-terrorism and covert operations. In addition, it is also responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons in order to advise Indian foreign policymakers

Under: PMO

Child Agency: The Aviation Research Centre

The Radio Research Center

Electronics & Tech. Services.

National Tech. Facilities Organisation

Special Frontier Force

CBDT Chairman: Mr S S N Moorthy

Persons held Chairman post during 2008:

P K Mishra

R S Mathoda

N B Singh

CBEC Chairman: Mr P C Jha

COFEPOSA (the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act) is Indian law passed in 1974 for conservation of foreign exchange and preventing smuggling.

2^nd ARC Reports

1. 'Right to Information : Master Key to Good Governance', June 2006

2. Unlocking Human Capital: Entitlements and Governance - a case study

3. ARC-crisis management

4. 'Ethics in Governance'

5. PUBLIC ORDER

6. Local Governance

7. 'Capacity Building for Conflict Resolution'

8. COMBATTING TERRORISM

9. Social Capital-A shared Destiny

10. Refurbishing of Personnel Administration – Scaling New Heights

11. PROMOTING e-GOVERNANCE : The SMART Way

12. Citizen Centric Administration

CHAIRPERSON: Mr Veerappa Moily

MEMBERS: Mr V Ramachandran

Mr S P Mukherjee

Mr AH Kalro

Dr Jayaprakash Narayan

Ms Vineeta Rai